Sep 20 2006
Can’t We All Just Get a Loan?
I was born the 11th of 12 kids. One of the joys/woes of coming from such a large clan is that my siblings are incredibly diverse, running the gamut from ultra-Pentecostal evangelical to neo-pagan and covering just about every stripe of the political and social spectrum. Most of us siblings have kids and/or grandkids by now with minds of their own, so the situation amplifies by orders of magnitude. Our family email list frequently devolves into gun play when faith or politics or football come up and occasionally someone will get in a snit and ask to be removed from the fambly list. I think it’s evidence that God has a sense of humor and that He isn’t done with us yet.
September 20th, 2006 at 18:42 pm
…and then there’s that other half of the family to deal with!!! :}
September 25th, 2006 at 15:29 pm
[...] My dad had 12 kids in his family, 10 of whom are still living, and with my Grandma, the in-laws, and many of we cousins, much of our keeping-in-touch is done through an e-mail loop. Between all involved, there is an extremely wide variance in religious convictions, personality, political viewpoints, etc. *Everyone* thinks that *they* are right, and of course, that results in frequent verbal explosions. [...]
October 1st, 2006 at 05:34 am
Very fitting I think: “God is the inner principle of all movement, the only identity which already fulfils and illuminates the universe. Everything is incorporated in this one principle, because it encloses infinity, it includes everything, and there is nothing that could be outside of it. ” Giordano Bruno