Way to go Emily

from the Westland Newspaper

Stevenson Middle School Honor Roll

Named to the honor roll for the first marking period at Stevenson Middle School were:

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Abuzir, Michael Acerrano, Samantha Acord, Laura Adams, Arika Agnew,
Sean Albaran, Shannon Alcodray, Sydney Alioto, Samia Alkatie, Cody
Allen, Kali Aloisi, Marissa Alvarez, Nathan Alvord, Brittany Arledge,
Josiah Ault, Christopher Babcock, Jessica Babcock, Michael Babler,
Megan Bache, Seth Baker, Julie Bancroft, Juliana Bangura, Samantha
Begdorian, Amelia Bennett, Sidney Bennett, Andrew Benyo, Jessica Berg,
Lindsey Bessinger, Emily Best.

Troy Beverley, Courtney Billings,
Matias Blanc, Veronica Blanc, Travis Blevins, Ryan Boczar, Casey Bone,
Justin Boone, Zachary Bower, Bradley Bowles, Dillon Bowles, Morgan
Boyd, Heather Bradford, Shelby Bray, Trudi Brothers, Alijah Brown,
Alexandra Bryan, Bradley Bryant, Jordan Buford, Jalyn Bulls,

Kingdom People

This comes via Jason Evans blog in So-Cal

The Ecclesia Collective
nurturing grassroots expressions of the kingdom in urban San Diego

By j evans on General   Richard Rohr from Jesus’ Plan for a New World via Inward/Outward: “I hope you’ve met at least one Kingdom person in your life. They are surrendered people. You sense that life is OK at their core. They have given control to Another and are at peace. A Kingdom person lives for what matters, for life in its deepest sense. There’s a kind of gentle absolutism about their life-style, a kind of calm freedom. Kingdom people feel like grounded yet spacious people. Whatever they are after, they already seem to be enjoying it – and seeing it in unlikely places. Kingdom people make you want to be like them…. Kingdom people are anchored by their awareness of God’s love deep within.” God, make us those kind of people. Amen.

jim at flag pole

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Here is a blast from the past! This is a picture of my “flagpole trial” at Moody. Moody had a tradition of “flagpole” for recently engaged students. You were strung up and slathered in shaving cream and then you had to be kissed by your finance in order to be released. Everyone who put shaving cream on you had to kick in $$ so that you could go out on a date after word. side note … check out the length of my hair! Some college friends put this up on Facebook.

a hero of mine

A while a go I wrote a post about who some of my heroes might be. In my thinking and searching I have figured out who one of them is for me. His name is Michael Frost. He is a missional church practitioner  from Australia. Below is two You Tube video links from a recent conference in Texas.

Live Web Cast

Author Jim Palmer (Divine Nobodies & Wide Open Spaces) will be doing a live webcast at 8:00 EST at Shapevine. Cost is free. Should be interesting.

Helping Out For Hunger

Today we braved the cold to help out the fight against hunger. www.curehungerher.org

more family time

This morning we saw my brother and his family off to travel back to Green Valley, IL. They left a little later than they wanted because we stayed up late watching the movie called, The Village. It was a pretty edgy movie and had some deep undercurrents that made you think.

After they left we cleaned up the house and transformed the house from the celebration of Thanksgiving to the celebration of Advent and Christmas. It is always such fun to get the things out and see the kids decorate the tree and tell stories about which ornaments are their favorites.

Later in day we went over to Ann Arbor and did some holiday shopping at 10,000 Villages store. The kids had saved up their own money and had a lot of fun picking things out for each other. Now they are wrapping and putting things under the tree.

uncle nates 33rd birthday

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Here we are celebrating my brother Nate on his 33rd birthday with French Silk Pie! Happy Birthday Nate! Glad that you are my little bro.

whole kit and kaboodle

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Here is a picture we took of my whole family while we were all together for Thanksgiving.

prayer at thanksgiving

                                            A Thanksgiving Prayer      
       

        Oh, God, when I have food
        help me to remember the hungry;
        When I have work, help me
        to remember the jobless;
        When I have a warm home,
        help me to remember the homeless;
        When I am without pain,
        help me to remember those who suffer;
        And remembering, help me
        to destroy my complacency
        and bestir my compassion.
        Make me concerned enough
        to help, by word and deed,
        those who cry out
        for what we take for granted.

      

~ Samuel. F. Pugh