D'Caffeinated Pickle

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Pluma Moos (fruit soup)

2 qt. water
1 c. seedless raisins
1 c. dried prunes
1/4 dried peaches
1/4 c. dried apricots
1/2 c. sugar
6 tbsp. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon (optional)
Wash fruit, add arm water. Cook till almost tender. Prepare paste with flour, sugar & salt. Now slowly constantly. Cook until slightly thickened. Serve warm or cold.

Does anyone have a better recipe than this?

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

get your fake fake here...

emerging church finds affinity with...

mennonites/anabaptists!
Lock the doors, Ethel, next they'll be wanting our pluma mouse recipe!
read TallSkinnyKIWI's post here:

and the winner is...

Kendra Israelson
who blogs here
and lives here
and is expecting this
so...
congratulations on one half pound of kenya aa - in your mailbox or greyhound real soon...

Monday, May 7, 2007

there's only 24 hours left till

i draw for this

a little odd...

This one has been seen almost 1000 times...
You'd think that people would get tired of it by now...
Of course there's always this new one

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Soul Graffiti

by: Mark Scandrette

Quotes:
“Today there is tremendous pressure on spiritual leaders to be spectacular and to “market” faith in ways that are simple, easy and easily consumable. Too often the promise of “the life you’ve always wanted” is actually the life no one is living.”

“We have all found ways to misuse the good gifts of creation to cope with anxiety and stress: anger, working, drinking, consuming, eating, indulging in elicit escapes, and perhaps as many other things as there are people. Sometimes what promised relief become the habits that form us in ways that hurt our bodies, our souls, our relationships, and the Earth itself. In one way or another we are all reaching out to find a new rhythm of life that is healthy, generative, and sustaining. Discovering that transforming rhythm is the essence of the good news.”

“We are more likely to trust messages that are inhabited…”

After more than 15 years in youth ministry, I am keenly aware of my short-comings, weaknesses, and failures. There are things I would change – but I really bear no guilt for my failings. They are I suppose part of the fabric of that God has chosen to weave. I am embarrassed at times – but mostly at peace. There is one thing that I bear guilt and shame over an above all else. It is the places where I have served to communicate, endorse, espouse, and defend the hollow, shallow, glossy, in authentic ‘faith’ that still parades itself in and out of our churches like a filthy whore. Glib answers, trite platitudes (I really didn’t believe or live), and contrived, slick ‘instructions’ have too often been a part of my ministry repertoire even if it only was once (which it wasn’t).
We (I) can get so good at spewing out and mimicking the latest greatest mantras or 4-step/4-week/4-results program, that we (I) forget to acknowledge the twinge of guilt each time one of these things roll of our (my) tongue.
Forgive me!
Would that I might inhabit the ‘essence of the good news’ more