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In the name of....ME

Feist (again), but better than on the commercial

I'm into music videos today, don't ask why. Feist is great.

Walk it out

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10 suggestions for keeping your sanity in church

1. Be suspicious of all authority figures, especially those who bullishly claim to be.
2. If you feel herded and corralled like a breeder cow, break rank and fence.
3. Trust your animal instincts. Especially if a leader tells you it’s wrong to think that way.
4. If someone insists she’s a sheep, sniff for a wolf.
5. If you are told it is for your own good, turn on your heels like a spooked coyote and run!
6. Don’t be the eternal optimist who, furiously digging through all the manure, exclaimed, “There just MUST be a horse in here somewhere!” There is no horse.
7. If you think you smell a rat, you smell a rat.
8. If a leader acts like a weasel, then he or she’s a weasel.
9. Peacocks and pulpits do not belong together.
10. If a leader uninvited roots around in your personal life like a pig for truffles, kick him in the snout.

Oilers officially unveil new jersey couple days ago.
I'm not that impressed....it could be a lot worse though.
Hello Vancouver!

THIS needs to STOP!!

A couple months ago the largest 'brothel' in Canada was shut down, and to my surprise, I drive by it every day on my way to work. This is not your typical seedy joint. This was a very nice, very large, --house, in a residential area of Richmond BC. The person who owned it and was running the enterprise was trafficking young girls from Asian countries AND North America to make her extremely wealthy.

You/I never would have suspected this nice large house was such a prison for so many young girls. I believe the newspaper coverage of the raid said the police found "copious amounts of lubricant and condoms, along with mattresses throughout the house." I despair. I ache for these young souls who are being abused, threatened, forced to obey their 'owners' for unimaginable acts. This has got to stop!!

Imagine if every report on faith communities was like this:

Where law enforcement stops short, churches, mosques, and synagogues across the U.S. have opened their doors as safe havens for victims of human trafficking.

This is hard to watch, but the first step toward action is awarenes.

The Gate of Heaven

"At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. It is so to speak His name written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our dependence, as our sonship. It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely . . . I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere."

Thomas Merton

Feist: 1234 on Letterman

Leslie Feist, joined onstage by members of Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Grizzly Bear, The National, and Mates of State on Letterman the other night.