Short Things
It's Friday, so I'll make this quick.
Nichole Nordeman, Brave - Whether it's her genius morph of a Chopin's "Prelude in E minor" or the great pairing of her lyrical prowess with a clean-eared producer, she's got a winner with this album. The album is grounded, adult, inspiring--and has enough pop hooks to make you forget about teeny-boppers that go by the names "Avril" or "Kelly". Check out the title track, "Someday", "Real to Me", "Crimson", and "We Build"...or check out the whole album.
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I've been thinking that the best thing for developing Christians is not what we currently call "discipleship." I think this term needs to be redefined. "Discipleship", today, evokes tired businessmen meeting for lunch at the Olive Garden with workbooks that give them little rules for living...rules and rules, until a growing Christian is either so stifled by their failure or so full of themselves for their surface victories that it chokes out the very real progress someone can have by making mistakes.
Instead of this pale imitation, with rules, seminars, and "accountability partners" (read: nice people who will guilt trip you), I think it would be great if new Christians were actually just compelled to be patient, open...to wait, watch, and listen--to other Christians, to the Holy Spirit. Discipleship can come from many places, sometimes from the written word, sometimes from our spiritual "heroes", sometimes from silence.
And sometimes it comes like this. Anne's journey makes me think that it should happen like that more often.
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Gotta love the soccer moms at the gym. They're always 100% put together, with their fashionable flared sweatpants, baby-Ts with a flower or heart in the middle, and matching hooded sweatshirt. It looks like "Baptist hair" is back in full force, but modified...still lofty, but feathered like Farrah or Mrs. Partridge.
And they never sweat.
1 word: fabulous!
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Work went well this week. I'm designing a user interface for our intranet. Better get back to it. =)
