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For someone brought up in one of the mainline religious traditions, today's spirituality seems wild and varied beyond the widest stretches of imagination. It appears to find its sources in all the religions of the earth--and also in depth psychology, folk traditions, therapies of healing and much else besides. Old-timers are tempted to shake their heads and declare that the younger generation has quite lost its way.
And yet, today's spirituality reflects deep-seated trends in the modern world. I would like to take a brief look at some of the ways in which some of these trends are expressed in current spiritual manifestations. First, it is important to distinguish between today's spiritual emphasis on enhancing life and the quest of older spiritualities to affirm something that matters beyond life. Second, today's spirituality expresses the modern spiritual temper that places the centre of gravity of goodness in ordinary living rather than in "higher" activities. Finally, modern spirituality has a darker side, manifested in doctrines of void and death, that seems to be an integral part of the overall picture.
But looking over this history, as well as that of other religious traditions, something specific about today does emerge. Earlier movements of devotion and religious life came from spiritual entrepreneurs who broke with their time and milieu in a direction that our late twentieth-century spirituality, especially in North America, does not necessarily share.
Historically, spiritual innovators were looking for a more exigent spirituality, a more total devotion. Often, as in the case of St. Teresa and her "discalced" order, this took the form of a movement towards greater austerity and denial; sometimes, as with St. Ignatius, it took other forms. What all these movements shared, however, was the sense that a fuller devotion must take us beyond the self and even beyond life. This sense recurs in many of the great religious traditions, and preeminently in Buddhism: the transcendent is seen as something "beyond life."
One way of expressing this difficult idea might be that for these traditions, life isn't the whole story. This is not meant to be just a repudiation of egoism or the idea that my concern should be the fullness of my life. If we agree with John Stuart Mill that a full life must involve striving for the benefit of humanity, then acknowledging the transcendent means seeing a point beyond that. Nor does it mean only that life goes on after death, there is a continuation, our life doesn't totally end in our deaths. Rather, it suggests that the point of things isn't exhausted by life, the fullness of life, even the goodness of life.
St. Anthony in the desert must have appeared a very strange figure indeed, as did St. Francis of Assisi.
From this vantage point, suffering and death are not merely negation, the undoing of fullness and life. We can also find in suffering and death a place to affirm something that matters beyond life and on which life itself originally draws. Even within the purview of an exclusive humanism, one could accept suffering and death to give life to others. Acknowledging the transcendent, however, involves something more. What matters beyond life doesn't matter just because it sustains life; otherwise it wouldn't be "beyond life" in the meaning of the act. For Christians, God wills human flourishing, but "thy will be done" doesn't reduce to "let human beings flourish."
There are other ways of framing the relationship between "life" and what I'm calling "beyond life" that do not go quite so directly against the grain of contemporary western civilization. One that goes back to the very beginning of Christianity is a redefinition of the term "life" to incorporate "beyond life": for instance, the New Testament evocations of "eternal life," and Jesus' statement in John 10:10 that I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.
Or we could put it in a third way: acknowledging the transcendent means being called to a change of identity. In Buddhism, the change is quite radical, from self to "no-self" (anatta). Christian faith can be seen in the same terms: as calling for a radical decentring of the self in relation with God ("Thy will be done"). In the language of Abbé Henri Bremond in his magnificent study of seventeenth-century French spiritualities, we can speak of "theocentrism."[FN 1] Since most conceptions of a flourishing life (as opposed to conceptions of transcendence) assume a stable identity--the self for whom flourishing can be defined--this way of putting it again establishes a clear contrast between "life" and "beyond life."
Many present-day spiritualities continue in the transcendent vein: Mother Teresa, Jean Vanier and John Main are twentieth-century people. However, with these and other exceptions, what people define as spirituality today tends to be centrally and exclusively concerned with enhancing and empowering life. Many New Age spiritualities are intensely focused on the self, and meeting the individual's imminent needs (emotional, psychological and the like) is their supreme goal.
The gamut of today's spiritualities encompasses two dimensions. One is a lateral dimension, running from spiritualities with Christian sources to those that draw on Eastern religions, Native American traditions or witchcraft. The other is a vertical dimension, whose two poles are transcendence on one end and life-centredness on the other (see accompanying diagram).
Of course, the relation between enhancing life and going beyond life has been complex and far from uniform in our religious histories. Historic religions have in fact combined concern for flourishing and transcendence in their normal practice.
The supreme achievements of those who went beyond life have even served to nourish the fullness of life for those who remain on this side of the barrier. Thus, prayers at the tombs of Christian martyrs or Muslim saints brought long life, health and a whole host of good things for the faithful. And in Theravada Buddhism, the dedication of monks is turned through blessings, amulets and the like to all the ordinary purposes of flourishing among the laity. This stance of "complementary symbiosis" reflects an instrumentalization of transcendence for the purposes of life-centredness. On the vertical continuum, it would appear somewhere between the two poles.
All religions have had "reformers" who have considered this symbiotic, complementary relation between renunciation and flourishing a travesty. Insisting on returning religion to its "purity," they posit the goals of renunciation on their own, as goals for everyone, separate from the pursuit of flourishing. Some are even moved to denigrate the pursuit of flourishing altogether, declaring it unimportant or an obstacle to sanctity. This is the stance of purity, which falls at the transcendent end of the vertical continuum.
But this extreme stance runs athwart a very central thrust in some religions, notably Christianity and Buddhism. For these religions, renouncing or aiming beyond life not only takes you away but also brings you back to flourishing. In Christian terms, renunciation involves submitting to God's will, but God's will is in part the flourishing of human beings, biblically called agapê. In Buddhist terms, Enlightenment doesn't just turn you from the world but also opens the floodgates of metta (lovingkindness) and karuna (compassion). This stance of agapê/karun differs both from the stance of purity and from the instrumental stance that accepts a complementary symbiosis of renunciation and flourishing.
Many life-centred spiritualities in our contemporary culture place themselves centrally in the Christian tradition, while others place themselves in the Buddhist tradition. The continuity with these traditions is real, but there is also a very important break here. For the traditional forms, life-enhancement follows a turn to the transcendent for its own sake, and transcendence is not instrumentalized. By contrast, in many of today's New Age, life-centred spiritualities, the transcendent either is absent or is ultimately instrumentalized to life.
Spirituality today straddles this boundary between the transcendent and the life-centred. Indeed, the boundary itself frequently dissolves in the ambivalence of a twilight zone, occluded by the continuities. This development reflects one of the most prominent components of modern culture, which I have called elsewhere "the affirmation of ordinary life."[FN 2]
The cultural revolution of the early modern period put the centre of gravity of goodness in ordinary living, production and the family, dethroning the supposedly higher activities of the "good life": contemplation and the citizen life. In this spiritual outlook, a primary concern for the "good life" smacks of pride and self-absorption and is inherently inegalitarian, since the alleged "higher" activities could only be carried out by an elite minority. Our major concern must be our dealings with others, in justice and benevolence and on a level of equality: to increase life, relieve suffering and foster prosperity. To lead one's ordinary life rightly in this way is open to everyone.
This affirmation, which constitutes a major component of our modern ethical outlook, was originally inspired by a mode of Christian piety. It exalted practical agapê and was polemically directed against the pride, elitism and self-absorption of those who believed in "higher" activities or spiritualities.
Consider the Reformers' attack on the supposedly "higher" vocations of the monastic life, which were meant to mark out elite paths of superior dedication. In the Reformers' view, they were in fact deviations into pride and self-delusion. The really holy life for the Christian was within ordinary life itself, living in work and household in a Christian and worshipful manner.
There was an earthly--one might say earthy--critique of the allegedly "higher" here that was then transposed and used as a secular critique of Christianity, and indeed religion in general. Something of the same rhetorical stance adopted by Reformers against monks and nuns is taken up by secularists and unbelievers against Christian faith itself. Christianity, according to the secularists, allegedly scorns the real, sensual, earthly human good for some purely imaginary higher end, the pursuit of which can only lead to the frustration of the real good and to suffering and repression. The motivations of those who espouse this "higher" path are thus suspect.
This critique identifies religion with the purist stance above, or else with a combination of this stance and the stance of complementary symbiosis. The third stance, the stance of agapê/karuna, becomes invisible. That is because the secularist critic has in fact assumed a transformed variant of it.
So we live in the aftermath of a double revolution: first the affirmation of ordinary life, and then its secularized transposition. Our present vertical continuum of spiritualities corresponds to this world, but not just as a reflection. It is also a reaction. Exclusively life-centred spiritualities reflect the eclipse of the transcendent in this world. At the same time, however, they express a dissatisfaction with this world, with its perceived flatness and narrowness and its all-invasive concerns of utility and instrumental reason.
In short, they express awareness of disenchantment as loss, one of the dominant themes of western culture since the eighteenth century. Since the Romantic period, there has been recurrent rebellion against a world in which everything is supposedly to be instrumentalized to life and prosperity. In the context of this broad movement of rebellion in the name of something fuller, deeper or higher, life-centred and transcendent spiritualities can and often do feel their kinship with one another. And that is why the range of spirituality is so different today from any other time in human history.
But there is also another facet of modern spiritual life, a necessary complement to the above: a darker side, if I might use this term without pejorative connotation. Analogously to the way that the matter we know seems to be shadowed by antimatter, the spiritualities of life and transcendence seem to be counterpoised by doctrines of void and death. This is the revolt from within unbelief against the primacy of life--not in the name of something beyond, but more from a sense of being confined and diminished by this primacy.
This view represents an important stream in our culture, woven into the inspiration of poets and writers. Its most influential proponent is undoubtedly Friedrich Nietzsche. And it is significant that the most important antihumanist thinkers of our time, such as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida (and Georges Bataille behind them), all draw heavily on Nietzsche. Both metaphysically and practically, Nietzsche rebelled against the idea that our highest goal is to preserve and increase life and to prevent suffering, and he rejected the egalitarianism underlying the affirmation of ordinary life.
But his rebellion was in a sense also internal. Life itself can push to cruelty, to domination, to exclusion, and indeed does so in its moments of most exuberant affirmation. So this move remains within the modern affirmation of life, since it sees nothing higher than the movement of life itself--the Will to Power. But it chafes at the benevolence, the universalism, the harmony, the order. It wants to rehabilitate destruction and chaos, the infliction of suffering and exploitation, as part of the life to be affirmed. Life properly understood also affirms death and destruction. To pretend otherwise is to try to restrict it, tame it, hem it in and deprive it of its highest manifestations, precisely those manifestations that make it something you can say "yes" to.
A religion of life that would proscribe death-dealing and the infliction of suffering is confining and demeaning. Nietzsche thought of himself as having taken up some of the legacy of pre-Platonic and pre-Christian warrior ethics: their exaltation of courage, greatness, elite excellence. The accusation that modern life-affirming humanism breeds pusillanimity recurs frequently in counter-Enlightenment culture.
Of course, one of the fruits of this counterculture was fascism--to which Nietzsche's influence was not entirely foreign, however true and valid is Walter Kaufmann's refutation of the simple myth that he was a proto-Nazi. But despite this association, the fascination with death and violence recurs, notably in the interest in Bataille, shared by Derrida and Foucault. James Miller's book on Foucault shows the depths of their rebellion against a "humanism" that is a stifling, confining space one has to break out of.[FN 3] So this is an antilife stance that we might place diagrammatically on a second line that diverges at an angle from our vertical continuum.
The Nietzschean understanding of life that can fully affirm itself also in a sense takes us beyond life, and in this it is analogous with other, religious, notions of enhanced life (like the New Testament's "eternal life"). But it takes us beyond by incorporating a fascination with the negation of life, with death and suffering. It doesn't acknowledge some supreme good beyond life, and in that sense rightly sees itself as utterly antithetical to religion.
Perhaps the only way fully to accept the draw towards violence lies somewhere in the turn to transcendence, through the full-hearted love of some good beyond life
I am tempted to speculate here that the perennial human susceptibility to be fascinated by death and violence is at base a manifestation of our nature as homo religiosus. Most historical religion has been deeply intricated with violence, from human sacrifice down to intercommunal massacres, because most historical religion remains only very imperfectly oriented to the beyond. The religious affinities of the cult of violence in its different forms are indeed palpable. From the point of view of someone who acknowledges transcendence, the antilife stance is one of the places our aspiration to transcend most easily goes when religion fails to take us there. Perhaps the only way fully to escape the draw towards violence lies somewhere in the turn to transcendence, through the full-hearted love of some good beyond life.
In any event, with all the continuities, spiritual life in our secular, life-affirming age has taken on an unprecedented shape. On one hand, it is broad, as that of no other age has been; on the other, it has a flip side, which in a sense is its denial but which accompanies it like its shadow.
Charles Taylor is professor of philosophy at McGill University in Montreal and a contributing editor of Compass. His books include Sources of the Self (1989).
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Sony won't confirm it or deny it, and you'd be ridiculed for making the claim in 'informed' internet circles - but the race towards PS4 has begun, with the evidence pointing to a June E3 2012 reveal.
For more opinion and features buy PSM3 online for £4.99 or on Apple Newsstand.
PS3 is only five years into its ten-year life cycle - "I think ten years is the minimum", confirmed outgoing SCEE boss Andrew House in June 2011 - but rumours suggest PS4 development is being fast-tracked with Sony and Microsoft locked in a next-gen 'arms race'; both terrified of what the other may, or may not, be ready to show.
Bottom line: by killing the original Xbox prematurely, Microsoft was able to launch the 360 in Nov 2005, twelve months before PS3 hit Japan in Nov 2006. Only now, five years on, has Sony been able to match 360's installed base, selling PS3 at a loss for years in a bid to catch up - not a scenario they'll be keen to repeat.
The tone was set in March 2011 with Epic Games' next-gen Unreal engine demo. The company passed it off as a hypothetical showpiece - but a deeper strategy is at play. Epic has emerged as the force in current-gen graphics, with its Unreal Engine tech powering series such as Mass Effect, BioShock and Batman. Epic's demo was the first shot in the battle for next gen 'middleware' development tech.
PS3 games are already hard to make, and crafting PS4's ultra-detailed, huge scale, 3D worlds will be even harder. Devs need smart next-gen tools, and whoever leads the way stands to profit for years to come.
Next came E3 in June and - just as it had done six years earlier - Nintendo put a rocket under the industry. This time it announced Wii U, its better-late-than-never HD console.
Despite Nintendo's huge market reach, it's not an overt threat to an established high-end tech player like Sony - in fact, Sony America president Jack Tretton went on record saying they'd not be pushed into a more powerful PlayStation by this new rival. But in hindsight, Wii U still looks like the catalyst for the next chapter of the story.
Spanner in the works
Interestingly, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot contradicted Tretton in at least one interview. "(Wii-U) is sending the message the new transition is going to happen - and we're going to have new machines coming soon." Ubisoft was the first third-party company to demo games on 360 with Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter suggesting Guillemot's claims shouldn't be dismissed.
In August, Square Enix joined Epic by announcing its own next-gen engine. A supposedly internal demo video appeared on YouTube, showing off some truly amazing lighting effects.
By November 2011, insider chatter was of a next-generation Xbox launch in 2013.
On November 13, Edge magazine claimed that Ubisoft (yes, again) were working with next-gen Xbox dev kits, while Sony had shifted one of its internal studios onto PlayStation 4.
Most tellingly, in late November Sony Europe boss Jim Ryan stated: "I think it would be undesirable to be significantly later than the competition (in relation to the next PlayStation console)".
So, in six months between May and November, Sony had shifted from publicly pooh-poohing the idea of a new console to asserting the need to arrive early in the next generation. We now have a console cold war, with Sony and Microsoft locked in a stand-off over who will be the first to commit. One side has to blink first, and sooner rather than later.


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Food & Nutritionals Research
Fruit and Veggie Intake is Poor
Baltimore, Maryland, researchers say that compared to recommendations, consumption of adequate amounts of fruit and vegetable intake is poor.
According to data collected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which was conducted between 1999 and 2002, only 21 percent of adults consumed the two or more servings of fruit and 32 percent consumed the three or more servings of vegetables as recommended by the USDA.
Only 8 percent met both fruit and vegetable recommendations.
"These results further demonstrate the need for widespread public health action for the promotion of healthy diets."
Resveratrol Stimulates Glucose Uptake
Canadian researchers says that resveratrol—a red wine polyphenol—is a "unique agent that selectively stimulates glucose uptake but inhibits mitogenesis in muscle cells, making it a promising agent for the treatment of insulin resistance."
Herbal Extract Lowers After-Meal Insulin Response and BGs
"The extract of Salacia oblonga lowers acute [blood glucose] in persons with type 2 diabetes after a high-carbohydrate meal," say Cincinnati, Ohio, researchers. "The long-term benefits of this herbal extract on [blood glucose] control should be explored within this population to determine its value in the realm of nutritive therapy."
Sixty-six patients with diabetes within a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, three-treatment, crossover design were evaluated. While in a fasted state, the participants received either
- a standard liquid meal containing 110 grams of carbohydrate, 18 grams of protein and 12 grams of fat (control group)
- the control group diet plus 240 mg Salacia oblonga extract
- the control group diet plus 480 mg Salacia oblonga extract
Both levels of the herbal extract significantly decreased the after-meal insulin response and lowered BGs.
Nothing Fishy About Fish Oil's Effects on Diabetes
In research presented at the ADA Scientific Sessions in Washington, D.C., patented Omega-3 fish oil concentrates were found to improve glucose uptake and improve cell viability.
In the study, Arctic Omega, ProOmega, Pro-DHA and Pro-EFA were used. All of these omega-3 fish oil concentrates are manufactured by Nordic Naturals, Inc., of Watsonville, California.
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The Fashion Editor All Black Outfit
Those shoes may seem subtle, but they make a big difference here. Their pointy shape makes them sharper than the average flat, but that delicate little ankle strap sorta makes them feel refined, too. How very French.
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Girls basketball: Whiting cruises past Lake Station
By Tommy Williams Post-Tribune correspondent January 17, 2013 11:12PM
Updated: February 19, 2013 3:18PM
WHITING — The Whiting girls basketball team will get another shot at Bishop Noll.
With their Greater South Shore Conference Tournament semifinal 53-21 win over Lake Station on Thursday night, the Oilers matched their win total of last year with 16.
But there is one blemish on this year's record that still stings the average Oilers fan. That can be rectified as early as Saturday in the conference tournament final.
"It would be a very big game," Whiting guard Abby Bondi said of a rematch with a Bishop Noll team that beat the Oilers in overtime last week, and topped Wheeler in the other semifinal. "It would be bigger than the last time we played them because now we will come out with twice as much fire and twice as much power."
Showing the same fire they as they did Thursday night would suffice.
Oilers coach Kevin Moynihan said he was happy with the intensity his girls showed in their second win over the Eagles this season, jumping out to a 23-7 lead after one quarter and putting it on autopilot the rest of the way.
"The intensity was there the entire game," Moynihan said. "We've been trying to get that defensive intensity we had at the beginning of the season. We didn't allow Lake Station to get into their offense. I think our effort was outstanding tonight."
That effort, especially, on the defensive end, led to what Lake Station coach Kristy Hite called immature mistakes by her team that ended the suspense in this game early.
"We were prepared for them but their pressure beat us today," Hite said. "Last time we played them they didn't pressure us, they just outplayed us."
The Oilers weren't bad from long distance either, hitting seven 3-pointers, with Bondi nailing three of them and scoring a team-high 15 points. Joanna Dwyer had 12 to lead the Eagles.


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Moquin Press Installing a VUTEk Printer from Heidelberg to Enter Grand-Format Market
November 29, 2012Since 1988, Moquin Press has furnished Bay Area printers, print brokers, in-house print shops and designers with specialty printing, diecutting, foil stamping and finishing capabilities. The company operates two Speedmaster XL 105 presses, and a six-color Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 74, as well as three programmable POLAR cutters, a pair of continuous-feed Stahlfolders, and a Diana X115 Auto folder/gluer. The company employs a staff of 105.
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Miley Cyrus Previews 'Adore You' Video
After coming in like a wrecking ball, Miley Cyrus is looking to tone things down with her new visual "Adore You." The twerky pop sensation previewed it on her Instagram, showing a fresh-faced Cyrus in her undergarments tangled in between the sheets. The proper video is set to debut on Vevo on Dec. 26 so not only do the Smilers get to enjoy their Christmas gifts but a new Miley clip. Peep the preview of the turnt down cut off her Bangerz album below.


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1 My dear brothers and sisters, I love you and want to see you. You bring me joy and make me proud of you, so stand strong in the Lord as I have told you. | 1 Therefore, my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand firm in the Lord, dear friends! |
2 I ask Euodia and Syntyche to agree in the Lord. | 2 I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to agree with each other in the Lord. |
3 And I ask you, my faithful friend, to help these women. They served with me in telling the Good News, together with Clement and others who worked with me, whose names are written in the book of life. | 3 Yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow, help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. |
4 Be full of joy in the Lord always. I will say again, be full of joy. | 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! |
5 Let everyone see that you are gentle and kind. The Lord is coming soon. | 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. |
6 Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for every- thing you need, always giving thanks. | 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. |
7 And God's peace, which is so great we cannot understand it, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. | 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. |
8 Brothers and sisters, think about the things that are good and worthy of praise. Think about the things that are true and honorable and right and pure and beautiful and respected. | 8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. |
9 Do what you learned and received from me, what I told you, and what you saw me do. And the God who gives peace will be with you. | 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. |
10 I am very happy in the Lord that you have shown your care for me again. You continued to care about me, but there was no way for you to show it. | 10 I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you have been concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. |
11 I am not telling you this because I need anything. I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have and with everything that happens. | 11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. |
12 I know how to live when I am poor, and I know how to live when I have plenty. I have learned the secret of being happy at any time in everything that happens, when I have enough to eat and when I go hungry, when I have more than I need and when I do not have enough. | 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. |
13 I can do all things through Christ, because he gives me strength. | 13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength. |
14 But it was good that you helped me when I needed it. | 14 Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles. |
15 You Philippians remember when I first preached the Good News there. When I left Macedonia, you were the only church that gave me help. | 15 Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only; |
16 Several times you sent me things I needed when I was in Thessalonica. | 16 for even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid again and again when I was in need. |
17 Really, it is not that I want to receive gifts from you, but I want you to have the good that comes from giving. | 17 Not that I am looking for a gift, but I am looking for what may be credited to your account. |
18 And now I have everything, and more. I have all I need, because Epaphroditus brought your gift to me. It is like a sweet-smelling sacrifice offered to God, who accepts that sacrifice and is pleased with it. | 18 I have received full payment and even more; I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. |
19 My God will use his wonderful riches in Christ Jesus to give you everything you need. | 19 And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. |
20 Glory to our God and Father forever and ever! Amen. | 20 To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen. |
21 Greet each of God's people in Christ. Those who are with me send greetings to you. | 21 Greet all the saints in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send greetings. |
22 All of God's people greet you, particularly those from the palace of Caesar. | 22 All the saints send you greetings, especially those who belong to Caesar's household. |
23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. | 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. |
Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Century Version Online Bible) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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When it's planted with enough room to grow, Loropetalum is a wonderful shrub. Unfortunately, this almost never happens in my neighborhood. Down the street, they're poodled into little foot-wide shrublets (sort of like random bonsai).
A friend has some that were planted several years ago when her whole front yard was redesigned. They are starting to engulf everything around them. I told her the best thing is to take them out, because no room was allotted for them. She doesn't want to do that. So I offered to prune them, because I know if her yard guys do it, they'll probably look ugly (and I'll have to look at them every day). But they're only a foot or two high, and 6 to 8 feet wide, and I'm wondering if it's an impossible task. Has anyone seen examples of well-pruned loropetalum that were planted in too-small spaces? |
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- Posted by foxesearth 8b GA/FL line (My Page) on Thu, Apr 24, 08 at 20:01
I've seen more examples of loropetalums that were, like your friend's, pruned into 8 foot wide pill boxes. I can show you pictures of mine that I keep pruned to size. I cut back to a main stem. It will probably not be possible to complete the pruning in one session. |
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A new twist on an old time favorite from Rose & Ivy. They took their traditional jelly made with sweet bell peppers, Scotch Bonnet peppers and pure cane sugar and added roasted pecans to create a delicious taste. Excellent with cheese. Natural
Southern Pecan Pepper Jelly
by Mary from Amherst, VA
Had the Rose & Ivy Pecan Cheese Bake at a party Friday night and it was out of this world tasty! I dont usually like dips but tried this and loved it.


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I think AR6 seasonhas been pretty weak so far,so I amdefinitely looking forward tothe next race.
I am sooo not looking forward to ROmber....again. Yeesh...a lot of people try out for these shows? Why are we getting recycled reality people?
Well, fellow AMAZING RACE fans...Season 7 will supposedly kick off March 1! And, we supposedly already know the identity of one team. As if 2 seasons of SURVIVOR just wasn't enough, Boston Rob and Amber (aka, Romber) will be on the Race. This is just like what CBS did to Alison from BIG BROTHER 4...if they want ratings to skyrocket, put Rupert and Laura on...that will get them! Anyway...I'm looking forward to another great Race, how about you all?
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I think AR6 seasonhas been pretty weak so far,so I amdefinitely looking forward tothe next race.
I am sooo not looking forward to ROmber....again. Yeesh...a lot of people try out for these shows? Why are we getting recycled reality people?
always plotting, planning, and looking forward to our next adventure...
Because CBS is too lazy to cast others...they only do it for SURVIVOR and BIG BROTHER. (Sorry...it's habit for me to capitalize the names of my shows)
Like I said, Rupert and Laura would skyrocket the ratings...about 35 million people voted for Rupert to win the America's Tribal Council. I sincerely hope Romber makes it to leg 2, and then gets Philiminated.
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I think Rob and Amber make a cute couple. I just don't want to see a reality t.v. show with Amber and Rob in the delivery room....
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definitely love Amazing Race, however those two i could do without.
I agree, Romber is a very good couple and I wish them the best of luck in the future...but if they win, they will hav $2,250,000.00 just from reality TV show winnings, and that's not counting any winnings from SURVIVOR: THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK and SURVIVOR: MARQUESAS, which was, granted, not a whole lot. I don't ever want to see Romber on another reality show ever, with the exception (maybe) of their wedding, if it's televised.Originally Posted by zcook9
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*BLEEP*, my biker brethren eliminated the first round! i'm so ashamed, i don't think i can watch this season now.
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Abu Shurayh al-`Adawî relates that the Prophet said, "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should honor his neighbor. And whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should honor his guest and give him his due." It was asked, "Messenger of Allah, what is his due?" He said, "His due is a day and, and he should entertain his guest for three days. Whatever exceeds that is charity for him. And whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should speak a good word or remain silent." [Sahîh al-Bukhârî (5560)] Scholars differ regarding what is meant by this "due". Some say it refers to giving the guest the best food and hospitality for that first day. During the other days, the hospitality should be according to the norms of the household. Scholars who hold this view differ as to whether the first day is inclusive in the three or if the three days are additional to it. Al-Khattâbî and many others regard the hadîth to refer to three days in total. Other scholars say the due is something unrelated to the hospitality. It is to give the guest provisions of a day and night when he continues on his journey. The hospitality is for the guest to be able to stay for three days. This is in accordance with some narrations of the hadîth which read: "His hospitality is for three days, and his due is a day and a night." Ibn Hajar al-Asqalânî gives the following interpretation in Fath al-Bârî (17/324):
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I posted this before, but the board gobbled it up.
If I eat tofu, it goes right through me. Nuff said about that. I just cannot digest the stuff, and yet I am an "0".
However, I do very well on my once-a-week treat of "Chocolate Cookie Crunch" Tofutti ice cream, and other soy products have not bothered me, such as wheat free soy sauce.
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