Latest Updates from erinakim Out of his poverty “As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 3″I tell you the truth,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” (Luke 21) Every year, the majority of our small groups spend hundreds of dollars planning, cooking, and consuming elaborate Thanksgiving meals as an act of celebration. These meals are complete with an abundance of turkey, side dishes, and desserts, not unlike the meals students will eat a few days later at home. While these events are an act of love and generosity, this year, we decided to do something different. Our leaders [Read Full Post]
November 2008
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Note: I know I said I would lay off the subject for a while, but Olberman asks the same questions I’ve wanted answered for a while…. So here it is. Everyone deserves the same chance at permanence and happiness SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Anchor, ‘Countdown’ updated 6:13 p.m. PT, Mon., Nov. 10, 2008 Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from coast to coast. Some parameters, as preface. This isn’t about yelling, and this isn’t about politics, and this isn’t really just about Prop-8. And I don’t have a personal investment in this: I’m not gay, I had to strain to think of one member of even my very extended family who is, I have no personal stories of close friends or [Read Full Post]
The video that started it all for me Legal Thoughts on Prop 8: Analyzing History Present and Future This is what I mean when I say we’re close minded Taken from: http://tenacious-snail.livejournal.com/566853.html My family is real I was adopted by a married man and woman when I was three months old. When I was 4 or 5, the man moved out. When I was six, a woman moved in. That woman was, in function, my step-mom. A second parent. The person who drove me home from afterschool sports, who taught me to ride my bike, who taught me to waterski, who took me to Europe when I was a teenager, and showed me my first white Christmas. She taught me to parallel park. She taught me how to get along with my other mom, at times that my teenage self was otherwise being difficult. My mom and my stepmom could [Read Full Post]
Learn to fly (accoustic) – Foo Fighters
We Hold On – Rush We Hold OnRush (Snakes & Arrows) How many timesDo we tire of all the little battlesThreaten to call it quitsTempted to cut and runHow many timesDo we weather out the stormy eveningsLong to slam the front doorDrive away into the setting sun Keep going on till dawnHow many times must another line be drawnWe could be down and goneBut we hold on How many timesDo we chaff against the repetitionStraining against the faithMeasured out in coffee breaksHow many timesDo we swallow our ambitionLong to give up the same old wayFind another road to take Keep holding on so longCause theres a chance that we might not be so wrongWe could be down and goneBut we hold on How many timesDo we wonder if it’s even worth itTheres got to be some other wayWay to get me through the day Keep going on till dawnHow many [Read Full Post]
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I am glad that Barack Obama won the presidential election. I think that people in the US (myself included) fail to see how important this election is for the US and for the rest of the world. It’s not just a new US president that has been elected but it’s also the man that the rest of the world is looking at as the leader of the western world and who has to mend fences and build bridges with all the people Bush pissed off during his 8 years in office. It’ll be interesting to see how these messes are cleaned up, and if they are cleaned up at all. I like Barack Obama but don’t think that he’ll be able to undo the damage done in 2 terms in the short time that the hard core republicans are going to give him… forgetting all the time that it was [Read Full Post]
