All Things Seen and Unseen

Nothing to Lose Sleep Over

This riddle is doing the rounds locally. Can you see the answer (without googling!)?

I am:

• Greater than God;
• More evil than the devil;
• The rich want for me,
• Yet the poor have me;
• But if you eat me, you will die.

Who am I?

5 comments December 20th, 2006

Addictive Aquarium Game

If you’d like to waste a few hours here’s a fascinatingly addictive aquarium game to help you in your procrastination.

1 comment December 20th, 2006

Wednesday Week 2 of Advent

Readings: Isaiah 40:25-31; Matthew 11:28-30

Jesus confuses me. I love this gospel but my first reaction hearing Jesus words ‘I am gentle and humble in heart’ is to say ‘who are you kidding?’

We used to have a big red poster downstairs, done by Cafod I think, with a face of Jesus, Ché Guevara-style, and the words ‘Meek. Mild. As if!’ Someone nicked it—or maybe it was taken down in protest. Either way they were wise.

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4 comments December 13th, 2006

Post Plugins Updated

Similar Posts, Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments have all been updated. The update is an interim bug-fix until the next real versions are ready. Two bugs are addressed.

One caused some users to get spurious characters displayed before the post listing.

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Add comment December 6th, 2006

Discipleship

The following talk was given to a weekend retreat group. I begin by referring to a session the previous evening where I’d shown a couple of clips from the film American Beauty in which the central character, at the point of death, reflects on his life and finds himself moved by gratitude and beauty. I asked the group to do their own reflection:

• What would you like to flash before your eyes in that last second, that ocean of time?
• What are you grateful for–really, spontaneously grateful for?
• Where is the beauty in your life and where is it leading you?

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7 comments December 2nd, 2006