so very hot
Monday, January 29, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
In love's service only the wounded soldier can serve.
The American playwright Thornton Wilder wrote a magnificent short play, The Angel That Troubled the Waters. Do you know the story? It's poignant and powerful. It involves the pool at Bethesda, the famous pool in Jerusalem where the people believed that a movement of the surface of the water was caused by an angel. The pool was surrounded by the ill and disabled who, as soon as they saw the waters being stirred, would quickly enter the pool, as they believed that the first person to enter the moving water would be healed.
In Wilder's play, there was a physician who would go to the pool with some regularity, wishing to be healed of his afflictions of melancholy and remorse. One day as he sat at the edge of the pool waiting and the waters began to stir, the angel appeared and stopped him from getting in. "Healing is not for you," the angel told him.
The physician was very upset. Why could he not receive this precious gift?
The angel responded, "Your melancholy and remorse, and the timbre in your voice when you speak to the broken and wretched, speak volumes and have a healing effect on them. Healing is not for you."
Still, the physician was troubled. But then a man who had been healed and was rejoicing came over, and said, "Would you come home with me just for one hour? My son is thinking dark thoughts. I can't communicate with him. You are the only person who has ever been able to lift his spirits. And since her child died, my daughter sits in the shadow. She won't listen to us, but she does listen to you. Please come home with me."
The angel, standing nearby listening, said, "In love's service only the wounded soldier can serve. All the angels themselves do not have the power to heal as you do."
The American playwright Thornton Wilder wrote a magnificent short play, The Angel That Troubled the Waters. Do you know the story? It's poignant and powerful. It involves the pool at Bethesda, the famous pool in Jerusalem where the people believed that a movement of the surface of the water was caused by an angel. The pool was surrounded by the ill and disabled who, as soon as they saw the waters being stirred, would quickly enter the pool, as they believed that the first person to enter the moving water would be healed.
In Wilder's play, there was a physician who would go to the pool with some regularity, wishing to be healed of his afflictions of melancholy and remorse. One day as he sat at the edge of the pool waiting and the waters began to stir, the angel appeared and stopped him from getting in. "Healing is not for you," the angel told him.
The physician was very upset. Why could he not receive this precious gift?
The angel responded, "Your melancholy and remorse, and the timbre in your voice when you speak to the broken and wretched, speak volumes and have a healing effect on them. Healing is not for you."
Still, the physician was troubled. But then a man who had been healed and was rejoicing came over, and said, "Would you come home with me just for one hour? My son is thinking dark thoughts. I can't communicate with him. You are the only person who has ever been able to lift his spirits. And since her child died, my daughter sits in the shadow. She won't listen to us, but she does listen to you. Please come home with me."
The angel, standing nearby listening, said, "In love's service only the wounded soldier can serve. All the angels themselves do not have the power to heal as you do."
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
whooooooooooo
lets get random! uhm, been busy. we tore our house apart and its finally being put back together again. what started out as some minor fixes turned into an extreme makeover home edition! except no one gave us free stuff.. anyways it looks good and i like it. ion, i need to get my study on! heres to disappearing for the next little while.. so guess what, i found my passport, and it looks like i'll be needing it as per recent travel regulations. well, hope this qualifies as an update, i'll end with this, something i came up with a while back, i call it lazy days.
lets get random! uhm, been busy. we tore our house apart and its finally being put back together again. what started out as some minor fixes turned into an extreme makeover home edition! except no one gave us free stuff.. anyways it looks good and i like it. ion, i need to get my study on! heres to disappearing for the next little while.. so guess what, i found my passport, and it looks like i'll be needing it as per recent travel regulations. well, hope this qualifies as an update, i'll end with this, something i came up with a while back, i call it lazy days.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
new year
oops its been a while, not much to say though.. a rockin new years eve at shar's, some new years eve sball in the cold, got all my cma dvds/books, back to work without a break til april, stopped worship team at church, went to go visit loo, trying to book winterlicious.. uhm yeah. thats that.
in other news, anyone watch season 6 of 24? omg omgomgomgomgomgomgogmggg.. no spoilers i promise but let me just say that episode __ is probably the best episode ever, in all seasons. i wont fill in the blank, but if you've seen it you'll know what im talking about.
oops its been a while, not much to say though.. a rockin new years eve at shar's, some new years eve sball in the cold, got all my cma dvds/books, back to work without a break til april, stopped worship team at church, went to go visit loo, trying to book winterlicious.. uhm yeah. thats that.
in other news, anyone watch season 6 of 24? omg omgomgomgomgomgomgogmggg.. no spoilers i promise but let me just say that episode __ is probably the best episode ever, in all seasons. i wont fill in the blank, but if you've seen it you'll know what im talking about.
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