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My Anthropocentric Version of the Hub of Ultimate Incoherence
The major thrust of this missive is to affirm a global ethic and to impress upon those who have a difficult time wrapping their epistemological arms around a nonauthoritative deontology that they might could learn much by "trying it on". I have to tell you, the paradox involved in my embracing the intrinsic over the extrinsic and by attempting to validate internally rather than externally still gives me the epistemological willies. The nowhere anchored paradoxical trust in uncertain reality does leave one open to ideas of total menace and decay. I thank our hypothetical God for having made me stare, not unflinchingly, into the abyss, for each time I look up, the sky is bluer and grass is greener and my compassion for self and others sends bolts of ecstatic lightning up my spine even as my mind is obnubilated by the ineffable numinosity of it all.
I have chosen to pursue the transcendent in a community structure and have found great hope and much consolation in creed, code and cult; in dogma, moral law and liturgy. I have been drawn to the truth, beauty and goodness which my community claims to have encountered at its mystical core. I drink from the deep well of one tradition and have drunk deeply there. I have listened, poorly, to some of the voices of other traditions. Still, their creeds, codes and cults have shed some light on my own experience of dogma, morals and liturgy. I have listened to these voices, occasionally in person; sometimes on internet listservs, usenet, IRC or website message boards; but perhaps most often in books. I ask myself if the mystical core of these other traditions is drawing water from the very same well as my own tradition. I don't think I would be asking this question had I not gone deeply enough into my own tradition because it seems that it is at the very rootedness of our traditions, the place where we drink together from some primal stream, that our lives somehow intertwine the most. It seems that once we leave the ground of our being and reach upward toward the light, which also nourishes us, that we less often converge and more often branch out. Even then, convergences do occur and common words are spoken in this light, for instance, the golden rule excursus.
All of these convergences and divergences make me wonder if my tradition is literally true or whether it is partly mythic. To the extent my tradition is not literally true, I still follow it because I have a difficult to articulate feeling that it's myths nonetheless prompt me to make an appropriate response to ultimate reality. I have trouble articulating why I even care that my response to reality is appropriate. I can't really tell you where this feeling comes from. I don't really know why I have this affinity for "the knowing" of reality's whys and wherefores. Perhaps some of the "good feeling" is nostalgia for my carefree childhood, a cultural affinity, a "being at home", an experience of belonging. Some of the affinity may come from the way my myth has addressed my deepest fears, has comforted me. Some may come from the manner in which my tradition has promised fulfillment of my most heartfelt aspirations.
I have filtered the truth of these feelings and the authenticity of this affinity through an epistemology which employs historicism, knows intentionaility, applies a sociology of knowledge, and is aware of the limits of language, the power of hermeneutics and the utility of dialogue.
I have asked myself why I ever bothered to listen to other voices. For that matter, in this process of self-examen, I have asked myself why I have ever bothered to affirm my own tradition. I have already discussed, a little, why I think I still cling to it. These questions , I think, shed some light on those human aspirations that it seems I share with almost all others to whom I have listened . Most of us seem to be deeply disturbed by our own suffering and death and we would also like to eliminate their effects from the lives of those whom we call our own in this world. For most of us, our present perception and understanding of reality suggest that our suffering can be mitigated but not eliminated and that death is unavoidable. Such limit experiences point us toward an horizon but what lies beyond? Our myths tend to address this question. If they offer satisfactory answers, then we would do well to listen, seems to me. Still, every myth, apologetic or theodicy remains immersed in mystery, a realm we penetrate but can never get our arms around. What I have found is that most of us are not without faith, if faith is concern about ultimates. Neither are we without hope, our gazes focused as they are on those who have spoken, through myriad religions and ideologies, of absolute fulfillment of our most urgent longings and deepest aspirations. Voices still speak, both of the cessation of suffering and of a life after death.
Where does dialogue come in? Well, I think that its primary purpose is to learn, to change and to grow in the perception and understanding of reality. The reason I, at least partially, defined myself above is that I want to come before you in complete sincerity and honesty, to avoid placing a false front on my position. How else can you help me change?
Where does the global ethic come in? I haven't figured that out yet. Why am I here? It is this particular forum's advocacy of dialogue that suggests you folks might meet my need for change. My need for change is pressing, especially as regards my interpretation of my limit experiences; I don't want to suffer and I don't want death to have the last word. I want to grow in perception and understanding of reality in order to know if my myth is appropriate. By appropriate, I mean that I want to know if its promises are empty or true. Is the universe friendly or unfriendly? These are issues I'd not leave to chance happenings and I can't seem to accept, with blind credulity, the answers given from such happenstance as the place of my birth. Did I just so happen to be born into the "right" myth, the "proper" culture? Why was I so "lucky"? Or, for that matter, why were others so "unfortunate"? Or, why were others so fortunate? So, in advancing my need for change, if per chance you differ from me, even greatly, all the better! This should construe to my fuller grasping of life's meaning. I need to be in dialogue with those who care about the same things as I but who differ greatly. For that matter, if you care about different things, then that's good, too. So, in my desire to dialogue I haven't turned my attention to the object of a global ethic, not just yet, but to the participants. Where else can one find this diversity coupled with this level of commitment to dialogic principles? I come into such a forum *par cum pari*, "equal to equal," to the extent that you share my ultimate concerns.
I'll tell you why I believe in the transformative power of dialogue. I recall my first overnight visits to the homes of friends and neighbors and the eye-openings I experienced on such occasions. They watched different shows on a television that had a color picture tube. They ate different food at a table that was near a window air conditioner and talked about different things. They went to bed and woke up at different times and didn't seem to pray, at least not aloud and, ostensibly, not together. It's not that those overnight trips taught me that much more about my friends per se but that I came home a tad more enlightened. My perspective had been broadened and deepened as my own home life was illuminated by the light of my experience from next door. This is a crude example, from early in life, of a dynamic that has repeatedly rewarded me thus far in life. It is a dynamic that has helped me to realize some of my mistakes and shortcomings and also to recognize some of my strengths. In other words, I have gained understanding and have been transformed in many ways. These transformations have lessened my sufferings. My failures in relationships have decreased and some of my addictions have loosened their strongholds. My personal freedom and peace have increased as a result of dialogic processes and my ego-centered consciousness has changed, even if it hasn't gone away. As I live out my days, knowing the answer to life after death will likely be delivered only in an eschatolgical setting (although I hang on to a slim hope that it might come sooner rather than later), I most often turn my focus to the elimination of my self-imposed mental suffering. I desire a quieting of my mind, islam, salom, shalom, an other-worldy peace. Now I have noted, and remain curious about, the fact that the most peaceful, enlightened-looking folks, quite often, also happen to be the very ones with the most confident assurance in things I hope for (eg. a beatific afterlife) and the deepest conviction about things unseen. There is an opportunity, perhaps, in being transformed by my contact with such folks, to kill two very big existential birds with one very large transcendental stone!
Still, I move into dialogue with caution. Why should I believe anything these seers or mystics might have to say? Aren't they numbed by Marx's opium of the people? Aren't they just projecting their own wants, fears, desires, delusions and angst-relieving wishful thinking? Are Freud, Russell, Feurbach and others not on to these shallow and transparent attempts to fabricate a meaning in life when there is none? And CS Lewis offers a moral proof of God, not much unlike Anselm's ontological proof or Aquinas' cosmological and teleological speculations, claiming he could only have thought the thoughts he had thought due to some extraneous factor. Well, even if one conceded a supernatural and extrinsic factor operating in our realm of reality, who is to say it is not supreme evil rather than absolute goodness. And this is a good departure point for what I have already considered regarding this global ethic idea.
Most ethics, deontological or teleological, appear to be relying on an extrinsic factor for an external validation, for authority. I concede the difficultly and the paradox that seems to result from a totally anthropocentric and humanistic ethic. However, it seems like a logical fallacy to rush to closure armed simply with the argument that a paradox must not stand, a mystery must not perdure. Perhaps I have a nowhere anchored trust in uncertain reality, a reality itself unsupported by primal support, lacking also primal origin, primal ground, primal being, primal destiny. So what if the anxiety that brought me here results from a skepticism ever-threatened by nihilistic nonsuppositions? If the possibility that everything is meaningless, worthless, null, void and that the universe is unfriendly seems unpalatable or inconceivable, then where, like CS Lewis, did I get the idea? There seems to be a misplaced concreteness between the subjective and objective realms here. I think that those who advocate any ethic must be ready to address a remnant of the population that, for whatever reason, relates to reality only immanently, only impersonally, only existentially, and radically apophatically. I say remnant but think they are legion who seek an intrinsic ethic and its internal validation. "Not so! Can't be!" say the deontologists who ask us to take their preambles and presuppositions as a given, setting their metaphysical houses on philosophically shifting sands. What your revelatory processes have assured you of have in no way moved some others. All good theodicies seem to retain mystery. Why can't paradox so perdure? Appeals on behalf of the modern (I won't say post-modern) moral life must be more creative than Pascal's wager. Not all people will be moved by preambles and presuppositions that rely, ultimately, on a priori proofs of a friendly universe. I don't depreciate what my future metaphysical trips next door might accomplish, but I've long ago done those "sleep-overs". I know that theocentrisms may find it positively arrogant when an anthropocentrism, in the process of affirming a global ethic, refuses to make any explicit references to a Deity, but to deny a humanism's discovery of the very ethic one claims is written on all hearts, simply because one thinks its proponents are arrogant, is the most amateurish sort of logical fallacy. Granted, once gifted with a confident assurance in a Divine Revelation, proclamation of such Good News is a natural expression of fidelity to such revealed truth, beauty and goodness. However, once engaged in dialogue, might one's own demand for charity be met by the affirmation of the nonbeliever's own fidelity to intrinsically "revealed" and internally validated truth, beauty and goodness? Any lack of explicit reference to the ultimate source of same would not render either party inauthentic or syncretistic; neither would it apply indifference. I recognize that, for those gifted with revelation, there is a given responsibility to remain true to one's conscience. Can we not humbly acknowledge that others, for manifold and varied reasons, have quite simply experienced uncertain reality much differently? Should the Divine reveal the same to others She has to some, even if using the same pre-existing structures and human modalities, can we not trust them when they tell us we'll be the first to hear about it?
I will continue this ego-centered thrust in working out my own transformative agenda. I am here to inquire and learn and have established that this is the best type of forum to accomplish my particular end. I am attracted here because of the value placed on dialogue. I am here because of the diversity of world views which can accelerate my self-transformation through this dialogic process. Finally, I am here because all of the problems I have encountered in buying into an authoritative deontology have been addressed by the global ethic project which precisely stands ready to address many of us on the only ground of being we have found to stand on, immanent, impersonal and existential as it is. This is where I unload, from this trojan horse of an essay, a major affirmation of the global ethic movement. The major efficacy of the approach of the pluralists is that it can make its appeal to an ego-centered consciousness using the transforming power of the aspirational and letting the obligational result "on its own."
All previous attempts to motivate me through an ontology of fear and a code of proscription have only aggravated my existing angst. Furthermore, those attempts would always strike at the very heart of the dignity and freedom their deontology was supposed to unleash within me. This affirming global ethic, has not at this stage eliminated my angst (for that shall be the by-product of its dialogic process), but it builds on my ontology of confidence and helps me aspire to the values it prescibes.
I think I can extrapolate my initial positive, visceral reaction to others. The global ethic will have an appeal because it does not ask one to abolish the ego. Recognizing and affirming others' self-love, they will surrender some selfishness spontaneously. Suggesting that a longing for fusion and a longing for beatitude can safely coexist along side self-regarding and self-forgetting desires, the global ethic's beckoning forth will be experienced as invitation to what people have already experienced, however dimly, and not as mere sterile abstraction. Affirming others' worthiness of being, they won't be afraid to love. With self-love as a model for loving others, people recognize the starting place. With loving self and others as not an either-or proposition, people will feel that they might truly belong. With egoism left intact, an invitation to altruism is not threatening. People will come to the dialogic process of the global ethic seeking knowledge and transformation in order to draw what is good to themselves. So far, the ego-centered appeal is in tact and we have met people where they are. It is possible that transformation will result. If people discover their authentic humanity is found in loving others while staying true to self, then the greatest act of authentic self love just might be found in following the global ethic, an an insidious codependency might be cured in the process. If in following the ethic they feel they won't be stripped of the very dignity with which the ethic presuppositionally clothed them, they might seek wholeness and holiness in loving others without a scarcity mentality. Present the ethic thus, as aspirational, then leave it for its followers to discover what may be obligational; if the obligational doesn't unfold of its own accord, your morals might accomplish their teleological goals but will fail miserably in their deontological transformation (not to be confused with indoctrination).
With such an appeal to the intrinsic, people may begin to suspect that they can find the ethic in the quiet, the solitude, the stillness, where love for others is inextricably linked to love for self, for if we do not encounter the ethic within we will not recognize it that we may validate its existence in others. This is an appeal to enlightened self-interest, a sales pitch, if you will, for values that will enrich both giver and receiver. It is not that religions don't have these truths within their doctrine, it is just that their marketing departments forgot some of the most attractive inventory on the shelf when designing the evangelical catalogs.
The global ethic can quickly capture others' attention by advocating their inalienable and untouchable dignity. That's an EF Hutton ploy that hasn't been lost on most religions and traditions; what has been lost, creating huge credibility gaps, is the human dignity rubber hitting the ecclesial road. The ethic affirms self-determination and self-realization, another good advertising approach. It disregards race, age, sex, sexual orientation, skin color, language, religion, ideology, political views, national and social origins when making the determination that others are infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected. Wow! It values inner freedom and nurtures, sustains and affirms what is authentically human. It will not devalue one who is or becomes poor, disabled, differently-abled, handicapped, aged, displaced, sick or lonely. It claims freedom as human essence and proclaims a virtually limitless capability of intellect, imagination and spirit, calling people imago Dei, made in God's image (whoever She is). It goes further and urges all on to infinity (Hello?)!
Now, how can we not appreciate all this attention, this imago Dei stuff, the notion of unconditional dignity? Shouldn't we be bowled over by the esteem with which the ethic holds our inner *and* outer freedoms? Between me and you, just like with some traditions, I find it all too good to be true. Furthermore, everybody seems to be saying this stuff; few people seem to be doing it consistently; and finally, I don't have a clue where they came up with all of it! Return to the presuppositions of the presuppositions and surrender to paradox cause this unconditional affirmation stuff is radical ! kewl even ... at the very least, it resonates with my intuitions and intrinsic self-value.
Maybe some of these global ethic people have experienced some type of personal macro-paradigm shift or are anticipating the next axial period. I say this, not because their affirmations haven't been codified or articulated in every culture in every language on every continent since before pre-history, but because there is something radically different in their collective consciousness. Perhaps it is the both/and pluralistic approach to the absolute/relative, transcendent/immanent, theological/existential, personal/
impersonal, kataphatic/apophatic and the radical optimism with which it beckons its religious partners in dialogue to embrace; It dares to suggest an intrinsic unity between the mediated and unmediated, between the Divine Communication and the Super*Natural* Existential, between the creeds/codes/cults of the pagan and the dogmas/laws/rituals of the theisitic. Again, this doesn't appear to be very different from many traditional orthodoxies but is less often encountered in the great traditions' orthopraxes. Still, the global ethic affirms the great religions which, surprisingly and largely, have not turned into stagnant ponds of dogmatism, ritualism and legalism, or into dry wells where truth, beauty and goodness no longer flow. Not that the traditions haven't remained all too human, even scandalous. Not that they haven't tried to eliminate one another through brute force. The great religions are all too human but what a felix culpa in excelsis for it arouses my curiosity even more as I wonder why, if they are human-made, have they not crumbled. They retain and nurture that part of the collective consciousness which the global ethic has tapped into and they, too, keep coming at us despite terrorism, war, hatred, genocide, ethnic cleansing, holocaust or or the persistent threat of cataclysm through nuclear bang or ecological whimper.
Has what I established thus far been limited to the recognition that there are folks out there ready to tell me what I want to hear? Why should anyone believe any of this stuff? Are we really talking about our unconditional dignity, about the cessation of suffering, about even life after death?
I don't know where the dialogue will lead and that is quite the point. As for the global ethic, we can't confuse it with a few western drafts that go by the same moniker. If I or we already had the answers, we wouldn't be here (in authentic dialogue anyway). What I do have is an intuition about efficacies of the dialogic process, an appreciation for the partners at-the-ready to dialogue, an affinity for the anthropocosmocentric method with which I *feel* an intrinsic unity, a hermeneutic willing to rely on the immanent-intrinsic-impersonal-existential raw data of human experience while looking over its shoulder at the paradoxical absence of external validations. The external validations are always hypothetical at best and affirmed through revelatory processes which are noncoercive. they, too lack conclusive cosmological, ontological, teleological and moral proof for their metaphysics. Their metaphysics provide a heuristic that appeals to our Lonerganesque needs for reasonableness and coherence as we search for meaning but why should uncertain reality meet this felt need when it is otherwise ostensibly hostile to others which are even more deeply felt? Mystery and paradox perdure whether you embrace a nonauthoritative or an authoritative deontology. The metaethical implications are confounding.
Not knowing what will come of this dialogue and how I will change, I hope I have at least partially explicated why I bother at all. Maybe, I have advanced an apologetic that the proponents of the global ethic movement find novel. Maybe I have just incorporated and rearticulated their apologetic. I might arouse some curiosity as regards whether or not there is an audience or a clientele for the ethic. Maybe I have revealed some human motivations that will figure into global ethic *marketing* ploys? Perhaps I have advocated the need to appeal to my ontology of fear and the greed that goes along with it while asking the ethicists to be patient and see if their altruistic contagion transforms me through *mere* dialogue. It's all I've got.
How, then, can I inquire and learn, help to unfold shared meaning, integrate multiple perspectives and uncover and examine my assumptions? How can I pay more attention to my thinking, my feelings, my communications, my assumptions and judgements? Perhaps meaning will unfold right here in this forum? Perhaps a true spirit of inquiry will often say: "Run that by me one more time!" Perhaps it is arrogant to suggest that I've ever really visited my neighboring traditions with an open mind and open heart, pausing to listen and reflect. Have I built relationships with others of different traditions, friendships that might be the natural by-product of an authentic listening process? Was I trying to influence or to be influenced or both? When I discard, out of hand, certain presuppositions or even *mere* modes of communication, have I only given lip service to dialogic principles?
Can I afford to be close-minded, in the least, when meaning in life is the grail being sought?
For obvious (and still very selfish reasons), I must better nurture a gentle openness, a willingness to question and be questioned. More than anything else, if I am going to be changed, I need to cross a wide liminal threshold and will have to be taken there by my interactions with others in an inter-validating process over against either an internal or external one. I can't escape the social nature of our sin or of our grace (and that, friends, is the first time I have introduced those words ... for the sake of having a gratuitous explicit religious reference ... the sex comes later ... please keep reading ... that's the only bait I've got). I have been handicapped by my own incestuous thought patterns and worldviews and I have a metaphysical crick in the neck that I suffer from the protracted navel-gazing done by my self and my tradition.
Can we take this in baby steps? I feel a real reluctance to surrender my freedom (gifted by you, thank you very much) to any externally validated ethic, not having a confident assurance in the reliability and credibility of the authoritative and extrinsic validating *agent* itself. Now look, don't any of you get your dander up; I've already applauded your major traditions for perduring against all odds; but the very fact that there are so many of them, saying the same thing often while claiming different origins, creates a mild credibility problem for even this simpleton-wannabe-theologian. So, if you don't mind, especially with this global ethic thingy, let's stay the intrinsic, internal validation course. Staying, too, on my ego-centered track, appeal to the eros and the "what's in it for me" elements and give it your best shot.
I don't want to transcend death through my genes or even through my ideas, but I can look through this lens of the ontology of confidence you gave me and see, dimly, a possible teleology of confidence. I can borrow some of your credulity and will trade with it as I engage the mystics of your traditions (maybe YOU), for in their (YOUR) authentic humanity, they often claim to know something of our destiny beyond the grave. I will give them a more thorough hearing, I am sure, once having better established the relaiability and credibility of their authentic disciples on such a mundane and earthly matter as an ethic.
Speak to my aspirations and perceived needs and teach me new ones. If my love grows from self to one other, I can accept how, in theory, it could extend, one person at a time, to all. Be wary of trying to influence my behavior with extraneous principles by cultivating a malleability of my mind and heart because, so cultivated, it becomes fertile ground also for the charlatans and the Hitlers.
I am here open to a pluralistic process and looking to drink from the primal life stream and you have told me that it flows within. Now I will accept the invitation to tap into the awakening and transformative power of the dialogical process. The monological process has sought to displace my ego from the center of my experience of human reality. It has kept me alienated from self and others. In the dialogic, I might find myself in you and may yield my ego-centered consciousness to one willing to come and stand with me at the center of my experience of reality; not over me, not below, but beside me. I might rediscover my humanity as profoundly interrelational, interconnected and interactive. I am willing to revise and experiment and self-transform, to listen, to encounter and enter creatively your perspective, to critically question and overcome what I once uncritically assumed and presumed.
Let's meet where we are. Maybe engage nonrationally, too? Let's tell stories and try to experience solidarity in them and through them. I have heard that compassion ensues from experiences of solidarity and I have experienced that, to an extent. If it doesn't, polemic won't do the trick either. While I see beauty and truth in your Myths, shouldn't you be the first to admit that they sometimes seem too good to be true!
Here's to truth, beauty and goodness! Here's to you and me! Maybe we're all the same!
My Christocentric Version of the Hub of Ultimate Incoherence
I think of Paul's affirmation of the monument to the Unknown God, of Rahner's "anonymous Christian" affirmed by Vatican II, of Jeremiah's affirmation of the notion that God's law is written on every heart, and it strikes me as strange that some Christian deontologists would take the position that a global ethic must be derived only by revelatory processes extrinsic to humanity and must be validated only by external authority when, in fact, it should be no surprise to them that their God left clues in the recesses of all psyches which existentially orient all people to the transcendental imperatives, hints which move all people to intrinsically respond to that ethic which has been extrinsically gifted only to some.
Theocentrism may find it positively arrogant when an anthropocentricism, in the process of affirming a global ethic, refuses to make any explicit reference to a Deity. However, to deny a humanism's discovery of this ethic, simply because one thinks its proponents are arrogant, is the most amateurish sort of logical fallacy. I think, rather, we should not be surprised at how a gracious God has chosen to make Herself known both immanently and transcendently, impersonally and personally, existentially and theologically, intrinsically and extrinsically, apophatically and kataphatically, never constrained in His Divine Encounters, never invading human reality as something utterly alien.
Once gifted with a confident assurance in a Divine Revelation, proclamation of such Good News is a natural expression of one's fidelity to such revealed Truth, but once engaged in dialogue with those not similarly gifted, for whatever reason, the demands of charity can be met by an affirmation of the nonbeliever's fidelity to intrinsically "revealed" and internally validated Truth. Any lack of mutuality in defining the ultimate source of that Truth, or any lack of explicit reference to same, does not render either party inauthentic or syncretistic; neither would it imply indifference.
In the middle of our tradition are people like Therese of Lisieux, on the margins, like Simone Weil, and maybe we could follow their lead and "suspend belief" at least as a heuristic and for the purposes of dialogue with nonbelievers in discovering the global ethic. Therese and Simone are living proof that the invitation to love can be extended, unencumbered by dogma, even if their "atheism" was, in the first instance, not methodological, and in both cases, not life-long.
Can a global ethic be affirmed, an authentic deontology be constructed, by non-believers?
As far as the nontheists, atheists, agnostics and secular humanists who might unconditionally affirm a global ethic, the gentle souls I have in mind would little resemble Rousseau, Marx, Sartre or Bertrand Russell but moreso a pre-conversion C. S. Lewis or a dark-night-tripping Carmelite mystic for whom God has gone on vacation.
As compelling as the ontological, teleological, cosmological and moral "proofs" of God's existence are, they are not conclusive in every metaphysics, or theodicy; mystery perdures, for me anyway.
We can not rule out another realm, hierarchically *over* our own, which introduces itself in manifold ways (eg. an ethic), but neither can we prove such. I absolutely agree with Haught and Polyani that it is possible to hold together the fact of physical continuity with the hierarchical conception of ontological discontinuity. Certainly, one could construct a matrix consisting of both epistemological monism and dualism and both metaphysical monism and dualism and then decry the inconsistencies of those who want to have their dualistic cake while eating their monistic ice cream, but still we can't demonstrate that there must be an hierarchical universe just by claiming it would not otherwise be meaningful, purposeful or, for that matter, friendly. Prior to receiving our convictions about things unseen (eg. beatific vision), we are faced with the possibility that everything is meaningless, worthless, null, void and that the universe is, in a word, unfriendly. Even if we could metaphysically *prove* a hierarchical reality ( though I can not fathom how we could get our epistemological arms around it), we would still be confronted with the mystery of whether or not its controlling influence was supreme evil or absolute goodness. Thankfully, the moral argument does fail as conclusive proof, for if it truly worked, it would work "both ways" and C. S. Lewis might have to ask himself: "But where did I get the idea that things should be other than they are? if not from an outside influence hell-bent on frustrating my aspirations? Why should the wholly other be holy? Why should it, of necesssity, have to introduce our aspirations and not rather our desperations?"
Sure, we needn't reject the possibility that nonaesthetic elements of existence can be transformed by a higher realm of existence but neither can we conclude that that higher realm hasn't "broken through" to introduce the chaos and decay we observe. We may have to simply and humbly accept, at least in part, what Freud, Feurbach and Russell had to say about the roles that illusions, projections, wishful thinking and fear might play in our ethical machinations, even as we methodologically reject the certitude with which they and others clung to their inconsistent metaphysics.
Prior to the certitude some are reportedly given through the gift of faith, all of us simply must hope and have got to believe that the "Higher Realm" has broken through and introduced the love we observe, if for no other reason than that the alternative is too unpalatable.
I positively have sneaking suspicions that there are those who have been gifted with a confident assurance in things they hope for and a conviction about things unseen and that in their seeking they have searched with all their hearts and have thus found Him for Whom they were searching. I am curious about the claim that there may be a Dark Night wherein God goes on vacation and I view it as either the highest metaphysics describing our transformation into an image of Unconditional Love or the most brilliant rationalization for the loss of faith ever devised. Even when suspecting it is a rationalization, there is, to contend with, the testimony (of those who have authored this apophatic apologetic) wherein they advance the claim that they came through this Night, after an indeterminate period of time, and then perdured in a unitive state. This arouses my curiosity, even more, as regards both the spiritual and psychological elements that might be involved.
No doubt our needs for security and love, rooted in pure animal instinct and sublimated by the powerful devising of the human mind, engender existential orientations which would cry out for transcendent provision of those needs and which are experienced as deeply-felt imperatives. These imperatives are, as far as a Global Ethic is concerned, a given. That they are transcendental as well as existential, to me, is not a given, even though some of us accept it as an article of faith helping to provide a hub of coherence to any ethic's presuppositions. If this transcendence is known by some, they would seem obliged to share this knowledge; there are those who claim to know it (sometimes me) and those who earnestly share it (sometimes me, too) and I deny no one their experiences or convictions about such matters (except for, you guessed it, sometimes me). Thus some, quite simply can not and perhaps should not abandon their proselytizing if it would violate their conscience; still, during dialogue, they should listen, in charity and with openness, to other perspectives and acknowledge the lack of force their arguments may have for those who have not been *graced* with the same experiences of faith.
For those who don't know transcendence through revelation, no doubt most seem to persist in their hermeneutic of love, consistent with their existential orientations and they, too, will support the Global Ethic and its imperatives, just because ... or if there need be a reason, perhaps they merely wager with Pascal. History shows that some others don't share that hermeneutic at all and, unfortunately, it seems there will always be some who don't.
It seems to me that human dignity and human love, must be radically unconditional if they are to endure at all. To claim external validation or support, such as some perennial philosophers did, does seem to attract more followers because it meets that need for reasonableness that Lonergan well-described, but it doesn't make the support real, neither of Hercules nor of Zeus, and it places the validation always in real jeopardy of being found null and void. Still, we can affirm the reasonableness and the apparent infusion of meaning that the hypothesis of a God-given Ethic offers and it can be a *working* hypothesis in the most superlative sense and there is no method of philosophy that can undercut this meaning even if we simply must admit that, for some, it has to remain just an appearance of meaning.
Perhaps the external validation for an ethic needn't derive from a transcendence of discontinuous ontologies and teleological hierarchies but might come from a *mere* transcendence of self (not to be depreciated just because the sociobiologists might describe our selflessness in terms of gene pool perpetuation, not to be devalued just because the physiological psychologists might discover the biochemical correlates of our altruism).
We might beckon others to join us, not because they share our philosophical presuppositions but only because they share the same concern about human ultimacies and therefore experience a solidarity leading them to join us in compassion for one another. Our solidarity, to me, is self-evident; that we are all in this together is clear. When we offer others opportunities to experience this solidarity and they awaken to it (for it is a fact and not something we create), generally, compassion ensues. If it doesn't, argumentation won't produce. However difficult it may be to articulate this compassion and whatever its genesis, it is global and, it is the ethic.
To seek external validation or support is a natural inclination and without them we fear we will be left awash in a sea of nihilism and an ocean of the worst sort of moral relativism but, not to worry, for some reason, most people seem to swim towards the Shore, albeit confusion reigns because the Shore can be found in all directions!
Thinking of Rahner's anthropological theology, I want to say that, just like with our experience of God, perhaps 1) both the natural and the revealed knowledge of the global ethic are mediated; 2) there is an intrinsic unity in these different ways of knowing the global ethic; 3) that unity is derived from our common experience of Absolute Mystery; 4) this might be the same experience that Rahner calls "original experience".
(Cf. Mark Fisher's paraphrase and notes on Rahner's _Foundations__ at url =
http://www.west.net/~fischer/Rahner200.htm )
Doesn't the very principle of God's being become constitutive of who we are?
Don't we believe that God created all human beings with the capacity to hear and respond to God? If the capacity is there and, even if we consider it grace, still, while others may be unaware of this unmerited grace, surely they would recognize this "natural" potential which has been added to nature? And they do. And we call it supernatural and they call it natural but both experience it as an orientation to mystery and to horizon and to concerns about human ultimacies and to an ethic.
Rahner claims that God does not choose to communicate to some, and not to others. Rather, God creates in us an emptiness, a hunger for God, in order to fill it. God is love because, instead of remaining alone with the divine self, God creates an emptiness God wants to fill. (These are Mark Fischer's paraphrases of Rahner's concepts from http://www.west.net/~fischer/Rahner000.htm).
Fischer discusses Rahner's theology as regards humanity's "Supernatural Existential" and God's "Divine Communication" and it is this "existential" which, to me, provides the substrate for the global ethic in believers and nonbelievers alike. It could provide the common root system through which we drink of our solidarity, taste of the ethic and find both sustenance and nurturance through our compassion.
Some have criticized the Global Ethic movement for being too anthropocentric and having, therefore, a deontology that lacks authority or external validation. However, even an atheistic or agnostic humanism using a nowhere anchored paradoxical trust in uncertain reality without reference to primal origin, primal ground, primal support or primal destiny to affirm a global ethic is asking me to love unconditionally, and radically so (apologies to Kung for my free-wheeling deployment of his verbiage). To me, this "no-Myth" prompts an appropriate response to Ultimate Reality while, at the same time, perfectly honoring the ineffability of the encounter with the Mystery of human existence.
Encounters with the Mysterium have always resulted in either profound utterances or obnubilated silence. In a sense, the humanist or agnostic has taken the silence route, along with the Buddha ... not to practice syncretism with the non-theisms ... I just see some parallels.
A purely humanistic appeal may be ignorant of the experiences and devoid of the expressions of kataphatic theocentrisms but it resonates in my existential bones and flows through my apophatic marrow. To me, the anthropocentric and theocentric deontologies have been, respectively, radically apophatic and radically kataphatic, but either
way, we're not inventing rain, we're just opening our umbrellas!
What of the origin and meaning of the Global Ethic? What of the origin and meaning of human life? We simply are. We're not formulating a Global Ethic, we are discovering it and its manner of self-revelation will give us epistemological fits and teleological spasms--- oh bother.


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Kids' fast food and vinyl:
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Rhode Island parents face a new dilemma. Just when a leading fast food company stops making kids-meal toys out of vinyl, food workers here are likely to be wearing vinyl gloves when they prepare those meals.
Rhode Island has made it illegal for food handlers to wear disposable gloves made of natural rubber latex, and vinyl is the most likely alternative. The Legislature passed the ban in response to concerns that some individuals are allergic to latex proteins, which can cause skin rashes, and in some cases, respiratory problems. Less than 1 percent of the population has this sensitivity.
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1/4 cup water chestnuts, diced
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1 teaspoon pepper
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The men's and women's swimming and diving teams competed in their first multiple team meet on Saturday at Loyola University. The women went 3-0 at the meet while the men went 2-1.
The women's team swept the three other competing schools Lafayette 194-106, Drexel 190-108 and Loyola 170-130. This sweep marks the first time in school history that the women's team started 4-0.
Freshman Kerrie Kolackovsky made history by breaking the school record in the 100 yard breaststroke while placing first. She also swam to a first place finish in the 200 yard breaststroke and the 500 yard freestyle.
Head coach Ron Farina said that freshman Jane Ehret "sealed the deal" with her first place victories in the 100 yard butterfly and the 200 yard individual medley. Ehret also earned first place in the 200 yard butterfly.
Farina also mentioned Andrea Shuba as a clutch swimmer with her victory in the 200 yard backstroke.
"The other teams had good girls, but the depth of the women's team prevailed," Farina said. "The confidence is as high as it has been in four or five years."
The men's team defeated two of the three teams competing at the meet by defeating Lafayette, and Drexel, 198-93 and 174-122 respectively. The Pirates fell to two-time defending MAAC champions Loyola by a score of 186-113.
Senior Kevin Webster earned personal bests and finished first in the 500 and 200 yard freestyles, which was good enough to earn the honor of Big East male swimmer of the week.
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Betty Boop
This past weekend it was my aunt's 40th birthday party and I had the honor to be her cake (cupcakes) baker 🙂 it was so much fun doing these and they came out so cute. Her theme was Betty Boop so I made red velvet cupcake with creamcheese frosting with red (white chocolate) lips as the toppers and also baby cherry topped cheesecakes. I've posted some pictures below. So blessed to have a great aunt like her she is always doing so much for the family and she deserved this party so much.
Christmas – Super Hero Jesus
Hello everyone! So looks like Christmas is almost here, so exciting! I was meditating on the word while listening to worship from IHOPKC and this song that really made me just break down and think. It was Matt Gilman in the prayer room with Worship with the Word
"Ten thousands times ten thousand Angels singing "You're the only One who is found Worthy ten thousand times ten thousand Angels sing this song…God you became a Man you took on flesh and your so beautiful…"
I can just picture all the millions of Angels in heaven rejoicing and saying "YES look for the only one found worthy has been born!" and then I can picture Mary there holding Jesus in her arms after birth and hear her soft whisper "Your so beautiful" like a mother says to her newborn child.
I sometimes can't grasp how much God loves us that he let his only son become Flesh (Man) to rescue this world. He came in the most humble form, a baby…I just love Christmas so much, not only does it remind us to be so grateful to our Father for giving us such a gift of salvation, but just a reminder to continue even throughout the rest of the year to remember the "one" who is found worthy and what price he paid to leave his throne in heaven to come to be our Super Hero.
I can't wait until he returns again as things around us on this earth continue to fall apart, it's just a reminder that he will be back again just like a Super Hero. What better super hero than Jesus with eyes of Fire and riding on a cloud like seriously what hero do you know can do that? No one because not one is REAL, but see Jesus is real. He's not a story book character he's a real man (Fully Man/Fully God). We must continue to press in and cry out for his return even during this Christmas season we continue to pray and wait.
He came as a LAMB the first time but he will be back as a LION.
I pray you all have a Blessed Christmas!
I did two birthday cupcake orders and one cookie order for Christmas thought to share the photos…hope you like 🙂
In Memory of those little Ones – National Blogging Day of Remembrance
My Great Reward
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(Have to practice my Spanish…hehe!) you don't use it, you lose it and to think it was my first language.
An elderly woman sat right next to me on the train today. The trains have been so crammed these days since Sandy the super storm strolled on through the metro area, but anyway let me not get side tracked here. Ok so she opens her devotional and begins to read Psalms 19 this stuck out at me this morning so I quickly made my way into work. I was eager to read it. There is something so rich and special with the Psalms! I love how David was so in love with God and how it shows so much in his writings. This is one thing I yearn for to have a heart like his and always want to go deeper and deeper to know God's heart. So I'm here reading it and I started to think wow this chapter right here is a guide it tells us what to do to keep or reward. Our reward is Jesus and I took it as a guide for us to use to keep our reward that God the father has promised us. In Verses 7-9 it begins to list:
Law of the LORD = perfect, converting the soul
Testimony of the LORD = sure, making wise the simple
Statues of the LORD = are right, rejoicing the heart
Commandments of the LORD = is pure, enlightening the eyes
Fear of the LORD = is clean, enduring forever
Judgments of the LORD = are true, and righteous altogether
This is like a TO DO LIST what we need to DO so we get to see our GREAT REWARD. We are to desire these things more than anything, it says in Verse 10 10 "More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb."
And then in Verse 11 there is our Father's mercy warning us telling us to keep it and this is what will happen.11" Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward."
This just made me really examine my heart more and I was like whoa God ok I need to lay myself down my wants and let God put what he wants in us all our desires that align up with his purpose, and then I feel a sudden whisper in my heart "Because it's not about me in this end plan. Everything is for You Jesus everything I say, do, or want has to be for YOU".
As much as I want to do things on my own I need to realize that I cant' do it all alone. I was not made that way. I want to grow more dependant on God and stop thinking that hey I can do this, I can get it all together all on my own. We need to realize that God made us to be in commune with Him and that's why we were created to depend on him and He loves this he's a father. What parent out there feels that sudden brick on their heart when you come to realize your little one is growing up so fast and suddenly thinks they don't need your help anymore to get dressed, eat,…etc. It's great to be independent but we need to remember that God is always there for us like a Father. He knows when and what you need even before you even think it so just let His will be done in your life because like he says in his word there will be a great reward.
Verse 14 is the prayer that really clarified that whisper.
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in YOUR sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer."
Now as a side subject here BAKING! I received my matches for The Cookie Swap 2012″ this week and I'm so AMPed to get to share some of my cookies with new people throughout the US 🙂 Woo for Cookies! Holidays always make me crave cookies.
Here are some pictures of cookies I've made in the past now I need to choose which ones to bake up. Any suggestions? New recipes? Feel free to share. I love trying new things.
I went to a baby shower this past weekend had so much FUN. It felt so good to be around women who really love God they are so down to earth I really do LOVE being around them! Since I have this love (addiction) for anything cupcakes I decided to make baby cupcakes made out of baby clothes. I found this on Pinterest a long time ago and have been waiting for the right moment to make them. It's really so simple. Here's the link to the blog I found the instructions on (http://littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com/2011/02/baby-onesie-cupcake-tutorial-and-sweet.html) I took a try at it and was successful woo!
Have a blessed day everyone, and joyous baking!
Foodie Pen Pal October Reveal
Hello, well it's been a long time since i've been able to write new post with the storm hitting us and having no power for days it was not possible. However, we are so blessed now we have power, food, water and heat I'm beyond grateful to God for. He always provides. But there are still people out there that are suffering many losses and I pray that God strengthens them and strengthens their relationships with him through all this mess.
Thismonth I participated in a Foodie Pen Pal through the Lean Green Bean. You are given a name of a person you buy goodies for. Then you mail it. Another person gets your name and they buy you goodies and mail it to you. There is a spending limit of $15.
-On the 5th of every month, you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions.
-You will have until the 15th of the month to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the last day of the month, you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal!
-The boxes are to be filled with fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats! The spending limit is $15. The box must also include something written. This can be anything from a note explaining what's in the box, to a fun recipe…use your imagination!
-You are responsible for figuring out the best way to ship your items depending on their size and how fragile they are. (Don't forget about flat rate boxes!)
-Foodie Penpals is open to blog readers as well as bloggers. If you're a reader and you get paired with a blogger, you are to write a short guest post for your penpal to post on their blog about what you received. If two readers are paired together, neither needs to worry about writing a post for that month.
-Foodie Penplas is open to US & Canadian residents. Please note, Canadian Residents will be paired with other Canadians only. We've determined things might get too slow and backed up if we're trying to send foods through customs across the border from US to Canada and vice versa.
I joined a Foodie Pen Pal club and was matched up with Traci (www.cookingwithtraci.com) you can take a peek at what I sent her on her blog. So overjoyed that she loved her goodies.
I was matched with Natasha (www.homemadebytz.com) she sent me so many goodies that I felt like a child on Christmas morning when I got her box in the mail!
Love the Verse she wrote for me in her lovely card!
James 1:3-4 "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
There was dark chocolate coconut covered almonds (killed this bag!) Dark chocolate bar from Trader Joes, Banana bread mix (not her recipe) box from Trader Joes, i've had yet to bake it. Pumpkin spice from Trader Joes, Biscoff cookies! (I LOVE THEM) lemon spice, lemon extract (I used this extract for my homemade strawberry jam top cookies the were delicious), a lovely jar of cookie butter which was new to me and last but certainly not the least it was my favorite part of the whole box Homemade Banana Bread!
It was perfectly moist and popped with banana flavor.
So if your interested in joining please refer to the beginning of this blog post 🙂 I really do recommend this experience. You not only meet someone new you connect with people who love food and are very giving individuals. You also get to try new things which can open up your world to new recipes. I love how God always shows himself even in these little clubs we participate in. The bible verse really brought me encouragement in this Foodie Pen Pal box this month.
I was sitting on the train on my way to work this morning and I usually doze off and take my mini nap. Waking up everyday at 4:30 AM is not easy and with the soothing sound of the train I tend to lean my head to the side and just close my eyes to take a little breather from the morning chaos, but this morning for some reason I stood up didn't feel sleepy at all. I've been feeling kind of down. Well it's because I recently put a little notice out on the social media about if anyone is looking to place any orders for baked goods (cupcakes, cookies, etc…) and I haven't gotten any feedback at all yet and I vented to my husband that maybe I'm just not cut out to do this or maybe no one really likes my baking. Thank you God that he is being so supportive..poor guy even tries to soothe my woes and just tells me to be patient give it time it'll come around….Love Him for being so understanding with me at times like these.
Any way, as I was sitting in that stuffy train car I was looking around me looking at each person coming in and out of the train at each stop and I noticed one thing that 90% of what everyone was doing and it was RUSHING. Everyone has this look of rush (stress, worry…) pacing looking at their watches and phones to check the time. No sense of peace at all in the atmosphere it was just not a joyous feeling coming from anyone.
Then the word RUSH just stuck in my mind….RUSH?…..why do we all rush so much? I asked in my heart God why do we rush for everything is it even right to be this way? "What does God say about Rush?" I actually stuck this question in GOOGLE search engine and a ton of info came up. I know as a believer that rushing isn't of God I know because I was raised with it but I feel like I'm not living it though like NOT walking it out because I do rush for many things. Rushing leads to being easily disappointed, discouraged, selfish, confused, frustrated, worried, and untrusting of God which sums up all to be SINS…this blew my mind. So by being a rush-a-holic it easily lets the enemy take this and run with it and cause complete chaos in your mind. There was so many people in the bible that rushed and it never ever ended completely well…. (ex: Sara and the whole rushing Abraham to have a baby deal…Genesis 16:2, 21 1-14, 15:4-21:21)
While I was thinking of writing this post I realize yeah I want to have my little baking side business up and popping already cause it's one of my heart desires, but I can not rush it. It has to be up to God's timing. See I don't want to do this whole baking deal for just financial gain, yes money helps but money comes and goes and what I want is to use this gift God gave me for his purpose not for my own selfish need or want. I don't want to do anything that doesn't align up with what he wants and I just know in my heart that with time and his favor it will come to bloom. Just be patient and trust God because there is always a bigger picture that our minds just can't grasp.
So seriously lets all just take a moment to stop and ask God to just put his heart desires in our hearts instead and it's guaranteed all else will fall into place and all worries, frustrations, etc…will melt away like sugar in the rain. We will eventually get to work, school, home without having to rush.
Have a Blessed Day!
I'm leaning on, leaning on…
Good day! Such a beautiful chilly yet sunny morning here in NJ. Thank you God for the warm sun. 🙂 Last night I came home after work and my wonderful Husband surprised me with a bouquet of BEAUTIFUL flowers and my favorite chococlates (which reminds me, wonder if I should have a piece now….lol). We are still newly weds but we've known each other since we were Tweens…he never ceases to amaze me how much he does for my family and I. I love him and God couldn't have chosen any one any better to spend the rest of my life with.
So this morning all I hear is about the presidential debates and it makes me just cringe…I feel blah about it. No matter who wins this year's election nothing will be changed or become better until Jesus returns back to Earth. I do believe this strongly and I stumbled upon a song that really hit me regarding what is taking place today. I think of who will sit at that white house for the next 4 years and just sometimes feel uncertaintity but I stumbled upon this song and it really gave me prespective.The song is called "Without You" by Jordan Marcotte:
I was like a house built upon the shifting sand,
unstable you could call me a wavering man,
with no hope and no home I felt all alone,
constantly living in fear of the raging storm-
Without You my life would be shaken,
without You my life would be taken,
Anchor of my soul, Anchor of my soul,
I will not be moved-
Your ear was inclined when You heard my cry,
Your hand was extended to a swallowed up guy,
my pride was my life and my only sure thing,
but sure things don't last long when the strength is Your own-
Chief Cornerstone You're strong enough You stand alone, I will not reject You like the builders did in the times of old, I'm leaning on-
When everything around you is shaking and everything around you is moved, what do you do?
You stand, you believe, you trust and you lean, on the rock that is higher-
You are my hope-
He's a worship leader from IHOP Kansas City (www.ihop-kc.org) I found his album from last year on the bandcamp website (www.jeymarc.bandcamp) and just love the lyrics every song just makes you just want to fall on your face!
But the last part of the song just helps me keep strong and keep praying for the return of our Bridegroom Jesus. We have to just keep our hope and faith on what God is orchestrating even when things are getting bad keep pressing in because remember he wrote this story and he knows the beginning and the end. God always wins!
Now in my Foodie loving world i'm on the hunt for cookie recipes for my husband, he loves any jelly filled or type of cookies so I want to get some recipes to try out and see if he likes any. If I find a good one or two I may even try them for my cookie swap i'm looking forward to next month :). If your interested in a national type of cookie swap take a look at this site: (http://veronicascornucopia.com/2012/10/15/are-you-ready-for-a-cookie-swap/) she's conducting a project on this.
Hope your day is full of His Love and Joy!
I love this BLOG she has great recipes and I'm excited to participate on her Cookie Swap Project this year…Check out he page!
Last year after I found out about the fabulous Great Blogger Cookie Swap, I organized one for all those that didn't have blogs but still wanted to participate in a nation-wide cookie swap. Well we're back in business, kids! If you're a blogger, you can head on over to Love and Olive Oil or The Little Kitchen to get all the details and sign up, but if you're a non-blogger that would like to participate in a cookie swap, you've come to the right place.
This swap will work like last year's for the most part, and here's the breakdown: Sign up. Get matched to three other participants. Ship a dozen delicious cookies to each. Receive a dozen scrum-diddly-upmtious cookies from each of your matches in return. That's a whole lotta deliciousness and love being spread throughout the US!
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Alone Time
These days have become hard to have alone time. With the full time (8 – 5) job, being a mom and wife 24/7 by the time Thursday rolls around I'm beyond exhausted but I've found that no matter how busy you are there is something that you need to do to even get through day after day. It's your alone time with God. I've lately been having these little meetings in the shower. I know you might be thinking WHAT the shower? It's the only time I'm completely alone and I can pour out my heart. Think about it, you're in the shower in your most vulnerable state and that's how God wants you to come to him with your ALL which is stripped down to the heart. I was praying and worshiping and out came a song and I just love how the words flowed…I wanted to share it. It might sound cheesy but maybe it'll bless someone, someday.
Here's my heart O 'Lord
Take it as a living sacrifice because all I want is You and all I need is You
I want to pour my love at your feet
I want to see your Beauty Jesus
Take this as my living sacrifice O 'Lord
How long Lord, How long
How long until I see your Face
The Spirit and the Bride say come; the Spirit and the Bride say come
I won't stop crying out for you until I see you face to face my King.
The Spirit and the Bridge say Come, the Spirit and the Bridge say come
How long Lord, How long
How long until I see your Face
My heart yearns
My heart burns for my Beloved.
My hubby plays piano so I'm hoping we can add some melody to these lyrics and create a little song. One thing we love in my house is worship. We are always singing or humming it's funny but it's our DNA that God put in us all. We each have a heart song.
Most spectacular foodie thing that happen this weekend was I baked "Nutella Lava Brownies" on Saturday and whipped up some "Homemade Pumpkin Spice Lattes" on Sunday.
I was craving pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks but man can it be expensive to buy a small cup of Joe now in days. I decided to search the recipe and found many but I pinpointed down to one which I loved that it used pumpkin puree in it instead of that pumpkin flavored syrup. Well it was a huge success I loved the way it came out and I think it will be my new coffee for the season. Oh and the brownies OMGEE my family loved them!
Well have a great and blessed day everyone!


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Some items reported stolen from a Robinwood Little League storage container have been found, according to a news release from the Huntington Beach Police Department.
A Southern California Edison employee notified the department on Tuesday that he found an all-terrain vehicle, one of the items missing from the storage container, hidden on Edison property at Graham Street and Edinger Avenue — across the street from the Robinwood baseball fields.
The property was reported missing on Sept. 14 from the container west of Marina High School.
After the call from the Edison employee, Huntington Beach police found that locks securing the Edison grounds had been removed and the ATV was hidden in the bushes on the property. During an investigation, representatives from the Robinwood Little League found other possibly stolen items hidden in the bushes near the Edison property.


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It went pretty well. Played games and read until about 11... ate breakfast... showered... then around 1:30 started helping with the table and such.
We had a decent feast.
30-lb turkey
Sausage stuffing inside the bird
Green bean casserole (eewww)
Onion casserole (double ew ew)
Dialyzed mashed potatos
Broccoli, corn, peas
Baked virginia ham
Plain brown gravy and brown gravy with mushrooms
Cranberry sauce
Dinner rolls
Spinach dip and gently toasted breads or raw veggies was the appetizer but I didn't partake.
I was extremely full and I only had one plate. :-(
Sis's boyfriend was over. He ripped on her pretty good >:) It was decent, there was laughing. Hasn't been a Thanksgiving dinner as cordial and full of familial comraderie since... 2000?
Didn't go out Black Friday to shop; in fact only went out to pick up Dad from dialysis and on the way home picked up some prescriptions.
Brother lost his job on Wednesday. Today he's down in Maryland helping his buddy move (from here to there.) Dunno where my sister is.
Mom's taking the opportunity to take advantage of my brother's absence to clean his room. I haven't stopped sneezing in over an hour :-(


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- Tuesday, October 23, 2018
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Sarah Phillips, Curatorial Registrar/Collections Manager, Idaho Historical Society
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Deaccessioning, permanently removing objects from an institutional collection, is critical to healthy museum operations. And there are strict moral and ethical guidelines all accredited museums must follow. But what happens when things go awry? Opportunities abound to learn from session proposers on their experiences with deaccessioning: the good, the bad, and sometimes the ugly. #diggingdeeper


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Young Guns Sweep to Beanbag Title
The Young Guns are the 2014 champions of Beanbag Baseball, sweeping The Beanie Boppers in the Gold Medal matchup in the Riverdome of Horseshoe Casino Tuesday during opening ceremonies and health fair for the 22nd NW La. District Senior Olympics. (Click photo to enlarge)
It was stirring. It was dramatic. It was emotional. It was the way the Young Guns won the 2014 Beanbag Baseball title in the Northwest Louisiana District Senior Olympics Tuesday (April 25).
Banished to the comeback bracket by a second-round loss in the double elimination tournament, the Young Guns had to grind their way through six win-or-go-home contests to qualify for the Gold Medal match and then win twice in a showdown with the Beanie Boppers. Let the record show the team built around a family did just that, topping the seemingly all-powerful Beanie Boppers by 31-25 and then by 28-14 in the match for all the marbles.
The emotion came from the family ties between the Young Guns and the woman who helped them get started. "Five years ago, I came to see my mother (Lessie Copperrider) play Beanbag Baseball in the Olympics with the Silver Sluggers team," said Margie Bamburg, a key player in Tuesday's sweep by the Young Guns. "It looked like so much fun. That caused some of us to form our own team," she said, holding back tears. The Young Guns developed into title contenders over the last few years, but they never could get Lessie to forsake her Silver Sluggers team and join the rest of the family with the Young Guns. "We even offered her money," one Gunner said in jest.
In February, Lessie Copperider, battling illness, rallied enough to play in a tournament with her beloved Silver Sluggers. She died in early March.
Bamburg said that as the Senior Olympics season drew near and her mother's health faded, she told her she didn't think she could bring herself to play against her and the Silver Sluggers if the schedule fell that way. "She told me, 'if you don't go into the game to win, then you might as well stay home'."
The ironic thing about Saturday's victory is that the Silver Sluggers won last year's Gold Medal by winning twice in the championship matchup—over the Beanie Boppers.
Tuesday in the first game, Margie Bamburg chimbed in with a fourth-inning home run that helped put the Young Guns ahead to stay, 17-16, in the target game that mimics outcomes found in real baseball. In the second game, her husband Dennis had a three-run homer that helped the Young Guns go out to a second-inning 12-6 lead they never relinquished.
"Our Beanbag Angel took care of business today," commented one Young Gun team member.
In the final game, the Beanie Boppers suffered through scoreless second and third innings as the winners drew out to a 20-8 lead. Another scoreless final inning sealed the Beanie Boppers' doom. The losses came despite a significant effort by Lois Reynolds who played through two games and never failed to reach base in nine at bats.
The Go Getters (bronze) joining the Young Guns (gold) and Beanie Boppers (silver) in the medal race.


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An innovative Welsh business is proving that science is fun, not scary, with a series of weird and wonderful experiments as British Science Week gets underway.
Caerphilly-based Letterbox Lab is setting out to challenge the way children view their environment and encourage them to carry out their own mini investigations with their clever all-in-one science boxes. And this year's British Science Week theme of 'Change' is particularly fitting, as Letterbox Lab was founded last year by married couple Mia and Bryan Hatton after they decided to transform their own lives!
Mia and Bryan, who met six years ago when working at Cardiff science centre Techniquest, came up with the idea for the non-commitment subscription kits after a nine-month working honeymoon, which included teaching in museums in Norway and a jungle school in Malaysia. "Along the way we met many more people who loved...


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Yesterday, the hubby and I spent the day with the college girl. It was so nice to see her. She looks so good and so happy. I do believe the college life suits her perefectly. We took her to eat at Cali Burittos(awesome) and she loves that place. We then spent the afternoon with my sister and her family. She loves her Aunt Candy and Uncle Clinton and the girls(Theresa, Hanna, & Maisie) We love them too. It was a great day even though it really rained all day. We didn't mind, Nikki's smile lit up the whole day.
She loves all her classess and professors. Her favorite class is Pschy 1 and Art Therapy.
She has accomplished so much since she has been there. She is 2012 class Secretary, she was nomited to attend a Leadership Retreat in the Poconos, and auditioned for the Modern Group which she made!
She is growing up so fast and doing it with such grace and style! I love to see how she grows! Of course, I am the mom so I am really partial to her(lol).
Well, enough rambling on, time to go do some wash and knitting!
Till next time,
Happy Knitting and Happy Fall


text: I came home from work tonight a very happy hunter. I received an unexpected incentive check. Enough to pay off a couple of bills, plus buy a new barrel. A couple of months ago, I picked up a Savage 110 in .338 Winchester Magnum, with the intention of making a donor of the action. I'm thinking of going with a 300 Ultra Mag Improved, with a 32" Lilja barrel. But I am open to suggestions. I picked the caliber, due to bullet choices, and I felt it was about the best LR caliber I can build on this action. Any thoughts, good or bad? I've had good luck with Lilja barrels, and keep reading more good things about them every day. From what I've read, 32" is about as long as I can go with out having to go to a barrel block, and I don't want to go there with this action. My goal is to build a Long range coyote rifle. The range will be limited to the distance I can reach out to and still shoot 4"-5" groups. Any thoughts or suggestions?


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The FanCons.com and AnimeCons.com staff check this list to see what features people are asking for and how popular each of those requests is. Throw your votes behind some ideas or post new ideas of your own!
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We are planning to add a section for verified convention organizers to manage details of their own convention. Once this has been added, we can also have a place for receiving feedback. …but this will have to wait for that to be done first. (Best case scenario is that it's added at the same time, but it won't be done before that.)
Provide us with link images
Make a page with images of various sizes that we can add to our convention web sites or blogs to link to AnimeCons.com.2 votes
This is currently planned to be added in the next few months.
A section for Talent agents
I think there should a place for Agents and their website to be found so that Conventions looking for a place to find actors, where actors don't want their information public.1 vote
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Great American Cleanup October 21, 2017
Great American Cleanup and Adopt-A-Mile
Litter is an unattractive problem on our roadways. It's unsightly, expensive to remove and poses a threat to our motorists and wildlife. In 2004, the state of Georgia spent a staggering $14 million in roadside litter removal. Needless to say, the problem still persists in Georgia, and in Cobb County.
Be a part of the largest litter and beautification effort ever-the Great American Cleanup! As an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Keep Smyrna Beautiful volunteers have the opportunity to work locally joining two million other volunteers across the United States in the nation's largest quarterly community improvement program. Individuals and groups are welcome!
The next Great American Cleanup will be October 21, 2017 starting at 8:30 am. Volunteers will meet at the new Smyrna Recycling Center, located at 3475 Lake Dr SE, Smyrna, GA 30082. Phone is (770) 431-2869.
Their mile (actually 1.2 miles) is located on the east side of Atlanta Road from Creatwood Trail to the Community Center.
Volunteers work the mile in 3 sections:
- Community Center to Spring Road
- Spring Road to Brawner Park
- Brawner Park to Creatwood Trail
All needed supplies are provided free of charge by Keep Smyrna Beautiful and lunch is served after the event. E-Mail firstname.lastname@example.com to signup. Program volunteers serve as visible reminders to those who drive our roadways that we are all stewards of the land.
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New Mutants' Josh Boone set to adapt Stephen King's The Talisman
There's been at least one Stephen King adaptation, either on television or as a feature-film, almost every year for decades, but this past year is full of high-profile King projects, including THE DARK TOWER, IT, 1922, and GERALD'S GAME. Largely based on the astounding success of IT, there's been rush to put Stephen King-related projects into development, and, according to Variety, the latest will be an adaptation of "The Talisman," which King co-wrote with Peter Straub.
Josh Boone, who recently completed principal photography on the X-MEN spin-off NEW MUTANTS, has been tapped by Amblin Entertainment to pen the script for THE TALISMAN. The movie will follow a boy, who, in order to save his mother from certain death, enters a parallel world known as the Territories in search of a powerful talisman. Although Josh Boone's deal is currently just to write the script, there's also the possibility that he may direct the project as well, which Amblin had once envisioned at a TV series but later decided to turn into a feature-film. As I haven't read the novel myself, I can't speak to how it will work as a film, so I'll leave that up to you fine folks.
A synopsis of "The Talisman" via Amazon:
Why had twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer's mother frantically moved the two of them from Rodeo Drive to a New York City apartment to the Alhambra, a fading ocean resort and shuttered amusement park in New Hampshire? Who or what is she running from? She is dying . . . and even young Jack knows she can't outrun death. But only he can save her—for he has been chosen to search for a prize across an epic landscape of dangers and lies, a realm of innocents and monsters, where everything Jack loves is on the line.
The next Stephen King project to hit our screens will be 1922, which stars Thomas Jane as a rancher who conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate. 1922 will debut on Netflix on October 22nd.