7 Quick Takes Friday - personal introduction 






--- 1 ---

I have been following 7 Quick Takes for several years now and intended to participate for some time, but this is my first post! So exciting.



--- 2 ---

Today we preached the second sermon in our series in my homiletics class. The series is on Revelation. In this video, first is my series introduction, then my second sermon (I was not in class the day our first sermons were recorded). Some of you had requested the videos, so here is one! Remember we had a time limitation (15 minutes for the sermon); and also, I hear the camera adds about 60 pounds. I think my biggest self-critique would be that I smiled entirely too much - gotta work on looking more serious! ;) 







--- 3 ---

If you are going to be reading my blog, perhaps you would like to know a little more about me. This would be a great place to introduce myself! I am a seminarian and will be finishing my MDiv this year. Next? I am not entirely sure. Possibly, I will study History at Missouri State University, but eventually I will get a doctoral degree in Theology. I want to be a professor when I grow up. From Ohio, I have lived in Missouri for about 10 and a half years now. I love it here. I also love music (listening to Mumford & Sons and Alison Krauss as I type this post), nature, and quiet. I occasionally smoke a pipe - not so much because I am a smoker, but because I like the ambiance. It's all about the ambiance. Fantasy fiction and creative historical nonfiction are my favorite genres to read...along with anything else that catches my interest. I hope to write both fiction and nonfiction someday. 


--- 4 ---

I have ADORABLE pets! 







Cali








Albie



--- 5 ---

I have big plans to participate in the April 2013 A to Z Blogging Challenge, which involves blogging each day of April excluding Sundays (=26 days). In keeping with the rest of my blog, the theme will be theological; but that does not mean the posts will be stuffy or even somber! Hopefully, some of them will be fun and at least most of them will be creative. And you never know with me - some of the content just might be surprising. I have tweaked my list of subjects a little since I originally posted them. 


--- 6 ---

Coffee. One of my favorite things. Just saying. 


--- 7 ---

For your viewing pleasure, an excellent little bluegrass ditty: 





For more Quick Takes, visit Conversion Diary!

Comments

  1. Sherry EllisMarch 15, 2013 at 12:37 PM

    Cute pets!

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousMarch 15, 2013 at 4:43 PM

    For some reason, your post has gone completely across the page and into the sidebar making it very hard to read.

    Anyway, gorgeous little shih tzu!

    ReplyDelete
  3. MelodyMarch 15, 2013 at 8:07 PM

    For some reason my blog is not letting me reply to your comments individually (I will have to figure out why!).

    But thank you, Sherry - they are a lot of fun!!

    And Wendy, thank you for letting me know. On my screen it is formatted correctly, so I am not sure what the difference is. I will look into it. And thank you - I love him!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A: Alive!

Image
Although Easter was yesterday , all that talk about resurrection gets me thinking about what it means to be alive. Lots of people have lots of different opinions on this – hence all the debates on abortion, life support, euthanasia, etc. Perhaps one of the things “being alive” means is that you get to have an opinion. And you get to learn how to live side-by-side on this great big planet with other people’s opinions, too. Love, in my opinion, is one of the more important aspects of being alive. Sure, a person can for one reason or another cut off all his or her relationships and still breathe, and walk around, and “exist”…but that reminds me more of someone on a ventilator than someone who has a strong pulse and a reason to build his or her strength again to a point of thriving. Relationships…compassion…we thrive on love both as an experience and as an activity. Inventiveness…creativity…is another special aspect of being alive. I think each person brings his or her own nuance to
Read more

C: C. S. Lewis wrote this poem...

Image
"All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through; I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.   "Peace, reassurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek, I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin; I talk of love – a scholar’s parrot may talk Greek – But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin." I have begun to awaken to the wider world of which I am a part. I have begun to realize that the crux of all things meaningful is inherently connected to a solidarity with the rest of humanity. We are indeed all in this together. Is humanity broken? Yes, I believe it is. Is there a solution? Yes; in Christ, I believe there is. But the solution has little to do with good works and nothing to do with formal religion. As much as I grow in my rhetoric of love and social justice, the fact remains that I am still a self-obsessed person in a world of sel
Read more

B: Boxing Day

Image
Since Easter has passed, let’s talk about Christmas, shall we?! December 26 is a national holiday known as Boxing Day in Australia, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada. Many people do not really understand the historical meaning of this holiday (kind-of like Christmas and Easter!), believing it to have arisen from the need to empty the house of empty gift boxes the day after Christmas. Rather, from what I can tell, December 25 th was traditionally the date upon which people exchanged gifts with their equals – family and friends; while the 26 th was a day for alms – when people gave gifts to those subservient to them, such as employees, servants, and the poor. Honestly, I think Boxing Day has a more applicable meaning than our current translation of Christmas Day to the true spirit of Christmas. Christmas honors the historic moment when God became incarnate in human flesh, as the epitomic act of unearned favor, to live and die a human life in order to offer humanity true compassion
Read more