So i never really appreciated the beauty of toasted breakfast food... in fact i intentionally avoided all bread goods that were purposely browned for that hard, dry, mouth scratching effect. YUCK... (plus it often made the roof of my mouth bleed...) until lately... i've recently switched over from English muffins to bagels and mmm... boy...
so i spread the cream cheese on the bagel before toasting, and let me tell you, it's like eating a roasted marshmallow for breakfast! (and I dont even like roasted marshmallows... which is why this makes absolutely no sense!). That crispy outer layer of the bagel; followed by a soft, chewy layer; and topped off with slightly melted cream cheese sandwiched in between... MmMMmm!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Change...
i been reading the biography of Henri Nouwen lately and its been real good... From the way this author portrays him, i don't actually think i would want to spend too much time with Nouwen, but it's been real interesting to read his journey. At one point Nouwen spent time living in Bolivia and Peru during a tumultuous time in the history of many Central and South American countries with political and economic instability. It caused him to wrestle with his faith, his vocation, and his understanding of God...
It changed him.
"Nouwen's experience in Latin America created a social dimension in his own spiritual journey. He became aware that the pilgrimage with God in the world is a pilgrimage with God's people in their struggle for liberation from all the social, political, and economic forces that deny their dignity, create their hunger, and allow their oppression. By living with the poor, he knew first hand the meaning of poverty, where there is no food, no water, and no shelter; he experienced insecurity in being unsafe on the streets because of military control and political domination. He came to realize that religious expression is more about a group of people searching for God's love in the ordinary events of life and death in their neighborhoods than in the rituals of institutions or churches. [...] The struggle to which the God of the bible called people was much longer than the struggle for political or economic rights. It is a struggle against all the forces of death, wherever they become manifest, a struggle for life in the fullest sense."
It changed him.
"Nouwen's experience in Latin America created a social dimension in his own spiritual journey. He became aware that the pilgrimage with God in the world is a pilgrimage with God's people in their struggle for liberation from all the social, political, and economic forces that deny their dignity, create their hunger, and allow their oppression. By living with the poor, he knew first hand the meaning of poverty, where there is no food, no water, and no shelter; he experienced insecurity in being unsafe on the streets because of military control and political domination. He came to realize that religious expression is more about a group of people searching for God's love in the ordinary events of life and death in their neighborhoods than in the rituals of institutions or churches. [...] The struggle to which the God of the bible called people was much longer than the struggle for political or economic rights. It is a struggle against all the forces of death, wherever they become manifest, a struggle for life in the fullest sense."
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