tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20657061812392652202024-03-14T07:51:18.794-04:00living is simple.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065706181239265220.post-1704130622626094722012-03-07T16:18:00.001-05:002012-03-07T16:18:35.891-05:00"Leaf" Your Name.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Of several friends planning to wed this May 19th, one commissioned me to make a "thumbprint tree guestbook" as inspired by many on Pinterest. She requested a tree swing, which added a sweet touch! I was a little unsure if I could handle the task at first, but it worked out pretty well!</div>
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Congrats, Mark & Michelle!</div>
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Your wedding day draws nearer and nearer... :)</div>
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Drew plans to graduate as a super senior this year! Cheers!</div>
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Living as a young adult innately requires self-examination. We are constantly shedding our beliefs/values/patterns of living and integrating new as we transition from childhood to adulthood. To top it all off, we live in a culture of dramatic and rapid change - technology, science, economics, and immediate access to information. Navigation is not simple; it can be downright confusing.<br />
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Though I cannot begin to adequately explain the book in a concise manner, here's the gist. The <a href="http://www.barna.org/">Barna Group</a> is a research group based in California that examines the "intersections between faith and culture." Their lastest book, written by David Kinnaman, examines the disconnect of young adults and the church at present. He names us "Mosiacs" - those born between the years 1884-2002.<br />
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They group young adults with Christian backgrounds into three categories: Nomads, Prodigals, and Exiles. (However, they also emphasize that every person's story is different and unique. These are simply broad categories formed from examining common themes and trends.)<br />
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<b>"Nomads</b><i> are described as persons who "wander or drift away from active involvement with a church or faith community." Defining themes:</i><br />
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<li><i>They still describe themselves as Christian and believe personal involvement in a Christian community is optional.</i></li>
<li><i>The importance of faith has faded.</i></li>
<li><i>Most are not angry or hostile toward Christianity.</i></li>
<li><i>Many are spiritual experimentalists.</i></li>
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<b>Prodigals</b><i> are those who "give up on the faith of their childhood." It doesn't suggest they'll return to faith, just that they don't consider themselves "Christian" anymore. Defining themes:</i><br />
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<li><i>They feel varying levels of resentment towards Christians and Christianity.</i></li>
<li><i>They have disavowed returning to church.</i></li>
<li><i>They have moved on from Christianity.</i></li>
<li><i>Their regrets, if any, usually center on their parents.</i></li>
<li><i>They feel as if they have broken out of constraints. They experience leaving at freedom.</i></li>
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<b>Exiles</b><i> are those who "feel stuck between the comfortable, predicable world of church and the 'real world' they feel called to influence." The author compares exiles to Daniel - those attempting to be faithful to their faith heritage while trying to live in "Babylon" (new culture). Defining themes:</i><br />
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<li><i>Not inclined to be separate from "the world." They long for spirital loves to be connected, to be </i>whole<i>, and to make sense.</i></li>
<li><i>They are skeptical of institutions but are not wholly disengaged from them.</i></li>
<li><i>Young exiles sense God moving outside the walls of the church.</i></li>
<li><i>They are not disallusioned with tradition; they are frustrated with slick or shallow expressions of faith.</i></li>
<li><i>They have not found faith to be instructive to their calling or gifts.</i></li>
<li><i>They struggle when other Christians question their motives.</i></li>
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I would probably call myself an exile. Throughout college and after, I have struggled to navigate connection with a faith community in a meaningful way. As a kid and teen, I was fully engaged in the Philly suburb independent church my Dad pastored for ten years. I had a head full of hope and was bred for leadership, ministry, and community. It still runs through my veins, but today's image of my faith different, more fragmented than 6 years ago when I graduated high school. I went to a pretty liberal Mennonite University, traveled to the Middle East for several months, learned to walk with my brother when he came out, started seriously dating a dashingly handsome and charming Mennonite, and I became a nurse (... going to church on a consistent basis? ha!). </div>
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I am wary of the church in many ways. These days, I ask more questions than I give answers. The world we live and work in looks so different from the church at times that it's hard to reconcile the two. So when I read a few pages from this book, I was pulled in because it's hard research of exactly what my generation is feeling and thinking and doing about church today.<br />
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I'm curious to hear about other people's thoughts on this book, so if you need something interesting to read and talk about, do it! I'm all ears.<br />
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First, craft time! I made some scrabble coasters, and I think they turned out pretty snazzy!</div>
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Flowers from Ben + Kate's wedding:</div>
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More goodies from Kate's wedding. It's officially fall.</div>
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I found the two frames at Mercy House Thrift shop and gave them a face lift. </div>
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The wall hanging on the left is a Ten Thousand Villages find - Indonesia!</div>
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A few weeks ago we celebrated Kate's Bachelorette Weekend all over the Shenandoah - partying in Harrisonburg, wine tasting in Bridgewater, and dining in Stanton. Here are a few snippets from <a href="http://www.bluestonevineyard.com/">Bluestone Vineyard</a>. </div>
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Kate and Hanna: a dynamic duo. These two have so much sisterly love for each other, and there is so much to admire about their relationship. If this picture doesn't demonstrate their special sister friendship, I don't know what does.</div>
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And... Hanna is beautiful, clearly.</div>
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I am so happy for Kate, the friend who speaks my heart language and has literally lived with me through the ups and downs of 5 years. Ben, you're one lucky dude!</div>
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That's right. Ooh la la. This weekend we celebrated Kate's last days as single lady. Come October 8th, she'll be marrying her best friend and love, Ben. Congrats, Kate - we love you so!</div>
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Am I <i>really </i>doing this? Will this make or break? How soon can I afford another cat to snuggle with? Where should I make my home church? Will I be a good oncology nurse... a <i>really </i>good nurse? What will the next week, month, and year bring? How do I even <i>buy</i> a car? Where do I invest myself in my spare time?<br />
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Time to grow up, Kelly, and be an adult.<br />
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Dad and I enjoy some pumpkin Kline's ice cream as he leaves me with my Great-Grandpa's 1990 Buick Century - a borrowed, classy ride until I purchase my own car. He takes my hand before leaving and prays with me. For the ability to stop and be present. For wisdom and discernment in all relationships and choices. For the ability to determine what is <i>good</i> and what is <i>best</i>. It is a prayer of a daughter and her father to our Abba - the hearts of child and parent to the heart of God. How beautiful and wonderful. I am so thankful and grateful for the love of my earthly father and my Heavenly Father.<br />
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Here goes everything.<br />
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<i>Hey, when are you gonna stand</i><br />
<i>Stop looking over your shoulder</i><br />
<i>See, there's a sun in the sky</i><br />
<i>And a moon that will take us 'til morning</i><br />
<i>When are you gonna stand</i><br />
<i>Stop and begin this moment</i><br />
<i>Hey, Let go</i><br />
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She's desperate for anything to cover her wounds.<br />
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Her feet are covered in dirt. I take some soapy gauze to the caked on layers of the day. One half of the foot is miraculously clean, and the other half quite dirty and smelly. She knows they are awfully dirty - "dirtier than <i>boy's</i> feet!" But all she cares about are the blisters.<br />
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I clean, apply ointment, and place bigger and better band-aids (I hope) on her aching ten-year-old feet.<br />
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Fixed right up,<br />
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still wearing the shoes that have rubbed her dirty little feet raw.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065706181239265220.post-75892872394600977852010-06-27T18:44:00.011-04:002011-09-27T18:22:52.952-04:00clean hands & pure hearts<div style="text-align: center;">
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The charcoal outlines of limbs, branches, and tree trunks are glittering with the activity of glowing bugs. Serene - and yet still chaotic.<br />
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This evening, we eat with hands tied to each other. We find each other blind-folded and take trust walks. In all this, I realize, though seemingly obvious, that I am here to serve others this summer. In this community, I am called to sacrifice things I wouldn't normally otherwise give up: Freedom of independent living, sleep, dignity, and the list goes on.<br />
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Lord, I DO want to be in your community this summer. I want to love uninhibited, give with vigor, and learn with curiousity and heart.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hey now, this is my desire</span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Consume me like a fire, 'cause I just want something beautiful</span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To touch me, I know that I'm in reach</span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">'Cause I am down on my knees, I'm waiting for something beautiful</span></span></i></b></span></div>
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Your love is extravagant</div>
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Your friendship, it is intimate</div>
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I feel i'm moving to the rhythm of Your grace</div>
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Your fragrance is intoxicating in the secret place</div>
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Cause Your love is extravagant</div>
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Spread wide in the arms of Christ</div>
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There's a love that covers sin</div>
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No greater love have I ever known;</div>
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You considered me a friend</div>
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Capture my heart again</div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">R</span></span></b>un with arms open, eyes shut.<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></span></b>im to<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">D</span></span></b>ream<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">U</span></span></b>ntil forever.<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></span></b>dopt all words which mean "to live."<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></span></b>uck all hopes<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></span></b>nto your pocket;<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">O</span></span></b>h, lets hope the currency will make<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-family: Calibri;">1 Corinthians 13 speaks about love, and for some reason, I feel it fits my experience this week's clinical experience in the hospital well...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love is patient</i>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Love is patient with clients who demand three biscuits for breakfast against medical advice. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love is kind</i> . </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Love is kind to patients in physical and spiritual distress. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It does not envy</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it does not boast.</i> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Love does not boast about superior situation, status, or health. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It is not proud. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i>Love leans in to wipe up bottoms and messes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It is not rude. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i>It is not rude when others are rude to you. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It is not self-seeking. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i>Love recognizes that no task and no one is “below” you. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It is not easily angered. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i>Love is not easily angered by the demands or statements of coworkers or families. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It keeps no records of wrongs. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i>Love does not keep a record of how many years a patient has smoked or drank to the detriment of health. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.</i> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Love rejoices when patients are presented with the truth, with answers, and with value.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It always protects.</i> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Love always protects the patient with little mobility and a habit of crawling out of bed. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">It<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> always trusts. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i>Love trusts that at the end of the day, you have done your best.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It always hopes,</i> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">even when others have no hope.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It always perseveres,</i> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">even without all the answers<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love never fails…</i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0