Gathering In Light (Page 63)

May 3, 2005 7:30:25 AM

Yesterday’s blog was a little more extreme than i had intended – I realized this after my loving wife pointed it out to me. My paraphrase of what the Psalm means in today’s world is heavy handed and tip my hand to theological leanings. One reason why it is

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May 2, 2005 8:03:50 AM scripture

today i read this as i was praying through Psalm 41. “Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble. The Lord protects them and keeps them alive; they are called happy in the land. You do not give them up to the

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April 25, 2005 7:18:13 AM

what a weekend. starting with thursday i helped a buddy shoot his film for an LA wide event called 168. He asked me to shoot the whole thing but about 2 hours into it he took the camera and did it himself – so that was kind of a bummer. I

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April 17, 2005 10:08:45 PM

things: thoughts and mainly critiques. 1. what is my faith without it being radical? the modern day readers who find the Scriptures comforting and warming to the spirit have narrowed God down to a do-it-yourself spirituality – to a network television program about angels and miracles. when i read the end

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frosty

i just read a robert frost poem “reluctance” which was really good, it talked about seasons coming to an end, and how we are reluctant to let seasons (and loves) come to an end – that it is a part of humanity to be reluctant. i thought it was good. anyways

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I am a human being I am a White man and I bare the scares of those before me I am a critical person born to drug-doing, free-loving hippies I am a dreamer and I dream in my films I am a friend who wants to befriend the unlovely I

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Well this comes about two weeks after I put the first of these online discussions. Many haven’t yet written anything but that is okay I am going to do this a little longer, hoping to find some who are are interested in simple reflection. The passage below is the

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The Blind Man I have been thinking lately about doing something like what we used to do back in Canton for Bible study. It was biblical study based off the Quaker idea that all people are endowed with the Spirit of God to a greater or lesser extent depending on

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Useless in the kingdom what is theology if it doesn’t help humanity? we often make a theology, because that is what it is, human made, and render it divine. the problem with that is then that we make our human made theologies the the forms to which we must

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Talking Theology with James

Jim, Emily and I kicked it today in LA. We went through echo park, silverlake, los feliz, visiting clothing stores, eating good food, etc. Then Jim and I went to watch RK play in Hollywood. we had so much fun watching their new show and hanging with the guys afterwards,

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EB696″ cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2> What Napoleon Dynamite Character Are You? Name Age Favorite Color Choose One Flippin Sweet Heck Yeah Vote For Pedro You Guys Are So Retarded Idiots *Heavy Breath* Moon Boots Ligers You Are Rex How Much Of A Retard Are You? – 43% This cool quiz

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coming out of the muck

out of the muck im getting through. things are looking good today. I am coming back, up the long hall, still swinging, still crawling along. i am like S. Weaver in Aliens, or Arnold in terminator. Well not really, but it fun to sound tough. Actually things are on the

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lie, cheat…

dantecutoutfuzz5 Originally uploaded by cwdaniels. fess up, we all lie and cheat at some point, its just that not all get caught. fortunately most of us do, and that is when we learn to stop all that lying and cheating.

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Nouwen and Silence

I read this morning. It is working on me and is true for me as well as for Nouwen. Lord I need to quiet myself. “Many people ask me to speak, but nobody as yet has invited me for silence. Still, I realize that the more I speak, the more

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A comment i posted on some site who unfortunately is still caught in the patriarchial mode of antiquity. I am sorry that I am somewhat hot headed about this issue – but it is one of the major concerns i have for the church who continue to downgrade women’s callings,

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a shot from the movie

a shot from the movie Originally uploaded by cwdaniels. i could go for one of these right now! but it wouldn’t help my very distracted head. click on picture to the right to see more pictures from shoot.

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questions?

100_4542 Originally uploaded by cwdaniels. today we captured 2 of the 3 hours of footage we have for liars and cheaters, overall i am really pleased. I see the mistakes I made as the director, and have written down notes on what i can learn from this experience already,

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runaway

100_4456 Originally uploaded by cwdaniels. Yesterday an Amtrak train crashed here in LA killing at least 5 people, Bush recently gave his second inaugural speech, the Tsunami happened in India killing 150,000 people just a few weeks ago, I finished my shooting my film last weekend, Matt Taflan

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Liars and Cheaters

100_4601 Originally uploaded by cwdaniels. See other shots from the behind the scenes of the film by clicking on the picture and going to “cwdaniels’ film stream” I felt like I needed to get this all out tonight, or at least the first of a few spillings of the

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the flux of life finds a resting point in silence

the flux of life finds a resting point in silence Originally uploaded by cwdaniels. Life is influx. The faces keep changing. Memories keep fading, while new roads we travel. i don’t see the future as clear as I would like to. I am like the blind beggar, wondering where

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Wallis on Bad Theology

emily and i are watching this special on Bush and his faith on PBS. I was so happy that Jim Wallis from Sojourners was on there, because there was at least one person there saying look people this is “bad theology.” There is no such thing as righteous war, there

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Road maps to my soul

"I am the woman with no head" Originally uploaded by cwdaniels. I just started using flickr.com, it is a pretty sweet site. I heard about it through macworld. you might like to try it out – it is mac friendly which is the biggest plus. This is a

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To the theme of Psalm 16 – by Joel Short

Madness and kicking it anabaptist style: We just got done playing our fuller flag tournament. Sparkle motion lost in its second game. we fought hard and went down swinging, what more could you want in a loss? Finals are only 6 more days. then freedom – well at least for 3

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Getting to “Over Coffee”

There are three weeks left in this insane qtr – Five classes is too much to do in grad school people. I stayed up last night until 1:00 am which is really freaking late for me – I usually and falling asleep by 10. We get up at 6am so that

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Americans, Rights, and Voting

“MY Right” I like millions of others voted today, the painless process of excersizing “my right.” there was a sense of satisfaction every time i clicked that little “inkavote” pen. i did wonder who keeps thinking of these out-dated forms of voting. I was glad that it was in a