Clem Gerdelmann's Blog – 1st mo. 2014 Archive (4)

The Case of Intentional vs. In-Tensional

Intentional: As the Court of Quaker Opinion is well-versed in the contemporary importance of intentional living, we look to a new age of spirituality.

In-Tensional: The danger of your mantra is shown by the many New Agers using intentional spirituality to further their worldly aims and success.

Intentional: There has always been a belief that the good will prosper in this life. Ours is the way of having that belief become reality.

In-Tensional: Beliefs need to be rooted…

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Added by Clem Gerdelmann on 1st mo. 27, 2014 at 7:00am — No Comments

Cross-pollinate

There are countries that still respect the contingencies of nature. Specifically, if there has been early snowfall and plenty of it, ski resorts in the Alps get the benefit of opening early with plenty of trails to offer. But if there is late or little snow, then livestock farmers reap the benefit of an extended grazing season.

Nature giveth and nature taketh away; blessed be the Lord! Needless to say, in those countries with respect only for human control/man-ipulation of nature,…

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Added by Clem Gerdelmann on 1st mo. 20, 2014 at 11:30am — No Comments

The Quaker Game of Life

Does this sound like something to be excited to join?

The idea of this game is more important than the contestants playing it. However, no one can really tell you what the idea is exactly, but only that it is more important than the players. In fact, the idea, now an objective, is so important that it needs to be considered from every perspective by the not-as-important contestants. This process of deciding the essential idea of the game of life will take up most of life's playing…

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Added by Clem Gerdelmann on 1st mo. 13, 2014 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Skipping Stones

If the Brits can refer to the Atlantic Ocean as "the pond", then who's to say that the experience of Judeo-Christian religion is not a day at the park.

Weighty Friends are just the latest stones that God has skipped across our troubled waters. Certainly, the O.T. prophets, and even a couple of kings, came at the chosen people with competitive purpose.

Of course, the stones that hopped, almost to dancing, into salvation history by psalm and story are a delight, still experienced…

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Added by Clem Gerdelmann on 1st mo. 6, 2014 at 8:00am — No Comments

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