Praying with blocks

I was organising staff prayers this afternoon. I’d been reading The Artist’s Way that morning. In the part I was reading, Julia Cameron was talking about how we’re born creative (created in the image of the Creator, as co-creators), but often as we’re growing up we’re taught not to be. Cameron encourages her readers to [...]

SURRENDER:10 launch with Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr is speaking at the launch for the 2010 Surrender conference at 7pm on July 24, at Mitcham Baptist Church. (Urban Seed is part of the council that is now running Surrender.) UNOH will also be launching their new edition of Athol Gill’s Life on the Road.
(Unfortunately I won’t be able to be at [...]

Walkabout Spirit

I’m using the Library at Whitley today, doing some research for Sacred Space at State Youth Games. The theme for SYG this year is ‘Spirit’.
Here is something interesting from Wiradjuri elder Cecil Grant, which I read in a little book called Indigenous Australia – A Dialogue About the Word Becoming Flesh in Aboriginal Churches:
About three months [...]

More little planets

Did  some more drawings of little planets (like in The Little Prince), on the train back from Bendigo on Thursday:

The Little Prince

Just gotten back from a few days camping in Gembrook. It was really nice having a few days away with friends and not really doing much at all.
Started reading The Little Prince. Mehrin got it for me for Christmas, because this drawing I did in 2007 reminded her of it:

Slavery

Started reading the Book of Revelation, alongside Unveiling Empire, in preparation for a workshop I’ll be running for NCYC in January.
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants [or slaves] what must soon take place; he made it known by sending his angel to his servant [or slave] John, who [...]

Ball’s Popular Guide to the Heavens

On Monday afternoon I went into this little secondhand bookshop near Mehrin’s work, and got a fairly old astronomy book for $12.50. It’s called Ball’s Popular Guide to the Heavens, and it was first published in 1892 – but I’ve got the 1952 edition:

I got it because it has really nice old star maps in [...]

Contemplation in Gembrook

On Thursday we went out to the Gembrook Retreat Centre with some of the Footscray mob. (We take people who come to lunch out there so they can get out of the city, and do a bit of work on the land.) We got there at about lunch time, and after we had lunch I [...]

‘Happiness is in your choices’

I’ve been reading Colossians Remixed, a book that attempts to interpret Paul’s letter to the church of Colossae in it’s original context, and in the context of postmodernity and the global economy.
Early on in the book the authors write about how postmodernity and globalisation work together despite seeming incompatible, because both see people primarily as [...]

Dr Pompo/TV cake

Very late last night, when everyone was home, we had drinks on the roof, and Ray brought out a birthday cake she’d made for me. It was shaped like Dr Pompo, on TV:

You can also see the other Dr Pompos that Ray made, one from a real pumpkin (it’s all shrivelled up now) and the [...]