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An update for 2007...

So you would think I would blog about technology or have a large useful website since the internet is my job. But no! I am online all day everyday and I am already an addict to email. And so even if--theoretically speaking--I happened to post stuff somewhere online I do NOT need another website! Trust me I don't. There are some great websites out there.

So why have this space? I need a place to store designs I am trying out for people or a place to post photos etc.

This is also a nice list of bookmarks for me to quickly access some other people's blogs I read. A place to list the dots of brightness online that are friends and folk. Check them out to the right.

Heidi Griepp

Favorite Orange dot of brightness this season

Early Morning Choice
January 8th, 2007 by Liz VerHage

Choice is a powerful reality. If I am forced to do something, something that even in a different setting I might have chosen to do on my own, the coercion itself makes the action bitter. Choice is usually freedom, space to authentically be who we are, and often correlates with power. Choice usually is exercised best with maturity, thoughtfulness, and in community.

I’ve been thinking a lot about choice lately and wrestling with the times that I can’t seem to choose to not have something or someone else affect me, or those times that I can’t fully live into a choice I thought I had made (like choosing/committing to make a change in my life, but then having trouble living that consistently). There are also times when I, or others, really are, truly, without choice at least in part of ou reality (oppression, voicelessness, being ignored or overlooked, being denied something or undervalued). There are many things I cannot choose, including what others do, how others see or treat me, and how the world at large will move along - that kind of thing. But there is a mighty long list of things that I can choose, including the all-important how I respond to those things that I cannot choose, which is really how I choose (or don’t choose) to intentionally live my days. I am not heralding ‘choice’ here as an individualistic, consumer-oriented right of some kind, but rather pausing to acknowledge how much we can choose to let God in, listen, rest, reflect, and have an open posture toward others and toward times - with or without choices we might want. Here is a reflection by Max Lucado that I appreciate, titled “I Choose”.... [read the rest here]

Photos

April 2006: View Vancouver trip photos here.