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Those of you who are long time readers will remember Dana Palomino. She is one of the clearest examples I have ever seen of a life completely transformed by Jesus Christ.
Dana will be getting married in June of 2009 and has asked me to walk her down the aisle in place of her father. Her father, at this point, is unable to obtain a U.S. visa in order to attend the ceremony in Oklahoma.
Dana Palamino from Ryan Bush on Vimeo.
Remember the New Year’s Resolutions I made way back when? “Participate in Significant Celebration” was one of them. Over the past year I’ve put some energy and creativity into rethinking significant dates (Christmas and Easter, for example). Amidst that rethinking we initiated last year what I hope will be a lifelong family tradition, the Thanksgiving Tree.
It’s amazing what happens when we make an abstract idea tangible. The Thanksgiving Tree is our reminder to be grateful. Every time we think of something for which we are thankful, we write it down and hang it on the tree. It’s filling up fast!
Once Thanksgiving Day arrives, we’ll take all the cards down and read them. You can read the ones from last year here.
David Cole helping us find a good tree. We decided against the Banana tree. Mainly because they attract monkeys.
Supposed conversation between President Bush and Bin Laden as related to me per a homeless man at McMath Public Library.
Bin Laden: I’m gonna take over the world.
President Bush: No you’re not.
Bin Laden: You blamed 9/11 on me.
President Bush: Well, that’s my game.
So, that’s how it went down . . .
It was Polycarp’s humility and proper perspective on himself in relation to Christ that put him in a posture that, in the face of sure death, enabled him to boldly say “For eighty-six years I have been his servant, and he has never done me wrong: how can I blaspheme my king who saved me?”
I ran across this at the beginning of this public domain book. Pretty bizarre, huh?
The other day I sat Sophia on the counter so she could watch me brush my teeth (she’s just kind of quirky like that). Then she asked me a question (and, keep in mind, I was fully clothed at the time):
Do you have your panties on Daddy?
I think it was a trick question.
Water Colors from Ryan Bush on Vimeo.
That’s my unbiased opinion . . .
It is not enough to try to do a good thing for the wrong reason.
Free music here.
82. To wit: — “Why does not the pope empty purgatory, for the sake of holy love and of the dire need of the souls that are there, if he redeems an infinite number of souls for the sake of miserable money with which to build a Church? The former reasons would be most just; the latter is most trivial.”
On October 31, 1517, Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
Christians must be critical of the Marxist state; but they must not be so in such a fashion that they confirm the continuation of the injustices of the capitalist order . . .
Justo Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity
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