zephyrofgod | (no subject)

It's snowing.

Here come 4-8 inches of the stuff.

YAY.

ick.

Oh, yes.

I'm in the process of getting Valentines ready to go for my co-workers. Any ideas for fun and funky-cool ideas? I was going to take a Coke can and futz with it so that it looked really neat, but more and more thinking isn't helping that idea. I'm also going to make sugar cookies for everyone.

I'm giving chocolate up for Lent. Yes, I know. I'm not Catholic. But it's honestly the best thing I've ever done and makes me realise how dependent I really am on God. And being surrounded by it at work, well, 'nuff said, yo.

I'm also going on this exploration of what it means to be a Celtic Christian. I've been listening to Eden's Bridge, Michael Card's Starkindler and Poiema (which I have fallen in love with, honestly. Yes, both of them), Maire Brennan (Enya's sister), and John Michael Talbot's music. It's only one stop for me. After music, I think I'll look at the art, like the Book of Kells. And then into the Irish, Scots, and British theologians of our time. I have one last empty paper journal to write in. If anyone has a lead that they think I should look at, I'd be very much obliged to look there. Thanks.

Z

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I don't think doing something for Lent is a Roman Catholic thing. I'm an Anglican and we are usually encouraged to give something up or take something on. I used to periodically attend an Orthodox church and they do things for Lent too.

What do you think of Maire Brennan? I've never bought her Cds, but read someone describing her solo work as being like Enya, but more overtly Christian.

My two favourite Celtic Christian books are "Celtic Worship" by Ray Simpson (a collection of prayers, liturgies, etc) and "Anam cara" by John O'Donohue.

And we're getting rain here, but it's supposed to go below zero tonight so that it will all freeze and be slippery tomorrow. I thought you lived in the Southern U.S. You aren't supposed to get snow.

Being raised Baptist, I thought lent was something you found in a clothes dryer, until I got to high school and started hanging around the Catholics and Episcopalians. Rednecks ...

Hey, check out Maire Brennan's album "Perfect Time." Beautiful!

Read the Nag-Hammadi Library, or just the Gospel of Thomas.

It gives you a good idea of what Christianity really was before the Nicene Creed, the Roman conversion, the advent of orthodoxy, and 1700 years of terrible edits for political purposes.