Hi everyone.
I blog over at www.agapesantos.wordpress.com
I'm thinking about creating a new blog, maybe right here, for bookstore and other ministry stuff and keeping the agapesantos for my musing and reflection journaling. What do you think?
Friday, May 2, 2008
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Clay in the Potter's hand
New blog on www.agapesantos.wordpress.com
http://agapesantos.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/clay-in-the-potters-hand/
I often sign my letters with "In the Potter's hand" or "from the Potter's wheel". Here's some insight into the reasons why.
I've been sanding shelves all day, and it feels so good to be "doing" something to move toward our vision for the bookstore. I like working with my hands. I may be too sore to type tomorrow!
http://agapesantos.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/clay-in-the-potters-hand/
I often sign my letters with "In the Potter's hand" or "from the Potter's wheel". Here's some insight into the reasons why.
I've been sanding shelves all day, and it feels so good to be "doing" something to move toward our vision for the bookstore. I like working with my hands. I may be too sore to type tomorrow!
Friday, May 18, 2007
Posting!
Anyone out there know how to help me with aggregating my favorite blogs so I can get them when i'm online but read them later? I don't have much online time these days!
thanks!
thanks!
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Tossing my life in the trash
Oooooh. I don't know if its a good thing, or a stupid decision I made the last time I was trying to "trim"....
I just found a box full of card that I tossed most of the card. Looks like I kept the fronts of cards thinking I might reuse them to make new cards. BUT, enough of them have just enough writing (and believe it or not, I still recognize a LOT of the handwriting) from people that now I'm really mad I didn't keep the whole card, with the DATE. Oooh. This is really painful. I even tossed baby birth congradulation cards...
The only reason it might be good- is NOW I just pretty much have to trash them. They really were good for "remembering". BUT, maybe that's part of the deal. Move on. Put your behind in your past. I don't know quite how to handle this. I guess I have no choice but to turn lose. Let go. Let the flames of the feeling of loss just burn until there's nothing left but the ashes of memory.
Ok. Back to sorting and tossing my life in the trash.
I just found a box full of card that I tossed most of the card. Looks like I kept the fronts of cards thinking I might reuse them to make new cards. BUT, enough of them have just enough writing (and believe it or not, I still recognize a LOT of the handwriting) from people that now I'm really mad I didn't keep the whole card, with the DATE. Oooh. This is really painful. I even tossed baby birth congradulation cards...
The only reason it might be good- is NOW I just pretty much have to trash them. They really were good for "remembering". BUT, maybe that's part of the deal. Move on. Put your behind in your past. I don't know quite how to handle this. I guess I have no choice but to turn lose. Let go. Let the flames of the feeling of loss just burn until there's nothing left but the ashes of memory.
Ok. Back to sorting and tossing my life in the trash.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Adventures in moving
Well, really, in packing and storing.... since we are only moving OUT not In, but we are taking more with us than you would for a vacation....
Some days you feel like you are superwoman- packing a dozen or two boxes, and (more importantly) filling up a large recycling box and several trash bags. Some days are more tedious. And the holidays are upon us! I guess the hardest choices are to stay focused on one task long enough, but not so long it becomes a time waster and a drag (sometimes it helps to back off and do soemthing else for a while and get a fresh start on a tough job). Hmm. Maybe I'm writing myself into a solution here- a good chunck of a day sorting, combining, and "taking stock" of our toiletries! That may sound pretty trivial... but we 1. have two bathrooms with some duplication 2. i've worked out of town for the past several years (more duplicates) 3. i've had a couple of misplaced "travel" selections in various suitcases/piles from various time periods (more duplicates requiring excavation). This is the good stuff, and i'm not planning on wasting! 4. Tom and I don't use all the same stuff, but he has some duplicates too 5. demo units from when i was actively selling the stuff, that now just need to be used and 6. new items unopened because I wasn't sure I had some stashed in 1-4 above!
I know no one cares about this, but its helping me to write. I now know I need to go do something else for a while!
Part of the problem is that packing is like a statistical process. Some stuff is easy to do (decision wise) even if it may be hard work, other stuff is hard to do. I think I've gotten the first round of "easy" just about done, and "hard" is no fun.
Now, where IS that recycle box.... maybe I can fill it up b4 bedtime!
Now, let's see, where IS that recycle box....
Some days you feel like you are superwoman- packing a dozen or two boxes, and (more importantly) filling up a large recycling box and several trash bags. Some days are more tedious. And the holidays are upon us! I guess the hardest choices are to stay focused on one task long enough, but not so long it becomes a time waster and a drag (sometimes it helps to back off and do soemthing else for a while and get a fresh start on a tough job). Hmm. Maybe I'm writing myself into a solution here- a good chunck of a day sorting, combining, and "taking stock" of our toiletries! That may sound pretty trivial... but we 1. have two bathrooms with some duplication 2. i've worked out of town for the past several years (more duplicates) 3. i've had a couple of misplaced "travel" selections in various suitcases/piles from various time periods (more duplicates requiring excavation). This is the good stuff, and i'm not planning on wasting! 4. Tom and I don't use all the same stuff, but he has some duplicates too 5. demo units from when i was actively selling the stuff, that now just need to be used and 6. new items unopened because I wasn't sure I had some stashed in 1-4 above!
I know no one cares about this, but its helping me to write. I now know I need to go do something else for a while!
Part of the problem is that packing is like a statistical process. Some stuff is easy to do (decision wise) even if it may be hard work, other stuff is hard to do. I think I've gotten the first round of "easy" just about done, and "hard" is no fun.
Now, where IS that recycle box.... maybe I can fill it up b4 bedtime!
Now, let's see, where IS that recycle box....
Saturday, December 16, 2006
beginner
OK. I'm a beginner.. and now I have 3 blogsites, i don't know why. This one was created so I could merely comment on someone else's blog. I don't know if I HAD to or not, but I don't think I'll ever figure out all this techno stuff- I used to be pretty savvy on the technology, but it's just run over me somehow.
So, if you want to read my real blog, go to www.agapesantos.wordpress.com
And, I always want to explain why I chose a name. I'm terrible at choosing "cool" and meaningful names. This one: we are moving to Mexico. My biggest memories of Mexico so far are more cactus than a person can count and as far as the eye can see. Also, the spines are sooo much fun. But the fruit of the prickly pear, its called "tuna", is so yummy, even if you do have to swallow lots of tiny seeds (or spend your afternoon trying to spit them out).
Now for the deeper application. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self control. All of these are the most evident when hanging out with prickly, spiny cactus like folks. So much wonderful goodness behind the thorns. But, gotta have the fruit of the spirit to get it/ let it out. And sometimes the person with the thorns is ME, and I'm the hardest person in the world to love when I'm spiny. Hard for me to love, and hard for me to accept God's love. That's why the thorns are there - to scare away anyone who might try to love me. I guess. AND gotta accept it before I can give it. That's it. If you can get past the spines, the fruit is so yummy.
So, if you want to read my real blog, go to www.agapesantos.wordpress.com
And, I always want to explain why I chose a name. I'm terrible at choosing "cool" and meaningful names. This one: we are moving to Mexico. My biggest memories of Mexico so far are more cactus than a person can count and as far as the eye can see. Also, the spines are sooo much fun. But the fruit of the prickly pear, its called "tuna", is so yummy, even if you do have to swallow lots of tiny seeds (or spend your afternoon trying to spit them out).
Now for the deeper application. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self control. All of these are the most evident when hanging out with prickly, spiny cactus like folks. So much wonderful goodness behind the thorns. But, gotta have the fruit of the spirit to get it/ let it out. And sometimes the person with the thorns is ME, and I'm the hardest person in the world to love when I'm spiny. Hard for me to love, and hard for me to accept God's love. That's why the thorns are there - to scare away anyone who might try to love me. I guess. AND gotta accept it before I can give it. That's it. If you can get past the spines, the fruit is so yummy.
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