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| just arrived and now i'm leavingwell, i've had my dreams for a primo blog fulfilled.. i fumbled my way through the setup of a wordpress blog
that can be accessed here: http://davidwierzbicki.com/blog/
nothing there just yet, but it will soon be very full...
bye!!!
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| sing alongSing! Sing! Sing!
a lovely few minutes this morning singing to God along with the sales guys and gals.
I'm tired though.
I was here until 12:30 last night. Got into bed around 1:30 and had to get up at 7. Ick.
on an unrelated note...
I want a shiny, fancy Typepad blog! Maybe it isn't necessary. Maybe if I do a bit of css-ing i can make xanga look just a sparkly.. i don't know..
back into order forms now!
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| tealights in the officetrying to create a less fluorescent mood for my late night working.
The laser printer is running off the last couple copies of the sales book for the reps to rip through tomorrow.
I have to be in a bit early to kick the sales conference off with a bit of singing. I'm glad i get to be involved, but i'm going to be tired! Fortunately there will be an overflowing table of conference snacks tomorrow to help lift my weary body and soul. Well, I guess the singing will lift my soul and the snacks will lift my body.
Just finished More Ready Than You Realize by McLaren.
This is an immensely helpful book. It is a book that makes you want to put it down and start up conversation with someone, and i believe it really equipped me to do so, even though there was no steps or Romans Road or anything of that schematic drawing, modernist thinking.
Great stuff.
Tired.
'night.
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| shall we dance?I read through A New Kind of Christian in record time... I am hooked. I've for a long time been a very unreliable reader. A chapter here and there... forget about the book... find a new one.... a chapter there or here... forget about it again.. find the original book again.. look at the covers... try to remember what it was about again and why i thought i had been interested in reading it in the first place... partly i didn't really believe it as possible to finish a book.. I would look at the 200-300 pages remaining and think that if i couldnt do it in 3 days i would be defeated... I am glad i got past that now
That book saved me this week. Not so much by its message, although that was amazing and exactly what i need right now, , (i'll get into that)_____ but the real reason it saved me is the insane work schedule i had... I made very my daily schedule very simple.. here it is... I get up at 7, 7.30, I shower and make coffee... I read for a half an hour .. i go to work .. i work until 9 or 10 pm. .. i come home, make some food and read until midnight. (which ended up being more like 1 every night.) I started reading A New Kind of Xian monday night after a very engaging conversation with timmy on msn. we were talking about... basically "which came (comes) first, Jesus or the law" ... hehe.. but that got me thinking again about postmodern christianity.. something that until this week had always been just pretty thoughts and ideas... something i had left behind in my days at art college. .. where it mattered. where postmodernism wasn't just a theory.. it was LIFE. but ya.. since i've moved back to browntown and gotten a cozy job i have gotten back into comfy modernity. not now. i'm an alien again. thanks to mr mclaren. thankyou.. seriously.
so, now i've eaten up the conversations and back-and-forth emails in A New Kind of Xian and have moved on to another McLaren book , More Ready Than You Realize (Evangelism as Dance in the PostModern Matrix).. .. awesome title by the way ;)
incredible book... I had an amazing talk with our music/ministry pastor this morning at a cafe.. voicing concerns, trying to work together, support each other, .. it was a great hour spent together. encouraging.. but i was trying to get across my ideas about how our church has historically been about believing and THEN belonging... i didn't have sufficient words to express how i feel this needs to be reversed if we are ever going to be accepted in the community (our church has just started a work in a small town nearby that has a long history of mistrust of the insular church--and i attend and serve musically in that community)
mclaren deals with this quite beautifully in his book.. i'm going to pass it along to the leadership once i am done with it.. .i'm sure that some of them have read it already,.. but i am convinced that we need to put it into action. no more membership before service... bleckl;!!
my wonderful fiance is currently cooking up something yummy for our passover lunch at the church tomorrow. carrots and yams and honey. smells good.. and pizza for us tonight.. she is amazing!!!!
we went for a long walk to the grocery store this afternoon in the beautful spring sunshine.
time to go eat!
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| Post-Hard to believe I hadn't opened this one before... The conversations in McLaren's book are mirroring my own questions so completely. It is quite remarkable.
edit: not the exact questions, but the attitude, frustration and search for light behind the questions.
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