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It's been a while since I posted this. I think it deserves another look.
… and this one from Downey, California.
… and Market Square in Knoxville, Tennessee
Catholic in the Public Square
It's been a while since I posted this. I think it deserves another look.
… and this one from Downey, California.
… and Market Square in Knoxville, Tennessee
The Catholic Patheosi are writing about why we chose to stay in the doomed Catholic Church.
I mean, it's been in all the news lately that the Catholic Church is on the way out. We're supposed to be over and done for, or at least going down for the count. Catholic teachings are irrelevant to the world today, or so we're told.
So why would anyone stay in the Catholic Church? Is staying Catholic a twisted desire for irrelevance and being out of step with the world? Do we stay because we have nothing better to do with that hour each week?
Here, in three sentences, is why I stay.
1. Christ in the Eucharist called me to the Catholic Church.
2. Christ is in the Eucharist.
3. Christ has not told me to leave.
That's it.
To the best of my ability, and according to the grace that I am given, I follow Jesus Christ and Him crucified. If you want to find Jesus Christ and Him crucified, go to a Catholic Church. He's there, on all the altars of all the Catholic Churches in all the world.
The priest may ride with Jesse James, and the bishop may be as confused as the priest. The people in the seats around you may be all kinds of sinners. You may be all kinds of sinner yourself. But Jesus Christ the Lord is there — body, blood, soul and divinity — on that altar. And He's there for you.
You can reach out and touch Him. You can partake of Him. You can be blessed, healed and loved by Him in a concrete, direct and completely reliable way, just by going to a Catholic Church and taking communion.
You hold out your hands and Christ is laid on your upright palm. You taste the wine and the blood of God Who died for you enters into you. You partake of His Passion, and you share in His triumph. He rose so that you may live forever. He died so that you can enter into God's great ocean of mercy and forgiveness. He cleansed you with that blood you taste, saved you with the flesh hidden in bread on your palm.
I am not leaving the Catholic Church, because Christ in the Eucharist called me to the Church. I am not leaving the Catholic Church, because Christ is in the Eucharist and I partake of Him and His blessings in communion. I stay in the Catholic Church because my Lord and my God put me here and He has not told me to leave.
I chose Christ, and He is there on all the altars of all the Catholic Churches in all the world.
I volunteered to host my book club at my house tonight.
Then, life piled on and I made a decision to move the book club meeting to a local restaurant. My fellow book-clubbers were not only gracious about it, they seemed delighted with the prospect of dining while we talk.
I could, if I had been stupid, have soldiered through, putting together snacks and polishing my house so I could play hostess. But that would have been, as I said, stupid.
I had plans to write a blog post today about a topical issue, taking my own slant on the subject. I'd done some research, filed the links in Omnifocus and had it ready to put together. That was going to be today's big post.
Then, Mama's hallucinations came back and I need to spend the day going from doc to doc. I could, if I had been stupid, have skipped my early-morning aerobics class and put that post together. But that would been, as I said, stupid.
Both these things would have violated the triage I've set up for my life. This isn't the first time I've had to establish iron-clad priorities and stick with them, even when it stings. That's the life of every successful elected official. I would never have been elected without the ability to do this, and I could never have passed all the legislation and taken care of my district and still had a happy home life without it, either.
I thought I was past that kind of self-discipline when I walked out of the House. I ping-ponged around for months, while the exigencies of Mama's dementia made hash of my life, my health and my state of mind. I wasn't managing these things; they were managing me.
It all came to a resounding crash a couple of months ago. Mama's dementia tripped over into active 24/7 hallucinations of the ugly kind, and then, right on schedule, I got sick and couldn't get well. Suddenly, I was out so deep in the deep that I couldn't touch bottom, and I was so tired, that, try as I might, I was swallowing water and dipping under.
Enter depression, a big shot of despair and anger. It was miserable.
I prayed and prayed and I didn't think I was getting answers. But God was answering me, He just wasn't telling me about it. Help came in the form of new medications and healing in my own body. Help came in that small still voice that told me that I wasn't going to be able to do this perfectly, but doing it in a messy way with lots of mistakes was alright. It was ok to just muddle through.
God gave me something I didn't pray for but which has helped me more than I can say. He gave me peace with my own weaknesses and faults, acceptance of my failures and stumbles. He gave me His love and His acceptance and His assurance that imperfect was good enough.
I didn't hear voices, and I didn't get specific direction. What I got was a gentle attagirl and a loving Peace, Be Still.
The rest came from me. God gave me courage and peace. He freed my mind from the depression and anguish and that let me find my own way out of the woods.
Robert Frost said that the way out is through. In this case, he was absolutely right. The way out is through. I'm not the perfect daughter doing the perfect job of caregiving. I am just me, seeing my Mama home the best way that I can.
The first rule of going through is to make sure that you get through. What that means in direct terms is don't get sick. In the new triage of my life, I have a husband, a mother, and my own self to tend to. My precious children are adults who can and do take care of themselves. Not only that, but they've come on board big time in terms of Mama, or as they call her, Amah care.
My first priority isn't taking care of Mama or even being a wife to my husband. My first priority is taking care of me. By that I mean two simple things: Don't get sick spiritually and don't get sick physically.
A couple of the Catholic Patheosi are pretty much saints. I won't embarrass them by detailing their life of prayer and worship. It's enough for the purposes of this post to say that I ain't them. For me, not getting sick spiritually depends an awful lot on God's mercy. I pray, and I pray often. But many of my prayers are said while I'm driving my car or loading the dishwasher or giving Mama her bath or throwing out her dirty diapers.
One constant prayer is simply that God will save me from my inner jerk.
I go to mass, but only once a week. There was a time when I went every day, but not now. I probably should start going more often, simply because every time I take the Eucharist, it heals me, and I do need healing. But it's tough to start something new right now.
My first area of triage is simply this: Get 8 hours sleep (I'm not doing so good at this one), go to aerobics class and ride my recumbent bike on the off days, stop eating junk. This is number one. If I crater physically, I can't do anything else.
Right next to this is pay the bills, keep the car and house maintained. This isn't time consuming, but it must be done.
Still in the first area of triage is say a prayer, read the Bible and play some music on the piano every day. The piano soothes and heals me almost as much as sleep and exercise. Ditto for prayer and Scripture.
Then, my next first area of triage is take care of Mama. This is huge. It's hours and hours. It's unpredictable and crazy making. It's why I have to stay prayed up and exercise, sleep, eat right. I can not take care of Mama unless I do those things.
The other thing in my first area of triage is my husband. He's my other half, my life's partner, my lover and my love. It's a joy to spend time with him. I can't let him and our relationship be shoved out of my life by other things.
Spiritual and physical health, Mama, hubby: These are first priorities.
Second priorities are the book and the blog. The blog comes after the book in priorities.
Third is everything else. That includes keeping the house clean, doing laundry, etc.
So, the reason I haven't been blogging as much is simple. The blog got bumped to second place of second place. I blog after I take care of me, Mama, hubby, pay the bills, change the oil in my car, get the air conditioner serviced and write my book. The blog still comes in ahead of running the vacuum and doing the laundry. Fortunately, those things fit easily in odd moments.
When I need to stand up and take a break, I vacuum the living room or empty the dishwasher.
What I don't do is skip aerobics to blog or short-change my husband to work on the book.
That, my friends, is the new triage of my life. It seems to be working, but as I said, Mama's hallucinations are back. That may well force a whole new paradigm on me. I'm doing doctor duty today. And that's why this is the only post you'll see from me until tomorrow.
Prayers and blessings to each of you.
If you do not eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, you will no have life within you. Jesus Christ
The Eucharist was a scandal. Many of Jesus' followers left Him when He explicitly told them I am the bread of life.
It is popular today to cast Jesus as a Casper Milquetoast god thingy of our devising. According to popular cant, Jesus' sole purpose in becoming human was to tell us that, hey, I'm ok and you're ok. Do what feels good and so long as it doesn't kill somebody else — unless of course it's euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research or abortion, in which case, it's a "human right" to kill somebody else — so long as it doesn't kill somebody else that you've decided it is a denial of human rights not to kill, it's fine by me.
Jesus' living teaching about the mercy of God toward the weak and helpless, in particular women, when He said let him who is without sin cast the first stone has been transmuted to mean I can commit any sin I want and the Church is sinning if it says my sin is a sin.
The Eucharist was a hard teaching, a scandalizing teaching, on that day when Jesus first taught it. Many people left Him because of it.
But Jesus didn't follow after them and try to smooth things over. He didn't say C'mon back. I didn't mean it that way.
His reaction — if you have deluded yourself into believing in the Casper Milquetoast Jesus of modern pop theology — was downright unChristlike.
Stop grumbling among yourselves. He said. It is written, They will all be taught by God.
Then, he doubled down on his teaching about the Eucharist: My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink … Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.
Finally, He turned to His disciples and said, Are you going to leave me too?
Not, notice, please, please don't leave me; I was only speaking metaphorically.
He looked at them and without equivocation acknowledged that they were as scandalized by this teaching as those in the crowd, but, again, without wavering one inch on that hard teaching, asked them the real question that He asks each of us: Are you going to leave me, too?
It was a line in the proverbial sand. Stay or go, He was saying, but the teaching will not change.
He asks us, all of us, including our cardinals and bishops, this same question today. Are you going to leave me, too?
Will the hard teachings of our Christ Jesus, Who was anything but a Casper Milquetoast, be too much for you?
Today's Catholics wuss right by the hard teaching of the Eucharist. We've got that one down.
But the other hard teachings about the sanctity of marriage and human life, about the reality of hell and the fact that yes, Virginia, there is a satan, are too difficult, too embarrassing, too demanding of us in this post-Christian world.
We want to whittle Jesus down, to wear away His rough edges like a bar of soap, until we have a slippery little g god who won't make things so tough on us. We want our silly addlepated little wimp of a self-made god who won't trouble us in our desire to be accepted and loved by everybody, including those who are unknowingly following satan when they attack Him.
We want Christ without the cross, eternal life and salvation without redemption and conversion.
It hurts me! Sinners cry. It hurts to be "judged" a sinner just because I break these eternal rules. It rankles and angers me that anyone would think that the things I want to do are wrong. So, stop saying that. In fact, tell me that what I want — whatever I want — is good and virtuous.
If the Church obliges, it will condemn these people to hell.
It will also condemn itself to inconsequence.
It is one thing to teach that this Church of ours is the cornerstone, that it was built on Peter the rock and that Jesus said the gates of hell would not prevail against it. It is quite another to arrogantly assume that the Church may change the basic teachings of the faith and teach that which is contrary to what Christ taught and that it will be A-Ok because Jesus said the gates of hell would not prevail against us.
The first is faith. The second is presumption.
Jesus did not mean whatever this Church does is holy because the Church does it. His great Apostle, St Paul, said quite clearly, God is not mocked.
John the Baptist told the Pharisees, when they went into the wilderness to refute him for his preaching, that everyone — including them — was in need of redemption. He then smashed their self-justifying claims of exemption from following the laws of God. Do not say we are sons of Abraham, he told them. God can raise up sons of Abraham from these very stones.
Jesus said it best, of course, when He said, A servant is not greater than his master.
That applies to those who wear the mitre just as it does to the rest of us.
Perhaps the hardest teaching in that day of hard teachings when Christ the Lord made clear beyond misunderstanding what the Eucharist really meant, was the answer He gave to those who walked away. It is written, they will all be taught by God.
We have been taught by God made flesh. This is not some wimpy, politically correct little g god of our devising. This is a God who was reviled and attacked, mocked and betrayed and yet did not yield. This is a God who consented to be beaten, tortured, mocked, and horribly murdered; Who took on the bottomless alienation of all sin, Who became Sin, in order to buy us back from our perdition.
Are you going to leave me too?
That is the question.
It's up to each one of us to decide what we will answer.
It's a bitter pill for Catholics, watching the videos of Archbishop Carlson's testimony.
I understand and share the emotions it raises.
But we do not serve ourselves or our Church by pretending that it ain't so. We've got to face this because it is reality. It doesn't change in any way the simple fact that Jesus said "You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
What it changes is the blind notion that many Catholics have — that we all want to have — that our religious leaders are sinless Christ figures themselves.
They're just people, just like us. They are conduits of the graces of the sacraments. God can and does reach through them and into us when we go to them for support and help in our troubles.
But the miracle in that is all on God, not on them. They don't create the miracle, they don't control the grace. I know from personal experience that God can reach out and touch anyone, anytime. I believe that all that's needed on our parts is a willing heart. All we have to do to receive God's healing grace is say yes to it.
Why, then, a priesthood? If God can reach directly into us Himself then why do we need priests who are conduits of grace?
Because the priesthood is God's instrument for bestowing this grace in an understandable, predictable and accessible way. I think that the emotionalism that is sometimes exhibited in some churches is an attempt to re-create that first transforming moment of grace when they originally said yes. It is an attempt to touch God and feel it again by using our own emotions to elevate ourselves to that level.
The Eucharist gives us that healing moment of grace, that experience of touching God, of feeling Christ, without any effort on our part. All we have to do is say yes and partake. It is the same with confession. Confession bestows healing grace. So much so that there have been times, including long periods when I was feeling especially challenged, that I went to confession every week, even though my sins were not so grave, because I needed that encounter with Christ, that healing grace that confession gives.
Sacramental confession strengthens us in an almost unfelt way. The more often we go to confession, the stronger we are in resisting evil. In fact, my experience has been that if I confess something on a regular basis, I stop wanting to do it. It takes a bit of time, but that's what happens.
These graces, as well as the graces of the other sacraments, flow through the priest in a way that is simple for those of us who receive it. We don't have to understand theology. We don't have to work ourselves into an emotional high. All we have to do is say yes and accept the grace that is freely given to us.
The crowning moment of grace is always the Eucharist, which is direct contact with Christ. So far as I'm concerned — and I'm not a theologian, so this applies only to me and my understanding — the Church is the Eucharist. And we are the eucharist. Because the Eucharist is Christ. The priesthood exists to bestow grace. Priests are conduits of grace, and it does not matter what kind of hooligan they are personally, the graces of the sacraments flow through them to us, regardless.
Which brings me back to Archbishop Carlson. I wouldn't call him a hooligan. In fact, I'm not sure how to label him. I don't want to label him and his faults. It is enough for me that this is the situation in which we find ourselves, him and us. Because at this point, that's what it's about: Him and us.
Not, Jesus and us, or even the Church and us. But poor, messed up Archbishop Carlson and us. We don't have to decide what to do about Archbishop Carlson. What we are tasked with is determining how we are going to relate to our dear Church in the light of the obvious fact that our leaders are ordinary people.
They can be cowards. Just like us.
They can be craven. Just like us.
They can lie, cheat, steal and run away when they get in trouble. Just like us.
They can gossip and betray confidences, hold grudges and be spiteful. Just like us.
They are not Christ.
What they are is men who have consented to be the conduits of grace to Christ's Church, which is us. There is a moment when heaven comes to earth and the Eucharist becomes His Body, His blood, in which the divine flows through them.
The fact that a few of them become callous about this and begin to devalue it and even start thinking that it is all about them and not Jesus, does not change the impact it has on us. The Eucharist is still real, even if the priest is a messed-up welter of confusion and sin.
Archbishop Carlson reveals himself to be a lawyered-up citizen who ducks and covers under oath in an act of self defense. I have no idea why he didn't do the obvious thing and exercise his right to take the Fifth Amendment. It would have been far less damaging to his credibility than this performance.
You can find the full text of his deposition here. Many of the salient comments are highlighted to make them easy to find.
There really isn't any point in trying to find an "out" for Archbishop Carlson in this. The deposition speaks for itself. Besides, it's not our job to judge Archbishop Carlson. Our job is the much tougher one of working out how to be a faithful Catholic in a world of fallen leaders, including our leaders in the Church.
How do we follow these men when they are so nothing special as this deposition reveals them to be? Not, mind you, worse than us. Most of us would duck and cover in a deposition like this one, just like the Archbishop. Any of us who have brains would get the best legal counsel we could and do exactly what that attorney told us to do.
Archbishop Carlson doesn't reveal himself to be a fiend in this deposition. He reveals himself to be no better than the rest of us.
Which brings us back to the task that faces us. We are fallen people, served by a priesthood that is composed entirely of fallen people, living in a fallen world.
Yet we serve a risen Savior, Who is God Incarnate. We are called to be "perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect."
But we can't do it. We. Can. Not. Do. It. We don't get through a single day without at least one and usually many sins of one sort or another.
We want heroes who will give us the illusion of the possibility of human perfection. But human perfection is always just that; an illusion.
To put it bluntly, we are all — priest and parishioner alike — down here in the pits together. As Jesus said, "There is none good except God."
So how do we solve this conundrum of answering a call to be "perfect" while we are certain that there is "none good" among humankind?
We solve it by getting up every morning and giving our day to Jesus and His Mother. We solve it by availing ourselves of the certain graces of the sacraments. We solve it by forgiving each other and sustaining one another in our weakness.
How does this apply to the Archbishop Carlsons in our clerical leadership? More to the point, how does it apply to us and our response to the Archbishop Carlsons in our leadership?
My answer — and this is just me, talking about me — is that we need to cherish these men and help them as we can. At the same time, we need to stop pretending that they are anything other than fallen human beings. When they stand behind that altar and lift up the host, they are conduits of God's grace. When they come down from behind the altar and scald us with a fit of rage or lie in a deposition, they are just people, wallowing around in the pit of failed good intentions along with the rest of us.
This is difficult for Catholics. It's difficult for me. I am still working out how to deal with wounds inflicted by clergy. Some days I don't do so well with it. Protestants can just dismiss their clergy as fallen people and be done with it. But Catholics are part of a hierarchical Church whose entire governance is built on the administration of these fallen men.
How do we, as Catholics, remain faithful when we see by their actions that we must be judicious about how and when we follow our clergy?
This is a tough one. It's not always or even mostly about big public dilemmas like Archbishop Carlson's dipping and dodging deposition. It is usually more personal, and because of that, far more damaging to us as Christians and Catholics.
How do we, say, disregard things a priest or spiritual director says to us in a fit of rage? How do we decide what to believe and what not to believe about the things they say to us? How do we overcome the sense of betrayal when a priest gossips about our deepest hurts? These are more the kinds of things that most Catholics must overcome in their walk of faith. The big public falls from grace seem easy to me compared to those much deeper personal dilemmas. How do we live together as Catholics in this fallen world?
These are hard questions with no easy answers. I'm going to leave it open for discussion and see what the rest of you think. In the meantime, take a look at Archbishop Carlson's deposition. It's clearly not a case of dementia or anything like it. He's dipping and dodging and doing it quite well. Just like us.
So it turns out that those pesky Satanists who want to decorate my state capitol lawn with what is one ugly bit of Satanic statuary also have their eyes set on higher ed.
The Satanic Temple evidently plans to hold a black mass at the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club. That's Harvard, as in the hugely expensive university where so many of the poobahs that run this country for their own benefit get their tickets to power punched.
I chose to ignore this story when it first surfaced because I had no idea if it was true, and I had zero time for tracking it down. But Elizabeth Scalia, aka, The Anchoress, who is easily as busy as I am, made the time to do just that.
It turns out that yes indeed, Harvard is playing host to the black mass folks, and at least one of them is claiming that they've managed to procure a consecrated host to use in their alternative culture extravaganza. Others of them aren't so sure they have a host, and after thinking it over (and getting flak from The Anchoress) they've announced that, even though they have — or don't have, depending on who's doing the talking — a consecrated host, they won't be using it (if they do have it) at their shindig.
Of course, Satan is the father of lies, and these are his disciples, so who knows if they have a consecrated host or not? Who knows if they'll use it?
In an interview on Mobile Movement, the leader of this hardy band of the damned first says that they do, in fact, worship Satan. Then, he goes off on a riff about literary constructs, referencing Milton and Anatole France. Since, as I said earlier, Satan is the father of lies, I don't think it matters all that much what this guy says. Believe it or don't, as it suits you. But, if you're smart, don't bet anything valuable on it.
Deacon Greg Kandra reminds us that Harvard was once a Christian university, that it was, in fact, founded on Christian principles. But that, as they say, was then. This is now.
Academic pretensions aside, Harvard today is the premiere ticket-puncher for the power elite of this country. Go to Harvard, rule the unwashed masses. There's nothing, but absolutely nothing, Christian about that.
So, it doesn't surprise that in addition to worshipping power and mammon, they're taking the mask off that deal and putting the guy behind the mask right out there in public where we can all see him.
Not to be limited to ugly art and profaning the mass, the followers of the dark lord are also getting into politics. According to their Facebook Page, The Satanic Temple is running an Adopt a Highway campaign, and plans to hold a tongue-in-cheek rally in support of Florida Governor Rick Scott, an honor which I doubt the good governor really wants.
What do I advocate in response to Harvard's foray into cultural experimentation by way of satan worship and talk of maybe defiling what might be a consecrated host that is the Real Presence of Christ the Lord?
Just this: Don't send your kids to Harvard. And write your senators and representatives about taking a good long look at all those government grants that get funneled into that one school.
We need to do this anyway, you know. Harvard and its little troupe of elite schools are not healthy for this country. They create a 1% that is disconnected from and hostile to the rest of us. They are, in many ways, predatory. It would be much better for this country if we offered some of those grants to other institutions, including non-academic organizations.
The only other thought I have is to pray for these satanists. Not only are they desperate for attention and more than a little crazy acting, they've got horrifically bad taste in art.
This is the ugly statue that the Satanic Temple wants to put on Oklahoma's Capitol grounds.
Like everybody my age, I've got a lot of past.
Not all of my past is good.
In fact, a portion of it is seriously miserable.
I try to forget.
And forgive myself for the things I've done.
I try to forget.
And forgive others for the things that have been done to me.
But there are days when that load of past can get heavy. Especially in church. My miserable past includes a couple of bad times with church. I've experienced the rejection of unforgiveness. Even though I forgive as best I can, the memory still comes back from time to time, like an ache in an old break in a bone when the weather changes.
The two greatest challenges this poses are a loss of trust and a deep feeling of unworthiness. The bad opinions of others can imprint on a person and leave their ugly image. Trust, once it's cut away, doesn't re-grow. It callouses over, but the nerves are dead.
I have periods of time in my life when the hardest thing I have to do is go to mass. Not because of any latent anger, but because of the deep sense of unworthiness. I have no right to be there in the presence of the Presence, and I know it.
I had an exceptionally rough bout with this recently. I actually left the church during mass, left my husband there, holding the hymnal and looking at me with uncomprehending eyes as I left, driven away by the unworthiness that is branded into me.
I used those moments away to gather myself to myself and then I went back in. But it wasn't easy. I got through that mass by looking at the tabernacle and talking to Him.
Because it's true, you know. I have no right to be there, in the presence of the Presence. I am unworthy, as John the Baptist said, to untie His sandal. Yet the reason, the only reason, that I am there is that He invited me.
In the final analysis, the Presence does not belong to any priest, or even to the Church itself. They are its guardians, and the conduit by which God graciously consents to dwell among us in the Eucharist. But the Presence is God Himself, and as such, that Presence belongs to no human being. It is It's Own Self.
I came to the Catholic Church and asked to come into full communion because Christ in the Eucharist called me to Himself. It was a call that was so clear, persistent and patient, that, in the end, it worked its way past all the obstacles to what was at the time a rather bold step of faith.
Jesus called me to Himself in the Eucharist. That is why I am Catholic.
And on that day when my own unworthiness flared into a blistering flame inside me, when I wanted to run away, to paraphrase St Peter, because I am a sinful woman, He was there, not to call, but to strengthen me past my focus on me and bring me into a fresh focus on Him.
I kept looking at the tabernacle, at Jesus, present in our midst. I don't know if it was a prayer, or a conversation, or a vow of a sort. I only know I spoke directly to Him and He heard me.
"You are my Lord," I told Him. "You are the reason I am here. You are the One I trust. You and only You."
There was more. But that's the gist of it. Shattered trust is like an amputation. It can't grow back. We can never undo the things we've done or forget the lessons of the things that are done to us. Forgive, yes. But forgetfulness would be to unlearn the life lessons and forego the spiritual depth these things give us.
If you live long enough and do enough hard things, you will lose your trust in people, in fate, in your own good luck. The illusions of personal invincibility die a hard death, but Christ can and will raise up a new trust and a new invincibility from the ashes on that pyre of self-sufficiency.
"You are my Lord," I told Him, and it was as much vow as prayer; an open acknowledgement of the truth of things, bound up in a promise. "You — and You only — are my Lord."
"You are the reason I am here." I said, not because I enjoy the liturgy or find affirmation in the friendships, but "You — and You only — are the reason I am here."
"You are the One I trust," because You have proven Yourself trustworthy time and time again, because You loved me first and because You forgave me and walk with me and endure me and keep forgiving me over and over again.
"You and only You," because people, even the most lovable and precious of people, will let you down. Because, I, you and everyone, will let ourselves down. We will betray one another and we will also betray ourselves. Only Christ will never fail us.
I was not the only wounded person in the church that day. I am never am. We are all wounded, in one way or another. We shatter our self-righteousness by the things we do, and we face the terrible isolation and aloneness of the things that are done to us.
The many cruelties people practice against one another — our gossip and slanders, violence, lies, betrayals and deliberate degradations — are all at base an isolation of the other person, a way of putting them outside while we remain inside.
We draw lines around ourselves and our group, whoever that group may be, and then we push everyone outside that line into a sub-class of one sort or another. This hurts and maims all of us.
So many times on this blog I see angry, harsh comments, coming from people who at base are just trying to express their sense of isolation and rejection. The truth is, no one of us, not a single person of us, has the right to stand before God.
But He is our Lord. And He has invited all of us — ALL of us — to His table. No one of us has a right to be there. But, by the miracle of His love, no one of us is too wounded, too sin-sick, too disreputable, too female, too gay, too poor, too fat, too ugly, stupid or lost to be refused a place at that table. We are all welcome.
He is always with us, even when others fail us or turn us away. He is always ready to accept us and forgive us. We don't have to stop sinning and get perfect to come to Him. He accepts us just, as the old hymn says, as we are.
We may have to jump through more hoops that we can manage to find surcease and acceptance from other people. But all we ever have to be or will ever have to do with Him is put our hand in His and say "Yes."
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After finishing the 2011 season with a 3-13 record, there isn't much room for optimism for Minnesota Vikings fans. That shouldn't be the case, however, as the team transitions into 2012.
While the team didn't start off the 2011 season very strong, and probably even finished the season weaker, there were certainly stretches and glimpses of potential for this very young team.
Now that the Vikings have filled their coaching vacancies and have a new general manager, this team can truly start rebuilding in the right direction—and in my opinion, we've already seen rock-bottom.
There were such high expectations for success going into 2011, that now seem quite unrealistic in hindsight. The Vikings started a rookie QB after losing their No. 1 WR, cut their left tackle, and most importantly, were in their first season with a new head coach—so it was pretty unrealistic to expect a ton of success to begin with.
2012 will be different, though—and continuity will be the key. If this team keeps moving in the same direction, collectively they will be much more successful.
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The sticker isn't exactly 100% invisible when you apply it but it's hidden so well when you apply it right and when your eyes are open. Add some eye shadow and no one can really tell there's anything on your lids. A picture speaks a million words, so here's a before and after—amazing right!
This newer eyelid tape takes a little more getting used to because it is fatter than the one I am selling now, but once you get the hang of it ( it took me a few try's ), the effect is worth it! It makes the double eyelid look even more defined but more natural. Strange but totally amazing. The current tape I am selling is thinner and is suited for those with thinner hidden eyelids or monolids who a more natural look. Dolly or wide eye lovers will love this tape – swear! Wear it right and u will love the stunning effect!
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Chicken Paprikash made with all local ingredients
Chicken Paprikash
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8 oz. fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced
1 medium onion, sliced
2 cloves minced garlic
8 tbsp. butter, divided
2 tbsp. paprika
1 tbsp. red wine vinegar
1/3 c. all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. celery salt
1/4 tsp. fresh ground pepper
2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breast tenderloins
1 c. water
1 tsp. chicken bouillon granules
1 pint sour cream
1 lb. extra wide egg noodles or kluski
Chopped fresh parsley, to taste
Salt and pepper, to taste
Melt 1 tbsp. butter in large skillet. Cook mushrooms over medium heat until medium tender. Drain Moisture from skillet. Melt another 3 tbsp. butter in the skillet, adding sliced onions and garlic. Cook until onions are tender.
Meanwhile, mix flour and the next 3 ingredients. Cut the chicken tenderloins into bite sized pieces and dredge them through the flour mixture. Place in the skillet with the vegetables, pushing them up against the side so that the chicken will brown. Cook 3 to 4 minutes on each side, or until golden brown. Add water, chicken bouillon granules, vinegar and paprika. Heat to a boil, then reduce to low and cover for 1 hour.
Prepare the egg noodles according to package instructions. Add 4 tbsp. butter and parsley to taste. While the noodles are finishing up, remove the chicken from the heat. Add the sour cream. Add salt and pepper as needed. You can either serve the chicken on top of the noodles, or you can mix the noodles and chicken together. I prefer the latter myself, as it gives better coverage and doesn't let any of the delicious gravy go to waste.


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Plaza Fuente Dorada. Tourist Info Point.
Favorite thing: Plaza Fuente Dorada or Golden Fountain Square is known since XIII century and was the commercial center of city of Valladolid. During the Great fire of 1561 all houses and their arcades suffered heavy damage and collapsed. King Felipe II ordered its reconstruction by royal decree of December 13, 1564.Modern name this square received in 1738 from the name of installed fountain. This fountain was replaced several times until in 1997 present fountains known as "Fours seasons" was built here by architect Fernández González Pontius.
Tourist information kiosk is situated here and you can get free map of Valladolid and any tourist info here.
Plaza Fuente Dorada, Valladolid
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Bitter facts about Valladolid
Favorite thing: Valladolid is said to be cold in winter, sweltering in summer (however it rained a lot when I was there!). It is said to be polluted and noisy, and the sad fact is that many older buildings have been replaced by moder and utilitarian ones. However, most attractions remained and after centuries of decline the city is reviving economically and culturaly!
More and more historical sites are being rebuilt, the area cleaned and refreshened and Valladolid is becoming an even better tourist destination that ever, and I have to mention: its location is a great place to start touring Castilla y Leon!
Take a walk around
Favorite thing: The Valladolid town council produces an excellent series of brief guided walks round the city which are available from its Turismo offices - one of which is conveniently sited near the fountain at the Plaza Zorrilla on the Acera de Recoletos. It is a great way to get to know the city better and it is quite cheap, so try it out.
Where is everybody...
Favorite thing:
It was a holiday when we arrived.
The city was empty...except for one place.
The parc 'campo grande' seemed to have
turned into a low ^profile attraction parc.
We saw this crowed near the central lake.
When we came closer there was this
popey character with a boat with a lot of children.
There was talking and waving...
he seemed to entertain the whole crowd.
>Finally the children said goodbey to mum
and dad. A last kiss...
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Another touching scene...
Favorite thing:
I know this so well from the Antwerp zoo.
Grandma of grandpa takes the children to
the zoo. And they got a bonding with the
I witnessed this scene in the parc 'campo grande'.
He was telling his grandchild about the squirrel.
The little brown creature came down
when he heard his name 'alfredo'...
took the food and run.
Other people tried to imitate...
- Budget Travel
Plaza Mayor
Favorite thing: It is a known fact that most of the towns in Spain are built around their Plaza Mayor, however Valladolid's square was the first in Spain! Still looks amazing with the unusual colour of buildings and lots of bars and cafes to keep you entertained.
- Architecture
They got them in white
Favorite thing:
I love parcs and gardens.
I love to watch people in parcs and gardens.
Valladolid has a real nice one in the center.
On the map it looks huge , and it is compared
to the area of the cities center.
One thing we saw were 'white peacocks'
They are just stunning! I did see them ones
before... but for free it was the first time.
They like to sit in a tree near the angel
waterfall in the center of the 'campo grande'
Shall we rub it???
Favorite thing:
We were walking down the city when we
came across this nice square with a fountain
in the middle.
Two naked men seem to push the fountain
to another side.
When we took a closer look we saw that the
*** of one of those men was shining bright...
It just made me wonder...
We got a lot of statues in Belgium that are
known to bring good luck rubbing this
or that parth...
I was tempted to try this one ... it was really
shinning bright yellow - but I didn't dare to.
So I can't tell you if it works.
Do you think there could be another
explanation for the shiny fraction ?
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Cosmopolitan city
Favorite thing: I found Valladolid quite a cosmopolitan city, compared to other capitals of Castilla y León's provinces such as Salamanca, Segovia, Zamora or Ávila. It is a bigger city than those I mentioned - around 320.000 inhabitants - and seems to have bigger economic activity, such as services, more commerce and more leisure activities. Still, Valladolid is more than modern buildings - along the city many beautiful styled buildings may be seen, and some of them visited. Valladolid is a beautiful city by the river to visit during the day and to enjoy at night, as there are so many options to go out and have fun.
Favorite thing: Valladolid is the capital of the autonomous community Castilla y León, situated in central Spain. Castilla y León is composed of 9 provinces, one of which is Valladolid - this city is situated about 200km north of Madrid. In the 1500's Valladolid was, for a short period, the capital of Spain - the King and Queen lived there, and the city grew a lot, due to the gold and money that was brought from Spanish discoveries and conquests overseas. Over the years, the monarchs moved to Madrid and Valladolid lost its importance and development stopped (as well as the richness from overseas). In the early 19th century, Napoleón Bonaparte occupied and had installed headquarters in this city. In the 20th century, Valladolid recovered its "strength" and went through a major development, which lead the city to being selected as the capital of the autonomous community in 1983.
Favorite thing: Valladolid, the capital of Castilla-Leon has one of the most important sculpture museums of all Spain, and the famous Easter week processions are of great touristical interest.
It is said that in Valladolid the most correct Castilian Spanish is spoken, so it is an ideal place to study this language.
As my family are from Aranda de Duero, very near, my mother studied there in the university, so I can prove that this is correct (I mean that here can you can learn the most correct spanish).
If you're in Valladolid during...
Favorite thing: If you're in Valladolid during the Fiesta of La Virgen de San Lorenzo (September 9th) be sure to sample the food available at the street fairs and amusement park fair (set-up on the field next to Jose Zorrilla Stadium).
The picture shown here is of empanadillas - a pastry that could have fish or other delicacies on the inside.
Fondest memory: The fondest sight of Valladolid I remember was the street stand sponsored by the 'Cerveceria El Guevo'.
See a Real Valladolid game at...
Favorite thing: See a Real Valladolid game at Zorilla (Aupa Pucela!!!)
After the game go to El Cuadro for a few drinks and dancing at the club. My favorite is La Vieja...
Fondest memory: The day I got to Valladolid...it was the first day I spent in a foreign country. All day just walking around in awe of everything I saw. My first meal in Spain was 'Calamares' (Squid) boiled in it's own ink. The tentacles were sticking out and everything. To be polite with my host family I ate every bite...Delicioso!!!
I came to valladolid by train...
Favorite thing: I came to valladolid by train from paris with my wife;it was so hot(36°C) that I felt sick and suddenly fell down on my knees in the street;valladolid is the very heart of spain,a mixture of ancient buildings and modern life,like the mall of 'el cortes ingles'
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Peace can show itself in a trillion ways, like beekeeping or re-reading Tintin comics without distraction. Anger, infinitely easier, shows itself in cliches -- the threatening voice, the clenched fist, the malicious gaze. Wisdom is manifested according to unique situation that it confronts -- now it penetrates this mystery, now that; now it offers counsel, now it keeps silence. Folly, by which we are unable to see past the immediate pressures and pleasures of the environment, makes an obvious … [Read more...]
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I experienced something and that something was nothing
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My generation's sitcoms still refer to sex as a fun, healthy, and fundamentally light activity -- something between a pelvic workout and an exciting way to say, "hey, I totally respect your need for meaningful self-expression." It is, as aging sexologists assure us, a normal behavior that we all ought indulge as a way of "relieving tension." We may agree -- who wouldn't want it to be true? -- but we nod with the sadness of a generation raised on divorced families, infidelity, immense sexual vio … [Read more...]
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The Catholic Church is criticized for sneaking an attitude of "merit" into her followers. We believe (so we are informed) that we can "gain" Heaven by some weight of action. The critique is best expressed as a sneer: "What, you confess your sins to the priest and, voila, you're forgiven your murder, theft, child-molestation? Hike a trail, kiss the knee-bone of a Saint, and the grace of God floods into your heart?" Catholics pretend to conquer the Infinite God through some knockout combo of … [Read more...]


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Beck's 'Wow' Remixed by Mexican Institute of SoundA new Mexican Institute of Sound remix replaces Beck's electronic woodwinds with a mariachi band.
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Beck Returns With Funky New Single 'Dreams'Beck says goodbye to those pretty 'Morning Phase' ballads to get a little funky.
Beck Teases Mysterious 'Dreams': See the Cover Art GIFSources say that Beck is set to harken back to the fun and funky sounds of the beloved 1999 album 'Midnite Vultures.'
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Judging from the Fall 2012 collections, headpieces are about to get a major upgrade in the fashion world. From New York to Paris, designers accessorized their looks with berets, caps, cloches, furry hats, fascinators, headbands, top hats, and the list goes on. Here are the top 10 toppers that took head gear from being a mere accessory to a serious fashion statement.
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Henry previously pleaded not guilty to the charges, but decided to withdraw the not-guilty pleas Friday.
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Rachel Ellen Wahl and Cody James Myers, both of Dublin, Ohio, announced their engagement
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mark and Maria Wahl of Tiffin, Ohio. She graduated in 2007 from Tiffin Columbian High School and in 2011 from Owens Community College. She is a home health physical therapist assistant with McCarthy Health Services in Columbus, Ohio.
Her fiance is the son of Roger and Marilyn Myers of Bellaire and Juan and Holly Penhos of Tiffin, Ohio. He graduated in 2006 from Tiffin Columbian High School and in 2010 from Bowling Green State University. He is employed by Tiffin City Schools as a physical education teacher.
An Aug. 17 wedding is planned.


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Alberta Z. Brown Distinguished Minister Award for Pastoral Ministry- Rev. Dr. Michael Waco
Rev. Dr. Michael Waco was born in Fort Worth and entered TCU following his graduation from high school in Lawton, Oklahoma. During his freshman year at TCU he served on the staff at First Christian Church in Fort Worth as Director of Youth Activities and choir soloist. He also sang at Casa Manana Musicals for seven seasons and at the Kansas City Starlight Theater, as well as with the Fort Worth Opera. He received his B.A. from TCU in 1962 and M.Div. from Brite Divinity School in 1966. While a student at Brite he served as Associate Minister at Richland Hills Christian Church where he was ordained. He also met his wife Linda there, and in 1965 they moved to San Angelo where he was Associate Minister at First Christian Church prior to becoming Senior Minister in 1968. He received his D.Min. from Brite in 1978 and as part of that study, with church and community working together, created and established The San Angelo Children's Shelter for Abused and Neglected Children, which continues to operate as The Concho Valley Home for Girls/Children's Emergency Shelter.
In 1979, Rev. Dr. Waco became the Senior Minister of the Community Christian Church in Kansas City, MO, where he served until 1986. During his ministry there the congregation hosted a National Evangelism Conference, and in 1983 he served as the song leader of the General Assembly of the Christian Church (DOC) in San Antonio. He was then Senior Minister of Central Christian Church in Dallas for eight years. Since 1995, he has been a Chaplain at Restland Funeral Home in Dallas where he continues to conduct over 250 funerals a year and ministers primarily to unchurched families or those without a minister. He also served as part time minister at the Forest Grove Christian Church in Lucas for seven years, and at First Christian Church in Weston for eleven years. He celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his ordination last October.
Michael and Linda live in Frisco, Texas and are the parents of Jennifer Fettchenhauer and Geoff Waco, and grandparents of Max and Delaney.
Alberta Z. Brown Distinguished Minister Award for Specialized Ministry- Revs. Dorothy and Lew Davis
Lew Davis grew up in Chickasha, OK and went to Phillips University. Called to serve a weekend church, he was ordained at First Christian Church in Chickasha in 1949. Dorothy Armstrong grew up in Kansas City, MO, moving to finish high school in Oklahoma City. She met Lew at Phillips, and they were married in 1950. They decided together to enter the mission field in India. They completed their seminary education in 1954 at Brite. Dorothy was ordained in the Robert Carr Chapel. They were commissioned as missionaries by the United Christian Missionary Society (Division of Overseas Ministry) in 1954.
In April 1955, they arrived in India with one son and another son on its way. The first two years were a time of language study and becoming acquainted with the customs of India. They were sent to work with a growing church in a very rural area 400 miles southwest of Calcutta. For a time Lew taught in a Bible school for those wishing to become pastors; at the time, many pastors did not have a high school education. Soon Lew was going out a great deal to villages working with local pastors and recent Christians. He knew the language so well that he dreamed in it. Dorothy worked with women and boarding school children. During their time in India, they moved often, going where the need was greatest. Lew served two terms as General Secretary of the Division of Overseas Ministry in India.
Lew and Dorothy returned to the United States in 1971. After India ceased granting visas to missionaries, Lew and Dorothy ministered in churches in Oklahoma and Texas. During those years, Dorothy frequently spoke in churches about missions. In retirement, Lew and Dorothy traveled the world visiting mission fields and churches in over 90 countries.
The Davises celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in July, 2015. They have four children, two of whom were born in India. They have twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Alberta Z. Brown Distinguished Minister Award for Innovative Ministry- Rev. Dr. Andy Mangum
Andy Mangum was born in Abilene, Texas. He is a graduate of West Texas A&M University ('92, BA; '94, MA), Brite Divinity School ('98, MDiv), and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary ('09, DMin).
Andy has always been involved in church life. He grew up at First Baptist Church in Abilene. He was active at First Baptist in Canyon and the Baptist Student Ministry at West Texas A&M. He started in professional ministry in Amarillo, where he served as the Youth Minister from 1992-1995. While in Amarillo, he participated in the steering committee for the Amarillo Christian Campaign for the Homeless. While at Brite, he served as the Youth Minister at Central Christian Church in Weatherford and as Pastor of the First Christian Church in DeSoto. In 1998, he became the pastor of First Christian Church, Irving, Texas. In Irving, the church began summer mission trips for youth, taking them to Denver, CO, Girrardville, PA, and Houston, TX. It also started an English as a Second Language Ministry and participated actively in Irving Cares.
In 2002, Andy became the pastor of the First Christian Church of Arlington, TX. During his 13-plus years as pastor, the Church has initiated several innovative ministries. The Acts2 Ministry gave college students paid opportunities to spend their summer working in non-profit agencies and community ministry. The Harvesting Hope Community Garden has grown from a simple experiment into a large model of community gardening. The church has sustained a covenant relationship with Blanton Elementary, a Title 1 public school. Through that relationship, the First Christian Church has facilitated close to 200 students attending Tarrant County College's College for Kids. Andy has been involved in the Arlington Martin Luther King Four Day Celebration, the Arlington Ministries Association, and the Arlington Clergy and Police Partnership.
Andy is married to Lori Mangum, and together they are the parents of Madison, Andrew and Joshua.
The Kenneth L. Teegarden Award- Mrs. Jacqueline Mehaffy
Jacqueline Howell Mehaffy was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She was the younger of two girls born to Fort Worth firefighter Ideal Howell & Jennie Vieve McRee Howell. She graduated Paschal High School in 1942 and attended North Texas Agricultural College-Associated with Texas A&M, now the University of Texas at Arlington. While attending Central Methodist Church, Jacqueline met and later married World War II Marine veteran and and TCU graduate, Mr. Carl P. Mehaffy, Jr.
Around 1954, Carl received the call to ministry and entered Brite Divinity School. Jacqueline served beside her husband as he served pastorates at Central Methodist Church, now part of Arborlawn UMC, founding pastor of Western Hills United Methodist Church, First United Methodist Church of Weatherford, Handley United Methodist Church and as an associate at First United Methodist Church of Arlington where Jacqueline still attends.
Jackie & Carl raised two daughters Kay Mehaffy Sherman, and her husband, Robert Sherman, both retired teachers and daughter, Judy Mehaffy Richmond, a former teacher, and now a United Methodist pastor and graduate of Brite, and her husband, BJ Richmond, III. Jacqueline has 4 grandsons, 3 granddaughters-in-law, who have given her 2 incredibly wonderful great-grandsons and 2 precious great-granddaughters.
The Being Brite Award- First Christian Church of Granbury
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Granbury traces its roots to 1873, when Joseph Addison Clark and his two sons, Addison and Randolph, founded the AddRan Male and Female College in Thorp Spring. Arriving in Hood County, Addison and Randolph Clark found an unorganized group of what were called "Campbellites" meeting in the Hood County Courthouse, with the owner of a livery stable preaching on Sundays.
The Clarks organized the little group and took turns preaching. With students and faculty from AddRan College coming from Thorp Spring, the congregation became a prominent church in Granbury and was most likely considered the "campus church".
Members built a frame sanctuary at the corner of South Houston and Bluff Streets in 1889. That building housed the church for 97 years. In 1895 AddRan College moved to Waco, and later to Fort Worth as Texas Christian University. With the removal of the college, the Granbury church struggled for a number of years. From 1940 -70, student ministers and professors from Brite Divinity School preached at the church.
The completion of Lake Granbury in 1969 increased the county's population significantly, and church membership increased. Eventually the church would outgrow its facilities, and a new building was constructed at the present location on West Highway 377. The original frame building was moved in 1994 to the corner of Bridge and Brazos streets and is now the concert hall of the Langdon Cultural and Education Center.
A significant addition was completed in 1998, adding fellowship, activity and educational space. In 2002 the church was able to burn the mortgage for the expansion. In 2005 the congregation committed to yet another building program, adding approximately 12,000 square feet of education, fellowship, and administrative space. With the blessings of God and the faithful stewardship of many members and friends, the congregation is pleased to have completed payments on the building in January of 2012.
Today the congregation remains committed to serving its community. Among the many current priorities of the congregation, the church offers free yoga and Zumba classes, a weekly respite care ministry, multiple ministries directed toward the feeding of those who may be hungry in our community, and several health initiatives, including diabetes and Parkinson's support groups and a parish nurse.
First Christian Church of Granbury has been a faithful supporter of Brite Divinity School, with 21 years of continuous giving in support of ministerial education.
1995 Martin E. Pike, Jr. '43, '49, '79
1996 Richard Crews '39, '42, '60
1997 Ora M. Shelton '41, '48
1998 Hugh Baker '42, '50
1999 Gilbert Davis '49, '50
2000 Glenn Routt
2001 Roy E. Tomlinson '46, '49
2002 Don E. McKenzie '57, '78
2003 J. Sydney Carnes '62, '79
2004 Oran and Charlotte Nabors '87; '91
2005 Charles H. Sanders '63, '64
2006 Clark Ford '59
2007 Art Digby '78
2008 Bob Coleman '58, '61, '84
2009 John T. Muir, Jr. '58, '62, '69
2010 David Mindel '66, '70, '78
2011 Eldon Irving '81
2012 Chris Diebel '53, '73
2013 Rev. Clyde Nichols
2013 Rev. Dr. Curtis L. Keith
2014 Rev. Dr. Eugene W. Brice
2014 Rev. Anthony J. Vinson
2015 Rev. David Worden
1995 Ronald Somers-Clark '65, '68, '76
1996 James Moudy '43, '49, '79
1997 M. Jack Suggs '59
1998 Allan and Jan Eubank
1999 Janet Long '99
2000 Catherine J. Watson '49
2001 Ambrose Edens '42, '49
2002 Arthur A. Hanna '63, '68
2003 William R. Baird, Jr.
2004 Sidney J. Spain '52
2005 Feliberto F. Pereira
2006 William E. Tucker '56
2007 Gil Ferrell
2008 Duane Bidwell '88, '97, '03
2009 Donald B. Mills '72
2010 Mike Young '72, '72
2011 Jim Oglesby '73
2012 Kathryn Williams '48, '78
2014 Rev. Dr. Bryan G. Feille
1995 Kenneth Teegarden '49, '76
1996 Erline Walker '35, '37
1997 W. A. Welsh '38, '41, '54
1998 Frank Mabee '59
1999 Roy Martin '58, '73
2000 Lloyd Allen '44, '49
2001 Ralph and Mary Maxine Palmer '48, '50; '47, '52
2002 Jo Taylor
2003 Jan and Lloyd Tatlock
2004 Edward L. Dowell '63, '70
2005 Belva Brown Jordan '76, '86
2006 Sandy and Dan Owen '59; '60, '63
2007 Mary Luo and David '54
2008 Carl E. Zerweck III '77, '85
2009 Robin Hoover '74, '79
2010 John Butler '67
2011 David Owen '83, '86
2012 Betty Youngman '84
2013 Revs. Gail and Wayne Long
2015 Rev. Mack McCarter
2008 Holly McKissick '84, '87
2009 Irie L. Session '06
2011 Jan and Ralph Stone '50, '53; '50, '54, '75
2013 Rev. Ben Todd, Jr.
2007 Edwin and Lou Michael
2008 Roy and Edna Tomlinson
2009 Ora M. Shelton
2010 Bob and Joan Floyd, Sr.
2011 Rev. Dr. Earl and Mrs. Martha Bissex
2012 Gilbert Davis
2013 Rev. Dr. Paxton Jones
2014 Rev. Arthur A. and Susan S. Hanna
2015 Rev. Richard Ziglar & Mrs. Peggy Ziglar
2007 First Christian Church of Lancaster, Lancaster, Texas
2008 Bethany Christian Church, Houston, Texas
2009 First Christian Church, Pasadena, Texas
2010 Central Christian Church, Texarkana, Texas
2011 First Christian Church, Odessa, Texas
2012 First Christian Church, Huntsville, Texas
2013 First Christian Church, Beaumont, Texas
2014 Richland Hills Christian Church, Richland Hills, Texas
2015 Memorial Christian Church, Midland, Texas


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This short video program explains a complex electrical concept - in understandable terms.
Genentech - contract to produce and narrate educational video.
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Located in Pokhara, Hotel Family Home Pokhara is convenient to Barahi Temple and World Peace Stupa. This hotel is within close proximity of Devi's Fall and Pokhara International Mountain Museum.
Make yourself at home in one of the 24 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected.
Pamper yourself with onsite massages or make use of the other amenities, which include complimentary wireless Internet access.
Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Hotel Family Home Pokhara. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided at no charge.


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Columbo - Prague
Along with free breakfast, this hotel offers dry cleaning/laundry and ATM/banking. The bar/lounge is a perfect place to have a drink. You can find a fitness center on site so you will be able to take some time out to de-stress.
Staff can provide tour/ticket assistance, express check-in and express check-out. WiFi is available.
Columbo - Prague
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $84
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Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 17 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-10 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
- Express check-in/out
If you are planning to arrive after 10 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation.
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Pets allowed
- Restrictions apply *
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- WiFi in public areas *
In the hotel
- Free breakfast
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Fitness facilities
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Meeting rooms
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Minibar
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Hair dryer
- DVD player
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- In-room safe
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Also known as
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Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: CZK 15 per person, per night
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for CZK 500 per night
WiFi is available in public areas for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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Been playing and completing a lot of games in the past few weeks. I'm gonna give my impressions of all the games I've completed to date. Don't worry, there will be NO spoilers. Just wanna post some thoughts on them.
Portal 2 (PS3) - An incredible improvement over the original game. The puzzles are fun and intuitive and the writing is EXCELLENT. Voice acting is also superb and the music is really good too. I wasn't able to get the PC version for a while due to PSN being down. I've moved onto other games so I haven't checked out the PC version now that I have it. I heard the visuals look incredible compared to the console versions. I haven't had a chance to play the coop but the single player mode was an amazing experience. Anyway, must play!
Gray Matter (PC) - An adventure game by Jane Jensen of Gabriel Knight fame. The game's art design and graphics look great but the puzzles were not that interesting. The voice acting went from excellent to terrible. It's quite a mixed bag. There were some really cool ideas and concepts but the story falls apart in the last third of the game. It was anticlimatic and the ending didn't make much sense. I was quite disappointed with the pay off. It felt like a large chunk of the story was missing. Anyway, it's worth playing for some of the ideas but overall, it wasn't as great as I was hoping for.
BTTF Episode 4 (Mac) - I have to admit I was somewhat disappointed with this episode. The puzzles were convoluted or too simplistic and the story didn't move forward much. The dialogue was good as usual but this may be the weakest episode by far. I really didn't like some parts of it. I'm curious how the final episode will end but I hope it'll be more impressive than what we got here. Meh...
LA Noire (PS3) - WOW, what a great experience. A very cool detective game with a lot of cool characters and really well written dialogue. The facial capture tech is INCREDIBLE. It's so well done that it borders on the uncanny valley. It's a lot of fun seeing so many familiar faces from TV and movies. There are some really dark stuff so mature audiences only. Get someone to watch you play it cuz it felt like I was watching a good detective TV show. Anyway, this game is a breath of fresh air and is worth playing. Well done.
DeathSmiles 2X (360) - Another CAVE shmup winner. If you enjoyed the original DeathSmiles, check this one out too. It's just as good. The switch to 3D graphics didn't bother me at all. It's very colorful and vibrant. The music is also great. Check it out if you like any shmups.
The Witcher (PC) - Got this a while ago but didn't start playing this until after the sequel came out. It's a big game with a really cool lore. There are some cool stories and concepts. The game is still janky in spots but overall, it was a solid game. There are a ton of sidequests and many characters that continually pop up. I have to say that the backtracking is TERRIBLE though. It was a major problem and actually annoyed me the more I played it. I wish it had a fast travel system. If you plan on playing the sequel, I highly recommend playing this one first. It establishes the world quite well and is a good foundation for the sequel. But be warned, it's a big game that will take a while to complete. Worth checking out for RPG lovers.
I'm still playing a bunch of other stuff but I'll post impressions for them when I'm done. Thanks for reading.
GAMES! So many games...
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Been playing and completing a lot of games in the past few weeks. I'm gonna give my impressions of all the games I've completed to date. Don't worry, there will be NO spoilers. Just wanna post some thoughts on them.


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Videos on the wii? yeah right :P how can you play'em? and what format?
The SD card in the wii has a few uses.
1 - Expansion to the onboard memory so you can copy any VC games or channels onto the SD card if you are running out of on-board memory. As pointed out previously, you cannot play games/use channels directly from the card. (Hopefully Nintendo can resolve this with a software update)
2 - Store photos/music/videos for use with the photo channel. Not all file types are suggested but Nintendo has listed those that are.
3 - A method of moving saved games between Wii consoles. ie play at someone else's house and you can take your unlocked characters etc with you.
Hopefully future games will also include downloadable content which would probably be too large for the internal memory and therefore SD cards would be used for storage.
Videos on the wii? yeah right :P how can you play'em? and what format?
The wii plays MJPEGs so you'll probably need to download a video converter and change the format before you can watch videos but it does work.
I even found a little video for you to enjoy showing that it works:


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