Well, on Thursday I had the pleasure of meeting two crafters. One gentleman makes wooden flutes and he played it for me--amazing! While I’m not sure why we started talking about this, he said that he believes a picture steals part of your soul. Isn’t that a really cool thought?
These are some of the most beautiful crosses I've ever seen. They are expensive ($70.50) since they are made out of a different type of bead.
For a more reasonable price ($3.50) we sell United Methodist pins:
Meri, my supervisor, has a ton of cats at her house.
Looking up from under a chair:
While I've been in Oklahoma, I've grown accustomed to seeing casinos. The United Methodist Social Principles describes gambling as "a menace to society, deadly to the best interests of moral, social, economic, and spiritual life, and destructive of good government." As I was talking to my Dad about this today, he mentioned Gandhi's Seven Sins:
wealth without work,
pleasure without conscience,
knowledge without character,
commerce without morality,
science without humanity,
worship without sacrifice,
and politics without principle.
However, it is a Catch-22. While people are gambling away their paycheck, casinos are providing jobs that people would not otherwise have.
The more time I'm here at Cookson, the more I've been thinking about what God is calling me to do. When I went to Chrysalis a couple years ago, I received this in a letter from my Dad. It's now one of my favorite prayers and it's by Thomas Merton:
MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
While at times I do not know where we I am headed in life, I find this prayer helpful and comforting.
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Meredith
