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Oh my gosh!!!!! GOOD FOR YOU GUYS! We can't wait to hear all about your adventures. We miss you lots and wish you the best times ever. Obviously you will be busy bees for quite some time, so I will make our inquiries yes or no answers,'k? Did you both quit your j-o-b-s? Did you sell your house? Are you doing the 'Europe on a dime' kind of thing? WILL YOU KEEP IN TOUCH? Lots and lots of love,
Laurie and Cindy
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We will start in Europe for about 3 months. Then will head to Mexico, Africa, and Seychelles for some volunteer work with GVI. Any others out there who have worked with GVI? I would love to hear your experiences!
Certainly more to come shortly!
Live Life Large!!
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We will most certainly keep in touch! This Travel Blog will be the conduit to where we are and what we are doing! Most likely to see some VERY interesting photos and videos too I am sure!!!
As far as Europe on a dime.. Well, I am doing Europe on a Dime, Lisa wants to do Europe on a DOLLAR!!!
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Hi Guys, it's me Inetta B...... I'm so excited that you two can travel and do really cool and exciting things around the world, while the rest of us have to stay at work...LOL... But the other cool thing is that we get to experience it all with you!! Take care, and I look forward to sharing this experience with you through Travelpod.... Lisa don't forget, the 'get it girl' bag is still packed!
were are my friends???
do you lot love me anymore... I have not received any mail since july. :(
Love you two
Hey Cheryl & Lisa, I see the traveling is going great and I am glad I can share all these experiences with you. We all take adventures in life some are new jobs or careers and others maybe be selling off all your possessions and traveling around the world. I look forward to sharing my adventures of my new career with you as you share your with me....I look forward to hearing from you soon....Smooches


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PROS: Excellent resolution ond powerful zoom
PROS: Great camera for all around for features and ease of use
CONS: NONE with other people commenting on the lens cap. Well I am glad it pops of easy. I know people forget to remove it and instead of ruining the zoom the cap was designed to pop off easy.
PROS: Great product... the pictures quality range from okay (night & indoors) to superb (outdoor scenery). The reversible lcd screen is great and the viewfinder is good quality. The camera is a good compromise between weight and functionality - important when travelling around the world. It survived conditions from snow through to tropical rain and searing heat!
CONS: The cap for the lens is a real let down for the camera.
PROS: External flash option. Solid build. Easy controls, once learned. Versatile, from auto to full manual. Whisper quite zoom/focusing. Faster Digic III sensor. 8 megapixels.
CONS: 32Mb SD Card
PROS: Solid build. Much improved swiveling LCD screen. Easy controls, once learned. Versatile, from auto to full manual. Whisper quite zoom/focusing. External flash option. People again complain of no RAW option. People who use RAW are in the minority and won't be missed with the majority. Faster Digic III sensor. 8 megapixs.
CONS: Sensor not sensitive to low contrast objects. Keeps hunting for proper focus and sometimes end up with blurry selection.
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The barkeeper looked up at the tall man standing in front of the counter. Unkempt, greasy, shoulder length hair and a chin full of untended stubble.
Looking further down, he took in the ragged, muddy clothes. There was some blackish-red stain in the material whose origin Butterbur didn't even want to think about. And worst was that he stank!
He shook his head at the man. Rangers were definitively not civilized folks. How they would find a wife and sire some children looking like they did was beyond the Bree-man.
"How can I help you Mr…?"
"Strider," came the reply. Butterbur would have groaned had he been alone. He did not even have a proper name!
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This is not democracy, people in Argentina don't have the power.
TE shows the world what Argentina really is, a huge mess, like 10 years before.
The holidays seem to inspire belligerence instead of cheer in Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's president. She has spent most of the southern-hemisphere spring battling with her country's foreign creditors, media companies and trade unions. Now, in a worrying sign for the health of Argentina's democratic institutions, she has picked a fight with the judiciary as well.
The independence of Argentina's courts has always been precarious. During the 1990s Carlos Menem, then the president, expanded the Supreme Court from five members to nine and packed it with unqualified yes men, making a laughingstock out of the country's highest tribunal.
The damage to the institution's credibility was largely repaired by Néstor Kirchner, who took office a year after Argentina's 2001-02 economic collapse. He defied his Peronist party's tradition of trampling on the judiciary by appointing a series of highly respected judges, and bringing the high court back down to its original size. Ms Fernández, his wife, was then a senator and pushed those reforms through the legislature.
However, Kirchner's handling of the lower courts was far less noble. In 2006 he changed the composition of the council that nominates judges in order to give the executive a veto. Overall, the Argentine courts are still in dire straits: a recent report published by the World Economic Forum ranked it 133rd of 144 countries in judicial independence, and below all other Latin American countries except Paraguay, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
In 2007 Ms Fernández ran to succeed her husband, and won easily. He died in 2010, and the following year she was re-elected with 54% of the vote. In both campaigns, she promised to bolster Argentina's fragile democratic institutions. However, her appreciation for judicial independence seems to have vanished now that the courts have begun ruling against her.
The president's primary beef with the judiciary involves the courts' handling of her conflict with Grupo Clarín, Argentina's biggest media conglomerate. In 2009 Congress passed a law that would force the company, whose reporters have been sharply critical of the government, to divest the vast majority of its television and radio stations within a year. Clarín immediately secured an injunction preventing the implementation of this provision for three years, to allow time for the company's challenge to the law's constitutionality to be heard.
Ms Fernández did everything within her power to run out the clock on the injunction. That would allow the law to take effect and force Clarín to sell its assets before a judge could rule that the requirement was unconstitutional. In the two months before it was set to expire on December 7th, the government requested the recusal of nearly all the judges involved with the case, on the grounds that they had compromising ties to Clarín—ranging from attending conferences organized by the company's subsidiaries to having previously ruled in favour of its affiliates. Meanwhile, in the court of public opinion, the president's spokesmen regularly touted the deadline as a death knell for the country's hegemonic media "monopoly".
The judiciary, however, would not be cowed. On December 4th, the court in charge of the case rejected the two of the recusal requests. Two days later, a group of judges' associations published a harshly worded press release warning that the "excessive use of recusals" was a threat to the courts' constitutionally guaranteed autonomy, and "as a consequence, to all citizens of the nation." On the eve of the deadline, the tribunal issued another injunction, which extended the stay until a final decision on the constitutionality of the media law is taken.
Once the new injunction had stymied the government's strategy of delay, the president reversed direction overnight, and began pushing for a quick ruling on the constitutionality of othe law. Making use of a new power recently approved by Congress, the executive asked the Supreme Court to bypass the lower tribunals and rule on the law as soon as possible, owing to its "institutional gravity". On December 10th, the high court rejected the request.
This show of judicial independence has enraged Ms Fernández. She first dispatched Martín Sabbatella, whom she designated to oversee the implementation of the media law, to call the new injunction "shameful" and claim the judiciary was "not prepared to fight with the corporations, because a large part of it is colonized by those same corporations." Later on, following a controversial ruling that freed 13 suspects in a high-profile case of human trafficking, the president lashed out at the courts herself, accusing the judges of corruption. "I don't have proof," she admitted, "but I have no doubt that when there is money involved, no matter what you do, they don't care." She also called for a nebulous "democratisation" of the judiciary. That could simply refer to the implementation of an already-approved jury system. But it could also be shorthand for choosing judges by popular vote—a reform that would require amending the constitution, which Ms Fernández would have to do anyway if she wants to run for a third term in 2015.
Perhaps the most succinct summary of the government's position was provided on December 17th by Juan Manuel Abal Medina, the cabinet chief, who called the tribunal handling the Clarín case a "shit chamber". The risk is that such attacks on the prestige of the judiciary will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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This is not democracy, people in Argentina don't have the power.
TE shows the world what Argentina really is, a huge mess, like 10 years before.
Argentina is imploding, from looting to political hysteria, the government is only in power due to an iron fist compatible to some to histories most despotic regimes.
Kirchner's colonial attempts on the Falklands are in the same category as the persecution of minority groups in 1930s continental Europe, and based on as many lies.
The power grab over industry, media and now even the courts resonates with all known tyrannical governments.
Argentina doesn't have prisons, they are more concentration camps:http://www.argentinaindependent.com/feature/tools-of-torture-a-look-inside-argentina%E2%80%99s-jails/
Reporters Without Borders has reported that officials use violence and intimidation against journalists. In fact, persecution of anyone that does not tow the official line in rife.
So, why do you lie about Argentine government?
The Economist, a supposedly liberal magazine, continues to trash Argentina while it treats the Britains retrograde political system with a silk glove and even elevates as an example of democracy.
Let me tell you one thing, monarchy is not democracy, referendums in occupied territory either.
TE wrote "She has spent most of the southern-hemisphere spring battling with her country's foreign creditors, media companies and trade unions."
The country has fought against vulture funds, which hold 7% of the Argentine public debt, from 2005.
The country has tried to apply a Media Law from 2009, and just only a Media group says they aren't going to obey the Law.
The Unions are protesting in the same way they protest in Europe.
TE: "The independence of Argentina's courts has always been precarious."
TE: "The damage to the institution's credibility was largely repaired by Néstor Kirchner" " Ms Fernández, his wife, was then a senator and pushed those reforms through the legislature."
Right. In the case of Supreme Court, members are the same now they were then.
" the government requested the recusal of nearly all the judges involved with the case, on the grounds that they had compromising ties to Clarín—ranging from attending conferences organized by the company's subsidiaries to having previously ruled in favour of its affiliates."
Well, it is a part of the problem, and it is the damage Carlos Menem has done to Argentine justice. It is not a "good" Justice.
" the president lashed out at the courts herself, accusing the judges of corruption. "I don't have proof," she admitted, "but I have no doubt that when there is money involved, no matter what you do, they don't care." "
Exactly. It is the same situation of the trips made by Judicial members payed by Clarín.
I want to say two things:
First, It's clear Supreme Court changed during Néstor Kirchner's administration is better than every Supreme Court we had in the past, but the rest of the Judicial system is old, very old, maybe most of the was nominated by the last Dictatorship.
Second, current Media Law is not a Law made by the Kirchners, in fact this is a old proyect (ten years) and it was made by a lot of people and they wanted a democratization of the comunication in Argentina. In others words, they wanted to avoid what is happening now in Mexico.
In this point, this Law is needed by everybody.
Please, don't get us wrong. Not all Argentinians agree with the president. In fact, there are millions who don't. What's more, they dream of a day when she is no longer in power. The thing is that when it is time to vote, it is very hard to fight against the masses who only remember 2 things=the meagre grant they are given by the government (less than one hundred dollars a month) and the LED TV they have recently been given by the government as well. These people just shouldn't vote. They can't get the big picture.
"Argentina is imploding, from looting to political hysteria, the government is only in power due to an iron fist compatible to some to histories most despotic regimes."
How many Provinces are intervened in this years? No one, the longest period ever.
How many people of the politic opposition is persecuted or jailed? No one.
How many journalist are jailed? No one.
How many bloggers, or people who protest by internet, are jailed? No one.
How many people are asked for asylum in others countries? No one.
So, why do you lie about Argentine Government?
Argentina's current leaders deserve all the trashing they get. They are ruining a once fabulously wealthy country while enriching themselves obscenely. They are a disgrace to Latin America and a burden that countries like Brazil have to endure. Boudou and Ciccone: do you think a "retrograde" society like Britain would tolerate that?
Unasur, With all due respect. First: please don't quote Wikipedia because the K information contained therein is provided by the K administration. Hence, it is biased. Second: "This Law is needed by everybody". Wrong. I can assure you that the millions (literally) of people who are under-nourished, who need a house, drinkable water and sewers, who can't have a job and are unable to get any education whatsoever, who live in extreme poverty and do not have access to proper medical attention, well, I can assure you that the Media Law won't solve any of their problems. It's all about a senseless war promoted by CFK: the govt vs Clarin. It's all about CFK's greed to monopolize the media. But as George Orwell said: Everybody looses with war. There will be no winners. Ultimately, the poor and the helpless will remain poor and helpless, and that's very sad. CFK is a multimillionaire who has no regard for her people and those who voted for her.
I normally don't agree with the articles written here about Argentina, which only seem to pick on "negative" things and totally omit the positive ones that occurred over the past years...But this article is spot on...the K government needs to understand that the judiciary is, should and must be an independent power this is what makes a country fairer and more democratic, providing a counter balance of the already overwhelming power of the government (executive power) - Some ruling will go their way, and some ruling will not - they need to stop attacking the courts and they need to respect their autonomy...otherwise we will end up like Cuba...god prevents this please!
You may want to start asking yourself ¿Why is it that Argentina gets so much bad press? not only from TE, but from everywhere.
Don't cry Argentina you voted her in by a large majority.
Carmen Aristegui's TV programme with Frank La Rue, from The United Nations, talking about the problem of the Big Media in some places of the World.
From CNN in spanish, Recorded in Mexico City.
The short video, where they talked (in a good way) about Argentine Media Law.
As argentine I feel ashamed of people like deniese2012 who think that only the upper class is entitled to vote.
Even the distinguished deniese2012, who thinks she "gets the big picture", believes a very common myth: that most voters got an LCD to support the government.
Noble and learned deniese2012, that is both not true and unworkable.
Gobierno que no transa (si, es con s, evidentemente tu castellano también es pobre)con nadie? JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA. Dedicáte a la comedia porque lo tuyo es patético. Monsanto, Barrick, Chevron, etc, etc, etc. Boudou, Jaime, DeVido, Shocklender, el Cambalache más grande de la historia argentina! Yo perdí un familiar en ONCE y todavía no hay respuesta. Entendés?? Y los votos los sacaron el año pasado. No son eternos querido. Ya no hay dictadura, aunque a vos te encantaría.
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Unasur, please ask somebody to edit your comments. Very poor English and very poor information. Qué lástima que te estemos pagando tu sueldo entre todos para que siempre entres en The Economist cuando te alertan que hay un artículo critico a este gobierno K. No se puede defender a un gobierno tan visiblemente corrupto, y vos lo sabés.
Unasur lies because he/she is being payed by the Kirchner government. All of us who have state jobs feel the pressure to restrain from criticizing this government. We even receive internal memos that outline what we have to think/say/silence. The whoe country is becoming a concentration camp.
Unasur, I am, in fact, Einstein's niece.
Prisions have problems in every country in Latin America, (you should read an article wrote by TE).
Respect to Reporters without borders, they usually give recomendations to Governments, but the most important thing they do is their annual report.
Unasur, ¿preferirías que hablemos en castellano así me entendés mejor? Voy a hacerlo bilingüe, y listo. Unasur, would you rather I write in Spanish so you can understand me better? Either you don't handle the English language correctly or you are just talking nonsense. I never said Wikipedia is dominated by the K administration. I said that the information about the K administration that is reflected in Wikipedia is biased. You can look up any name or organization K-related in Wikipedia and all you will find is K-propaganda. Try it. Look for Colina, Boudou, La Cámpora, Aníbal Fernández, Milagros Sala, Vatayón Militante, whatever... Understand? Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia where each one loads the information they want. I, for instance, could say I'm Einstein's niece in Wikipedia, and who can challenge me? Nobody. So please, don't quote Wikipedia as a source. That's all. And CFK miente (lies), not Clarin. The thing is that CFK doesn't want us to know the awful truth about her corrupt administration. Thus, she monopolizes the media. At this stage, 85% of the media belongs to the K administration... talking about monopolios!
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When God Dwells in our Midst
There's a biblical prophecy I've freshly discovered. I eagerly await its fulfillment and am doing whatever I can, whatever I must, to hasten it. The prophecy is in Zechariah 8. It begins with a vision of what a community looks like when God reigns within it. But here's how the chapter ends; here is the vision's crescendo: "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: In those days ten men from different nations and languages of the world will clutch at the sleeve of one Jew. And they will say, 'Please let us walk with you, for we have heard that God is with you'"(8:23).
That's evangelism. Good news is embodied. It is a way of life, a thing plain for all to see. The evangelized, not the envangelists, do all the talking: let us go with you! The lost take the initiative. And the lost come from every tribe and tongue and nation.
This is the dream of every church – for God's life among us to be so obvious, so fragrant, so magnetic, so contagious, that all peoples clamor for the privilege of joining. Rather than us grabbing hold of people, people grab hold of us. Rather than us telling anyone, "God is with us," they tell one another that.
All these things happen "in those days," which refers to a promise God makes at the beginning of Zechariah 8: "I a returning to Mount Zion, and I will live in Jerusalem" (8:3). The vision is a description of what happens in, to, and through God's people when God dwells in their midst.
Several things happen in this vision but let me draw out one: there is a breaking of ethnic, cultural, and political divides through an in-breaking of the gospel. "People from nations and cities around the world will travel to Jerusalem…[saying], 'Come with us to Jerusalem to ask the Lord to bless us. Let's worship the Lord of Heaven's Armies. I'm determined to go.' Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord" (8:20-22).
Good News, the gospel is for all nations. It embraces and welcomes all languages – Urdu speakers and Inuit and Norwegians and remote tribes tucked in the folds of Burmese mountain jungles. It's for the homeless under the bridges of Los Angeles, the untouchables in the streets of Calcutta, the drug addicted in sweaty apartments not far from where you live. It's for rich people who live atop hills and poor people who live in ditches. It's for the old man in his lonely room, and the teenage girl struggling to find her identity, the single mom wondering where the next meal's coming from. It's for the discouraged dentist, the confused mill-worker, the weary postman. It's for everyone, everywhere.
This is evangelism Bible-style. This is evangelism that is cross-cultural, transpolitical, multiethnic, intergenerational, class defying, and wildly bountiful.
And natural. No one strategizes. No one takes classes for this. It's just that a people who live with God in their midst evoke, simply and powerfully, far and wide, curiosity about God. A community like that makes others envious in the best sense: we become attractive and compelling to the world.
But stop.
God asks us to do something before he releases any of this: he asks us to do justly.
"But this is what you must do: Tell the truth to each other. Render verdicts in your courts that are just and that lead to peace. Don't scheme against each other. Stop your love of telling lies that you swear are the truth. I hate all these things, says the Lord" (8:16-17).
A crucial shift in Zechariah 8 happens midway through. It's announced by the phrase, "But this is what you must do." Up until this moment, Zechariah 8 has been a litany of things God promises to do. Right after this moment, it continues with things God promises to do. But inserted in the middle of the prophecy is something God requires us to do.
Act justly.
God hates injustice. He hates deceit. Unless we deal fairly and honestly with one another, unless we have a bone-deep commitment to justice and truth, all the good God intends to do for us and through us gets undone by us.
We have a passion for sharing God's truth with the lost – for helping friends, neighbors, loved ones, our communities to come to see know, and love God. But as we hold on to this hope, we must also understand that God requires us to do justly. For if we are not living out the redemptive, just, and whole Christian life, it can be hard to recommend it to other folk.
A Sweet Tooth for Black Diamonds
I've never snowboarded, but I've skied most my entire life.
My first time, age 12, I fell off the T-bar half way up the track, which forced me to the backside of the mountain: a jagged edge of wild and dangerous steepness, thickly hummocked with moguls. The run was ranked, in the parlance of ski hills, black diamond. Experts only. Too stupid to walk to base, I hurled myself down that slope headlong, skis crisscrossing, poles windmilling. It was pure slapstick. It was a burlesque of pratfalls and face-plants.
I lived to tell the story, and ever after have had a sweet tooth for black diamonds.
But, as I said, I've never snowboarded. I watched, 25 or so years back, as the first few boarders appeared on ski hills, timid and klutzy. I watched as their numbers doubled, quadrupled, exploded, and their skill grew. Now half the mountain teems with them, swooping and soaring.
Though the sport bears a rough resemblance to skiing – both involve strapping your feet to a thin slippery blades, standing on some frozen wind-scoured pinnacle, and flinging yourself to the wind – I can tell it's very different. Different muscles, different technique, different sense of balance. Different as riding a motorcycle is from driving a car. Different as rowing a boat is from paddling a kayak.
Different as pastoring is from professoring.
Which is my real point. I finished, in early December, my first semester of professoring (I made that word up) after 24 years of pastoring. Though the two vocations bear rough resemblance to each other – both involve strapping your heart to some burning concern, standing on some rickety lonely perch, and flinging yourself to the wind – I can tell you they're very different. Different muscles, different technique, different sense of balance.
A 3-hour lecture, for instance, has little in common with a 35-minute sermon (other than, when you're off your game, your listeners experience both as eternal drudgery and existential misery). The lecture is expansive, the sermon distilled. The lecture aims for breadth, the sermon conciseness. The lecture seeks to range over wide ground, the sermon to get to the point. In a lecture, you pace yourself. In a sermon, you uncork yourself.
But more than that, the rhythms of the two vocations are vastly different. In the pastorate, there is no natural beginning or end. Everything flows into everything else, world without end. There is a beauty to this: stay long enough, and the child you dedicate becomes the young woman whose marriage you perform who becomes the young mother whose child you dedicate, and so on. The academy, on the other hand, has a very precise timetable of beginnings and endings – classes start this date, run these weeks, end that day. You have an intense relationship with a small clutch of people for a short stretch of time. Then it's done. You stop, breathe, re-gather, and start again.
It has been difficult to make the transition – it's been embarrassing and frustrating at times to go from something I'd attained some mastery of to something I'm a rank and clumsy novice at.
But the challenge has also been invigorating. I loved my first term. I love this new sport. It's snapped me out of a trance of repetition, pulled me out of a rut of complacency. It's stirred in me fresh hunger to learn. It's awakened instincts and muscles never used or long dormant.
It's forced me to the backside of the mountain.
And there I've discovered, I still have a sweet tooth for black diamonds.
In This Town There's a Church…
This Sunday is Father's Day. Auspiciously, or ironically, it is also my last Sunday at the church I've pastored for 17 years, New life Church in Duncan, British Columbia.
17 years, 7.5 months, to be exact.
I run a gauntlet of emotions: sadness, thankfulness, anxiousness, fretfulness, anticipation, just to name the more obvious ones. All come wheeling toward me without warning. One minute I bask in peace, the next I churn with dread
It's a weighty thing, to have given nearly two decades of my life to a work that, at 1 PM June 16, I must relinquish entirely. Though I've not once doubted the rightness of my decision to leave pastoral ministry in order to teach pastoral ministry, I've many times tasted the wild sorrow of that decision.
This Sunday, I deliver my last sermon at the church. I hope I have a calm heart and a clear mind to do it. I hope it's a word in season, and a word that lingers. I hope it honors God.
I hope it blesses people.
But how do I sum up a ministry of 17 years? On what do note do I end it?
With a verse. An unlikely one. 1 Samuel 9:6:
But the servant replied, "Look, in this town there is a man of God; he is highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let's go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take."
The context: Saul (later to be king of Israel) and his servant are on an errand to find Saul's father's stray donkeys. They're having no luck. It's worse than a wild goose chase: it's a stubborn donkey chase. Most of us can relate.
Saul's freaking out, worried about his father being worried about him. Worrying about other people's worry is worry squared. So the servant suggests they consult the Prophet-Judge, Samuel. Samuel's reputation proceeds him. He is known for his godliness, his respectability, his truthfulness, his wisdom. Evidently, he's also known for his humility and approachability: he's someone who is not high and mighty that he minds dealing with commonplace practical matters – runaway barnyard animals, and the like. The man of God is no cave-dwelling mystic: he cares about ordinary people and their everyday problems.
With a little tweaking, this verse could serve as compelling vision statement for New Life:
The people of the Cowichan Valley say, "Look, in this town there is a church of God; it is highly respected, and everything they say is true. Let's go there now. Perhaps they will tell us what way to take."
In the years I've been at New Life, I have watched this church grow into exactly this reputation. I have watched the community turn increasingly to us, asking our help in practical matters, wanting us to speak a word of truth in love, seeking our counsel about what way to take.
With a church like that in town, there's no telling how many stubborn donkeys will find their way home.
Being Your Own Truancy Officer
I've spent the last quarter century, minus a year, in a role that no one, least not I, ever would have predicted or chosen for me: the pastorate. Before Jesus accosted me at age 21, I never really knew such creatures existed, and to the extent I did they seemed odd to me, eccentric, fusty, otherworldly. After my conversion, pastors still struck me as a breed apart, though now I saw them as oracular, unerring, heavenly, but still odd. They were sages chastened with holiness, saints burdened with searing vision.
Then I became one. And I found out an awkward truth: most of us are chronically ordinary. Pastors are the lepers who find bread, and have just enough wit or altruism to announce it to the city (see 2 Kings 7:3-16). But otherwise, we battle all the same emotions and temptations everyone else does, but do it in a kind of glass house, which mostly makes it worse and sometimes makes it better. We struggle with anger, fear, loneliness, insecurity. We want to eat too much, sleep too late, be praised beyond what's wise or warranted. Criticism stings us, and too much embitters us. We feel weak a lot, sometimes theologically sketchy, often spiritually shallow. We don't pray enough, exercise enough, study enough. We long for God, but we also long for comfort, and salt, and a good night's sleep, and find the two longings at odds, and often the latter one winning.
One thing's helped (well, dozens of things have helped, but I'll speak of one): pushing myself to engage further training. I found that if I wasn't the champion of this, no one would be: not the elders, not the congregation, not the staff, not my friends. In the pastorate, no one but you worries about your ongoing education. I'm not saying no one notices it: many complain about your deficiencies and inefficiencies. They lament your poor sermons, weak administration, inept leadership, questionable doctrine. They wish you were smarter or faster or deeper. It's just that no one will send you back to school as the remedy – and if they do, it's probably a last ditch effort before they fire you.
But this is true of everyone: in most things, we're the only ones who require excellence of ourselves. Everyone else tolerates our mediocrity, until they don't. But by then it's too late.
So I learned to send myself back to school. I learned to be my own Truancy Officer, to grab myself by the ear and march myself back to the classroom. Over the years, I've taken online courses and community-college courses; I've attended pastors' conferences, worship seminars, preaching workshops. I've taken summer classes, covering everything from theology to philosophy to psychology to history to poetry to art to literature to leadership. The curriculum's been eclectic; I've been omnivorous.
This morning, for instance, I was looking at Regent College's Summer School for 2013. It's got me drooling, and scheming how to fit at least one course in. What especially caught my eye is their list of Art & Faith courses – a course on J.R.R. Tolkien, one on the power of documentary film, another on Christian themes in Hollywood movies, and more. This is the sort of thing that, through the years, has stretched me, helped me stay fresh, and kept me just off-balance enough to make me moderately interesting. Check it out at www.regent-college.edu/summer.
Or I'd love to see you in class at my new digs at Ambrose College University this fall or winter.
Just decide to become your own Truancy Officer. No one else will do it for you.
How to Have a Beautiful Soul (or Avoid an Ugly One)
I was rereading parts of Feodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground this past week. Dostoevsky – a 19th Century Russian writer – is among the pantheon of Great Authors whose works, though rooted deeply in time and place, transcend them. His massive sprawling novel The Brothers Karamazov stands as one of the uncontested masterpieces of world literature. It is in my top five favorite novels.
Notes from Underground is something else entirely. It's the jumbled confession of a jaded twisted man, immersed in his own torment and misery. It amounts to one of the bleakest portraits ever rendered of man alone, man without friend, without God, without hope. "I am a sick man," the confession begins. "I am a spiteful man." Thus launches a misanthropic tirade of burning resentment, choking self-pity, and vicious self-loathing.
The book proved prophetic. Increasingly, the nameless anti-hero of the Notes resembles us, or we him: a people longing for the admiration of others without the burden of them, wanting applause without having to earn it, bearing grudges for the slightest slights. A people who throw off God, thinking it's liberation, and who only end up impoverished and enslaved, captive to our own dark selves.
Dostoevsky was a Christ-follower – a troubled one, to be sure, but with a deep grasp of God's extravagant grace. His later works – The Idiot, Crime & Punishment, The Brothers K – are breath-taking testaments to the transforming and liberating power of the Christ who meets even the least of us in the most unlikely places.
The relationship in The Brothers K between the simple saintly Alyosha and the brilliant embittered – and rabidly atheistic – Ivan is alone worth the price of that book and the effort of reading it. Ivan's logic is hard to refute, but Alyosha's life is hard to resist. We find the atheist semi convincing, but the saint entirely compelling. Alyosha's soul draws us with its beauty. Ivan's soul repels us with its ugliness.
It strikes me, leafing through the Notes, that Dostoevsky was sketching all this out, and with it issuing a warning: that among the many horrors of rejecting Christ, not least is a soul that grows ugly.
Thus I begin my confession: I am a forgiven man. I am a thankful man.
My First Time Base Jumping!
I wrote this in my book Spiritual Rhythm a few years ago:
The fastest growing sport in Norway is wingsuit jumping. It's the pastime of lunatics, or it's what warrior-knights do in an age without dragons. It requires steel nerves, a cool-head, a touch of madness. You must be able to look fast-approaching catastrophe in the face, and whoop.
I go onto to describe the equipment: a kind of giant flying squirrel bodysuit that turns the jumper, splayed wide open, into a human kite, sans string. The sport, also called base jumping, has become a worldwide phenomenon.
I did it last weekend.
Not literally. I'm neither brave nor crazy enough for that. I did it figuratively, except with all the same sensations I imagine base-jumpers experience – utmost dread, giddy anticipation, sheer terror, pure exhilaration, an urgent visceral sense that if I live through this it will be one of the most daring things I've ever attempted, and if I don't live I will at least die with a certain flair.
Last weekend I resigned.
I have been in pastoral ministry nearly 24 years, and in my current post over 17. I've loved every day of it, except the days I haven't (usually Mondays, when I nurse a post-sermon hangover and writhe in existential angst about, well, everything). The role has shaped me beyond measure. Being a pastor has done more in me than I have ever done being a pastor. I entered the role soon after my 29th birthday. I will step out of the role just past my 53rd. Between those two milestones lies a universe. I am not the same man. And yet, I am more myself than ever. The pastorate has been trial by ordeal and foretaste of heaven, often on the same day. I have failed miserably and succeeded beyond my wildest hopes. I am loved, and I am despised. I have been a prophet, and a fool. I have poured myself out like a drink offering, and sometimes squandered myself like a cheap piñata. It has been awesome, and burdensome, glorious, and tedious, and altogether beautiful.
And last Sunday, I quit.
Well, not exactly. I announced to my congregation that I would be stepping down as their pastor on June 16. They were justly slightly more shocked than I was. I truly thought I'd be here until roll call.
I do have a landing spot (we're back to the base jumping metaphor): Ambrose College in Calgary, Alberta – my birth town, now grown vast and rich, but no warmer come winter. I have been appointed Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Ambrose Seminary. I start August 1.
Maybe the letter I read my congregation last Sunday best explains all that. Please click this link to see that. Letter
I covet your prayers for me and my family, and also for New Life Church.
Pray we all land, if not softly, at least intact.


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Dubai: If you're always faced with a dilemma of leaving that Dh10 or Dh20 bill to the waiter after a meal, fret not as you are not alone.
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To tip or not to tip after a meal in Dubai?
As per tipping etiquette in Dubai, it is customary to give 10 to 15 per cent tip
TIPs= To Insure Prompt Service. So if you like great service, TIP promptly.
sage, dubai, United Arab Emirates
the 10% in the bill does not mean that it will end with the employee , i know in most hotels where the 10 % is NOT given to the emloyees .....TIP for the good service
Maxwell, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Would like to leave a tip in a coffee shop or a restaurant as the workers make a living out of it too. However i have my reservations of a tip due to service. I have faced a lot of racism in restaurants based on the color of my skin, yep i do get what i want but with a frown, what do i do then ? Be happy about it. It is generous and ethical to leave a tip as far i would go.
Arjun, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
There should not be much fuss about tipping, after all everywhere in the world most of the hotel waiters come into low paid category considering this if they get something extra by customers it should be welcomed and encouraged.
Zakir kakamari, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
When I first came here in Dubai my first job is as a waiter. So I understand why some customers are not very keen in tipping (to ensure promptness) to their attendants. Surely, I understand TIP goes for well-served (including taste) food skirted with fast and good delivery services and value for money if we must. When I was still working in a Mexican restaurant, I developed 10 steps to improve our customer service from receiving our guests to escorting them out our premises after their dining, not only to increase our sales but to increase our monthly TIP sharing. However, it is very difficult to be consistent with 100% good service because several factors are affecting it, like the availability of staff because the company can only afford to hire so much and sometimes there are really difficult customers that they don't accept any explanation. To think of it, we are just an casual dining restaurant. Based from my 3 years experience as a waiter in that restaurant, i tried to categorized customers according to tipping habits and should I say friendliness. If you will ask another waiters, for sure they have different categorization. This is purely my experience base on that particular time. If I can only tell you what nationalities I don't want to serve most, I will but it will be racism in certain extent I guess. Please I request you all readers to please always give generous TIP to your attendants (with service charge or without service charge). The salary of the waiters is not that competitive but their job is not that easy most especially on always busy restaurants. They work 10 hours a day or so without over time pay. I always give TIP regardless of the quality of service but I make sure that they received my complaint so next time they know how they will treat me as customer.
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well I do tip irrespective of the service charge mentioned on the bill or not, since most of the hotels though charge service on the bill and it does not get distributed to the staff. I never give coins but only bill as tips. Tipping makes you star among the crowd, for the branding of oneself
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i second indradeep hajra, my brother, my dear friend since a decade.
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Tipping is not the norm in Australia. The minimum wage in Australia is generally quite decent and this is fairly standard across all types of restaurants/hotels around Australia. Tipping staff of any other kind of business is pretty unusual back there.
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While there are residents who know right away how much they would tip a service provider, there are also those who think saying "keep the change," (or literally the loose change left behind), suffices as a 'tip.'
But what really is the rule for tipping? In truth, there is none. History dictates that tipping has always been a voluntary decision of a customer. It has been practiced since the Roman era or possibly older as a way of 'rewarding slaves or servants.' The custom has since evolved and is now commonly practised in many countries, even in the UAE.
"Tipping is widely practised around the world. Even here, you should give at least 10 to 15 per cent at restaurants. You give tips because you're happy with the service," S.M., a Canadian expatriate based in Dubai, told Gulf News.
Emirati student Ahmad Al Nuaimi, generously gives tips but only when the service merits it.
"If there's a service charge indicated in the bill, I don't tip anymore. If not, I give about 10 per cent of the total bill. But if the service is bad, I don't bother giving," he said.
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There are no hard-and-fast rules for tipping in Dubai according to the Dubai Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) but this does not exempt people from giving gratuities.
"As with most, if not all countries, there is no official tipping policy in Dubai but, as is common practice by many worldwide, hotel restaurants tend to include 10 per cent optional service charge on their bills," Majid Al Merri, Director of Hotel Classification, DTCM, told Gulf News, adding that the hotel industry includes a 10 per cent service charge in the bill.
Tipping as a 'reward' is always based on the guest's discretion, Al Merri said. It helps improve the quality of services delivered in a sector that is already known for its high standard of service, he added.
"As tipping is a thank you for good service, it is very common for people within Dubai's service industry to receive good tips. The practice of tipping in the service industry drives the level of service quality up, and is part of the encouragement to deliver the best service that meets the guest expectation," Al Merri said.
In the US, tips received by service workers such as waiters, house cleaners, and others, form a significant part of their income, at times reaching up to 60 per cent, according to PayScale's 2012-2013 Tipping Study.
While there are no studies yet on how tips impact lives of service workers in the UAE, there are those who say that tips are a lifeline for them.
"The staffs use the tips they receive to augment their income to pay for their transport, so it's a big help as well," Robert Fortuno, an executive chef at a café along Jumeirah Beach Road, told Gulf News.
Fortuno said tipping is in their café is centralised or placed in one box and divided among the staff weekly. The same is true for other restaurants in the emirate.
"All the tips are monitored, recorded and divided among the staff so that it's not only the waiters who benefit, but the kitchen staff as well," Fortuno said.
Other service providers, however, can get really lucky especially those working in spas, salons, and hotels, who get to take home their tips directly.
Vinez Contreras, 40, who works in a salon, said the biggest he has ever received from one customer was Dh500.
Julius, a hotel butler, said almost half of the hotel guests he serves give direct tips for service well done. When asked who the most generous tipper is, he said: "Emiratis are the most generous, followed by Qataris, Kuwaitis, and Saudis."
TIP BOX: Below is a guide on tipping around the world. But whenever you're in doubt, ask the locals.
US: Typically expected; Restaurants 15-20 per cent; Cabs 10-15 per cent
Canada: Restaurants 10-15 per cent; Cabs 10 per cent
United Kingdom: Restaurants 10-15 per cent; Taxis 10 per cent
Germany: Restaurants – typically included; Taxis 10-15 per cent
Switzerland: Restaurants and cabs – loose change
Italy: Restaurants 10 per cent optional; Taxis – uncommon
South Korea: Typically not required
Japan: Typically not required
Hong Kong: Restaurants and cabs 10 per cent
Thailand: Typically not required; at restaurants, you can round up the bill
Singapore: Typically not required
Source: The Lonely Planet Book of Everything
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Paris Jackson allegedly attempted to commit suicide on June 5, and her fans are in shock as to why. HollywoodLife.com reported that Paris is "still emotionally devastated" over her father Michael Jackson's death, but it appears that several sad events — including arguments with her aunt Janet Jackson and being cyber bullied — led to her depression and the suicide attempt.
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At only 15 years old, Paris has experienced more in her short life that many teenagers can't even imagine, and she has gone through a lot of heartache. In the timeline of her life, several particularly upsetting events happened to her.
Paris saw her father die – Paris' life was turned upside down by her beloved father Michael Jackson's death in 2009, and her life has never been the same since. Paris reportedly witnessed her father's death, and since he died she has admitted that growing up "sucks" because every day is a day without him.
"I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter," Paris told Glamour. "I'm going to enjoy my childhood, because the older I get, the more it sucks."
She fought with her aunt – Paris and Janet had a huge blowout fight where the "All For You" singer allegedly slapped Paris in July 2012. "You're a spoiled little b****!" Janet allegedly said to Paris.
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Paris was dragged into a custody battle — Paris and her brothers Prince and Blanket were dragged into an ugly custody battle after their grandmother Katherine disappeared. Katherine left the kids traumatized when she went missing for several weeks — she was allegedly kidnapped by her own family — and their uncle TJ tried to get temporary custody.
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Honestly it has to be hard to be a child of mj….
he had been accused several years before these kids came around and truth is, only reason mj went back to the icon he once was, was because he died. Otherwise, he was a drug addict who was judged for his bizzar behavior along with the child molestation accusations from before. And on top of it these kids aren't really his…. those kids don't have his dna. He created this bizzar world for them… I could see why this child is having a hard time copeing. The bad part is SHE WANTS TO BE IN THE LIME LIGHT …. so all her 'dads' sh*t is going to be part of her baggage….
If I was her or any of those kids… I would take a break from the fame and just be a kid.
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Paris, God Bless you my child. Be strong.
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Wishing Paris well. This is a young lady with a wonderful full life ahead of her. This family is dysfunctional. I believe that all 3 of these young people should be taken away from this family along with the wealth that awaits them when they are old enough. I believe that there has to be someone out there that can give these 3 young people all the love, attention and support they need to get through this difficult time and help them to grow into fine upstanding citizens of America. They will always have the fame and they will always be known as Michael's kids. To them and to him they are Michals's kids and always will be no matter what. Paris you need to be strong, stand up for what you want and believe in and not let anyone knock you down. I also feel strongly that they need to be getting the little guy Blanket some therapy as well. He is very young and living in the environment they are in is just not healthy. I believe the managers of Michael's estate should be parenting these children. They are overseeing his estate and part of that estate is not just the millions of dollars, but most importantly the 3 children that Michael absolutely adored and protected when he was alive.
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I think she understands all TOO well what her Dad and many celebrities have been through under the glare and SCRUTINY of the media circus. She's FIFTEEN!! Let her be a kid and stop shoving cameras in her face!! How many beautiful young daughters of Hollywood and music celebrities have to go through this until people leave them THE HELL ALONE???—And DON'T give me that CRAP about "the people's right to know" either!!
I think she is far too young to be followed by the media everywhere she goes. She is far too young to be on twitter.She is only a young girl who misses her father and is still devastated by his premature death. I hope she can have a lot of time in her mother's ranch and be close to nature. It will heal the pain she feels. The limelight is not a good place to be in for a vulnerable person who is sensitive and famous for being the only daughter of a world famous pop star. I don't know the true reason for her ending up in hospital but it is a sad time for her and her family and I hope that she makes a complete recovery and gets more support and care in the future.
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