And Free toons from now until Christmas, by Soofjan!

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The Books – Take Time

Excellent music video for the day.  Simply, take time:

The Books are coming to The Cultch tomorrow night at 8!

The full-length video for “Take Time” by The Books. This and twelve other full-length music videos are included on our Playall DVD, which you nab at our Web site: www.thebooksmusic.com

For the First Sunday of Advent

Jeremiah 33:14-16
Psalm 25:1-10
1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
Luke 21:25-36

Wonders if…

I really wonder if some of the reason why we wail out at our mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers, friends, family and God is because we sense their disapproval.  But what if, maybe they’re not judging us?  What if maybe they’re just pushing us more toward what is right for us.  Because they love us, they want what’s best for us.  Why is it then, that this is so hard to accept?  Why do we wail out at the pressures of this love?  And then suffer to learn a lesson from this after.

I haven’t always learned a lesson after.  I wasn’t aware that I was in a lesson before, suffering to make the same mistakes over and over again.  Until, well, recently, I guess.  These are lessons, and we are struggling.  And this is the only way we’ll be burnished by fire and refined.  Of course, we have to take the steps too, to put that learning into action, to live it out.  To learn from the lessons.  To learn from mistakes.  Or we won’t grow.  And there could be multiple lessons going on at once, or there could be one after the other.  As Denise Caldwell said, when we learn from one, it doesn’t mean it’s finite, that it’s over, we will revisit them through the seasons.  Learning is the only way we shall address them as they come again.

I should have a Wonders if… category too, for I do often wonder…

HOME

And finally (for now), for your viewing pleasure, I’d like to include the link to the entire viewing of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s HOME (2009), which is a beautiful film I saw at the Vancouver International Film Festival with my friend Vivian.  It is not only spectacular and visually stunning on the big screen, but it packs a punch as far as the sustainability talk goes.  You get two hours of visual aerial shots and a view of the world as no one has ever seen it before.  After I walked, or rather stumbled, out of the theatre, I felt like I had travelled all around the world in a little over two hours.

The aerial shots make for a unique high quality high definition lens out of which to view the world, while making you simultaneously aware of humanity, nature, and industrialization.  But don’t take my word for it, see for yourself.  I’ve included two options for links below.  Enjoy!

Ah, I feel that Pat would be proud of me.  Sort of a one year anniversary to energy.dare.

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