Hey Tom, liked your post. It brought a lot of light. So, here's a snap shot of the Indy life.
Today was a little different. It's Friday, which is usually our day off, but 3 guys Justin, Joe and Zach came down with Walt Seale for the weekend. They got in late last night so we had a late start.
10:00 Do some personal prayer down stairs in common office - all rooms full up
10:30 Coffee happens with household. I just get up and walk across porch to over side.
11:00 Chores: Joe mows side-field (God bless him)
12:00 NoVA guys and I head to IUPUI for tour of hotel, UC, the quad, library, etc. Talk about what it's like to preach right where stand to do it in UC. End up under shade trees in hotel courtyard about how to start a conversation.
1:30 Return early. Abe picks us up, and we get back with enough time for Justin and I to talk a walk. Solid senior, I think God's got some plans. Upon return we figure out the Iliad and Martin Luther before dinner.
2:30 Dinner! Praise God. Women have packed and will leave directly for Women's Retreat, but we all eat Hannah egg salad sandwiches on donated Panera (God be praised) and Loughrin cookies and Ellen's carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Amazing.
3:50 Abe and I - dishes.
4:15 Head to Southside for evening o' mission.
4:30 Hour of mission prayer. I was talking with Holy Spirit about our future and wanted to set higher expectations. We talked about Paul's imprisonments and His directness of communication through visions.
5:30 Zach and I head hit the streets. Meet some new and old folks. Repentance and the book of Acts was a part of conversation today. Zach preached Paul's first vision to a few people (as that's what he got in the hour of mission prayer).
8:00 Missionaries gather from all the corners of the Southside for quick debrief before headed back.
8:45 Night ends with more cookies from the Loughrins - thank you Jesus - and we sit and tell stories from the day. It was really wonderful. John and Justin prayed with a Vet for his girlfriend who's in the hospital. She called a few minutes later just to say she was feeling quite better. WOW. And we end with evening prayer. Abrazos all around.
Tomorrow I'm getting up for 4 miler with Joe at 6:00, we'll all pray at 6:30, then breakfast and painting all day. This will be payment for staying in house on Southside until December. Lord's Day dinner with all guys in Indy branch at Center.
What a life the Lord lives.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Saturday, September 01, 2007
The Hippie Grows a Beard
The summer gone, and a new semester ahead calls for a new introduction to Indy 2.0 and quick update on news.
During the summer of 06 I took a Philosophy class on the Southern planes of Minnesota. We lived on a farm, cooked our own food, lived with our classmates. I picked up book binding in some free time there, and have recently been able to restore two books; my own Christian Community Bible and Ruth's Grandmother's Bible which had lost it's cover, the spine and was in the process of shedding pages. All were able to be restored and it looks/feels like a usable book again.
In putting these books back together it struck me how I'd never really cared that much about a book before and how easy it was to just purchase another. But now what was manfactured - probably by massive sewing/glueing/cutting machines is a new creation. Instead of one more uniform product spat from the mouth of factory half way around the world, its someone's. This got me to thinking on clothes, furniture, and food - how we in the People of Praise are a people and how the pots and pans, the books and tables of different culture are wrapped up in who they are, what they're about, and how they live. Some day we might have our own architecture or form or communication. What does the People of Praise style/genre/worldview/lens look like in the normal, the everyday?
This last week we completed our move from 1444 Rembrandt into the Duplex across the street. We had been renting the Rembrandt house for these last 8 or so months and now our contract has come to an end. Looking from front, the guys have right-side, women have the left. Upstairs are private, 1st and basement floors are common. As you walk in to the guys side from our wide-shared porch you have to walk through the office, then our common study to get up the stairs to stuff rooms and sleeping floor-space. Right now the guys kitchen, which is behind the stairway is torn up, awaiting some more work.
The gals got the common living room, dinning room and soon-to-be incredible kitchen. The two sides' floor plans are laid out as mirror images.
And speaking of mirror:
Shalom.
photos by Mary Seale
During the summer of 06 I took a Philosophy class on the Southern planes of Minnesota. We lived on a farm, cooked our own food, lived with our classmates. I picked up book binding in some free time there, and have recently been able to restore two books; my own Christian Community Bible and Ruth's Grandmother's Bible which had lost it's cover, the spine and was in the process of shedding pages. All were able to be restored and it looks/feels like a usable book again.
In putting these books back together it struck me how I'd never really cared that much about a book before and how easy it was to just purchase another. But now what was manfactured - probably by massive sewing/glueing/cutting machines is a new creation. Instead of one more uniform product spat from the mouth of factory half way around the world, its someone's. This got me to thinking on clothes, furniture, and food - how we in the People of Praise are a people and how the pots and pans, the books and tables of different culture are wrapped up in who they are, what they're about, and how they live. Some day we might have our own architecture or form or communication. What does the People of Praise style/genre/worldview/lens look like in the normal, the everyday?
This last week we completed our move from 1444 Rembrandt into the Duplex across the street. We had been renting the Rembrandt house for these last 8 or so months and now our contract has come to an end. Looking from front, the guys have right-side, women have the left. Upstairs are private, 1st and basement floors are common. As you walk in to the guys side from our wide-shared porch you have to walk through the office, then our common study to get up the stairs to stuff rooms and sleeping floor-space. Right now the guys kitchen, which is behind the stairway is torn up, awaiting some more work.
The gals got the common living room, dinning room and soon-to-be incredible kitchen. The two sides' floor plans are laid out as mirror images.
And speaking of mirror:
Shalom.
photos by Mary Seale
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