Friday, January 31, 2003
Prayer and Answered Prayer
For the past three years, I have been ill with fibromyalgia. I had it before--but i wasn't so bad that I couldn't function. Three years ago I was finally diagnosed and started treatment. A year ago I went to a rheumatologist who believes that fibromyalgia is caused by poor sleep. He discovered that...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2003
False Guilt and Real Guilt
Whenever I'm sick I feel guilty. That is stupid. I'm obviously not guilty of doing anything wrong when I'm sick. Sometimes I can function a little when I'm sick. Often I can't. However many women especially mothers force themselves to act as if they are well when they are sick. My mother was one of...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003
New Testament Morality
Protestants don't teach much about Christian morality in a very systematic way. I'm writing a book about my spiritual journey and relating it to Christian theology and relevant Bible studies. One of the areas where I feel the most lost is Christian ethics. In seminary I felt like I was supposed to...
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Monday, January 27, 2003
Catholic Spirituality
Both Episcopalians and Catholics have a very vibrant spirituality. Methodists do to some degree, but Free Methodists have almost none. For them it is just the scripture, prayer, and going to church. Spirituality can be dangerous. Meditation can make some people become mentally ill. Spirituality can...
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Sunday, January 26, 2003
Today is Sunday
and like many Christians I went to church. Today instead of preaching about God answering prayers for a new church building--the pastor talked about God changing your life. The best part of the sermon was when a young man who just got out of prison--came and testified how God has changed his life....
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Inviting a homeless person into you home
changes your lifestyle. Before Sam and Julie came to live with us--we went out to eat a lot. My husband doesn't like cooking that much and I suffered from fibromyalgia and had little energy to cook. After Sam and Julie came--we knew that it felt uncomfortable for us to always pay--unless we went out...
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Friday, January 24, 2003
During this time I spent a lot of time thinking about sustainable living.
I read quite a few books about simplicity. The problem was that the majority of the intentional communities are quite expensive. What I liked about living in England was that our family left behind all our junk and only took some clothing and a few books. We lived in a furnished flat with only the...
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Thursday, January 23, 2003
A Homeless Shelter
Two of my friends and I were considering buying property and building a homeless shelter. There was a house that was for sale that was quite large with a two bedroom apartment upstairs and a huge kitchen and about six large bedrooms. The only problem it had was that the roof leaked. My plan was for...
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A New Method of Working with the Homeless
The one who stayed in our group was a man who was raised as a Communist and who attended the Unity, Unitarian and Friends meeting. He did not consider himself to be a Christian. He was the reason why our church would not allow the singles meeting to grow by inviting new attendees to the group....
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003
During this time, my husband was hired to work in England.
Having internet access helped to find a church. I wasn't able to work in the church--but I did volunteer in a coffee shop in a church across from the main shopping center on the high street. Most of the visitors were older people who wanted to save money for coffee. A few were homeless or lonely...
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