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The Case of Sergei Prokofieff

Schematic conceptualizations and logical-semantic artifices in the work of Sergei O. Prokofieff

Bogdan Geantă

apfI read Anthroposophy and the Philosophy of Freedom, by Sergei Prokofieff. It has almost 300 pages, sixteen chapters, two annexes and about forty sketches! After going through such a vast material, in which the author seeks to condense the entire anthroposophy and even more, it is difficult to make an overall assessment without severely challenging your reflection abilities. Nevertheless, let’s be daring.

When we begin to acknowledge the world and ourselves, our ‘I’ – the eternal and thinking part inside of us – finds itself caught in the net of ephemeral things and is cooped up from every direction, especially when it comes to knowledge. It doesn’t know who he/she is, nor what it is doing here and what does it have to do in the world of beings which are born, live and die. Anthroposophy is the knowledge which takes us out of this state of confusion and longing, and offers a firm ground for the fulfilment of our most noble aspirations, which help us give a deep meaning to life.

I came to anthroposophy, in the first instance, due to the fact that Rudolf Steiner is an extraordinary thinker, whom you cannot leave aside. The understanding began for me with the cold judgment, and continued by asking questions and keeping an open attitude. The soul opening towards the message came then and together with it the most inner soul forum has been touched. Indeed, getting to know the laws which are full of wisdom of the spiritual world, especially the moral laws, has led me to both the conceptual understanding with much clearness of the issues in discussion, as well as an understanding as a confirmation which comes from the most profound level of the soul. I consider of special importance the dimension of the experience, as it is the sine qua non means of changing or correcting those ‘surface’ attitudes and habits, and of conceptions which can only result from ignorance. This experience which I referred to has, as one can see, an objective dimension – of concepts and ideas – and a subjective one – of soul perceptions. This being said, it is easy to acknowledge the minimum pretentions that a message needs to satisfy, when we talk about an anthroposophical contribution. In the following, I shall discuss the book of Prokofieff in respect to two aspects.

In respect to the aspect of soul experiences, as I can only have a subjective opinion, I shall not insist too much. I can imagine that there can be people for whom reading this book could give a special impression. For me, Anthroposophy and the Philosophy of Freedom is a conglomerate of representations with a strictly informative role. We meet, of course, the great ideas of anthroposophy – Sergei Prokofieff, as we well know, is a remarkable connoisseur of the work of Rudolf Steiner – but they are incarcerated in a schematic warp of thinking proposed by the author.

In regard to the conceptual clearness, about the way in which the author handles terms, notions and ideas, we have several thing to say. Here they are.

”A sevenfold path”

The first chapter starts with the linking of some of the terms in The Philosophy of Freedom with other terms from The Stages of Higher Knowledge (GA12). Once the respective link is made, the author has an open way into freely walking his reader in all anthroposophy, which he really does. It seems that the walk is not at all meaningless for the reader – Prokofieff provides much information which he transmits in a very direct way. Nevertheless, I would like to draw attention to something else: the second phrase of the chapter already takes us to an encounter, and not a pleasant one, with the first semantic side-slip. In GA12, Rudolf Steiner talks about four stages of knowledge, the first one being the knowledge mediated by the sensible world, and the other three levels of supersensible knowledge (imaginative, inspirative, intuitive). Afterwards, he enumerates and details the elements which compose the first level of knowledge: the object, the picture, the concept and the ‘I’. Although Rudolf Steiner names them every time ‘elements’, Prokofieff finds it proper to say the following: “Following this, he [Rudolf Steiner] points out that, properly speaking, the first stage includes four more levels or four factors”. In what follows, Prokofieff refers to the four elements as if they were different levels of knowledge, referring to them all the time as ‘stages’. That in an act of knowledge of the sensible world the interaction of all enumerated elements would be required, and that no level of knowledge of the ‘object’ could be discussed without the knowing subject (the ‘I’) is a self-explanatory thought, but still a secondary one, if the chief aspiration of the author is to align them to his scheme.

And the scheme continues as such: The first ‘stage’, which is the ‘object’, ‘corresponds’ to the term of ‘perception’ in The Philosophy of Freedom; the second, which is the ‘mental picture’, is “also called by Rudolf Steiner ‘individual concept (or idea)’.” Let’s stop for a moment to observe that, while the first claim is just completely futile, the second is, moreover, also inexact. The notion of ‘picture’ in GA12 cannot be assimilated to the notion of representation, in the sense of ‘individual concept’. “Let us imagine, says Steiner, that we see an object with a circular form. Then let us take our eyes from it and keep in mind the picture of the circle. Here we still don’t have the ‘concept’ of the circle. This result only when it’s said: ‘a circle is a geometrical figure by which all points are equally distant from the centre’.”

“As a further elaboration – continues Prokofieff in the same dilettante manner, referring to the Goethean terminology this time – the faculty of the ‘participative power of discernment’ belongs here as well”, as it “unfolds in that region of the soul that lies between outer perception and pure thinking”. Let us see if this is right. Goethe names ‘intuitive power of discernment’ the faculty through which we can understand organic matter (Rudolf Steiner, Goethean Science). Only at this point can we say that we are at another level of knowledge, as the explanatory element – the concept – and the explained element – the perception – are one and the same. This is however nothing else, then the case of pure thinking, and because it is the pure thinking, it cannot stand under any circumstance between itself and something else. To be more clear, we can distinguish between ‘pure thinking’, as a process through which thinking, in general, becomes the object of observation, and ‘intuitive thinking’, where the thinking of the researcher creates (1) and observes a precise thought, which must have an objective reality in the structure of the object of knowledge – the case of the research of the organic world – or a moral idea, on the basis of which one shall act in a particular situation. To put it simple, the thinking of the researcher discovers the thought of God as lively reality, as Idea in the objective world, respectively decides to introduce the Idea in a creative way in the world of perceptions, through moral doing. The Idea is not in any case the result of abstractions based on representations of the sense world, but it is the product of the thinking which contains in itself the force to go beyond the borders of sensitive observable objects.

(1) In order for any idea to be observed, first it needs to be created with one’s own thinking. Even in the case of reading, one must, from the letters of the text, to reproduce myself the ideas asserted by the author.

After passing this obstacle as well, the persevering reader meets the third ‘stage’, of ‘the concept’. Here the author distinguishes between ‘intuitive thinking’ and ‘pure thinking’ and this distinction seems so important to him, that he finds it appropriate to solve it in a footnote at the end of the book. Therefore, in order not to complicate even more a situation which is already tangled, we shall leave it there where it lies, with the confessed hope that no one might take it seriously.

Further, the author writes: “The fourth stage, that of the ‘I’, corresponds to the ‘exceptional state’, as described in The Philosophy of Freedom in which, through the heightened activity of the ‘I’ (an activity that brings forth thinking creatively), perception of the ‘I’ itself can likewise take place. On this stage the ‘I’ is thus the entity that brings forth thinking and observes it.” As this ‘exceptional state’ is nothing else than the state where thinking observes itself and, therefore, “the observed object is of the same nature as the activity which is aimed at it” (GA4, chap. III), it seems obvious that in this place the topic is again the pure thinking.

Then Prokofieff adds to these four ‘stages’ the other three – intuition, inspiration, and imagination, and so, from four elements enumerated by Rudolf Steiner, he makes seven – ‘a sevenfold path’.

As we managed to get here, we cannot suppress a question: is it maybe the mystical weight of the number seven the cause-purpose of this conceptual Babylon?

”The exceptional state”

Unfortunately for the reader, neither the idea of the observation of thinking, layed out in Chapter III of The Philosophy of Freedom (GA4) – which Prokofieff, during the whole book, exasperating calls ‘exceptional state’ –, does not slip away unharmed. Thus, although Rudolf Steiner says, in respect to the situation where one observes the thinking itself that “I can never observe thinking in the moment when it unfolds” (Rudolf Steiner, GA4), on page 9, Prokofieff writes the following: “This is precisely the nature of the exceptional state, where thinking directs its attention upon itself so as to be able to observe its own activity. At this instant, in so doing, the bringing about of this exceptional state and its observation form a unity.” For this assertion – which is evidently in contradiction to the text of Steiner, which, as he confesses in the Epilogue, he intends to make accessible to us – Prokofieff does not have, so far, any explanation. Only on page 33 (?) he resumes the idea and says Rudolf Steiner has referred to the situation on this side of the threshold. “After crossing the threshold however”, Prokofieff ensures us, “one can produce thinking and simultaneously observe it.” This statement, which the author, being very convinced, takes as obvious and does not bother to establish it in any way, comes as an addition to the description made by Steiner, regarding the first spiritual experience of the splitting of personality in the case of the occult disciple.

Therefore, these are the facts. Let’s take them one by one. When referring to the simultaneousness of producing and observing thinking, by saying “This is precisely the nature of the exceptional state”, although Rudolf Steiner denies on many occasion this possibility, Sergei Prokofieff shows an elemental lack of fidelity towards the thinking of the author which he comments. And this lack of fidelity is not at all softened by the ‘amendment’ on page 33. When he places in a hypothetical ‘other side’ the possibility to produce and observe thinking simultaneously, it is clear that it does not relate to what Steiner names, in GA4, ‘exceptional state’.

But the consequences of the confusion which Prokofieff produces around an important idea in The Philosophy of Freedom can only be assessed by someone who participated in study groups. For someone who is in his first excursions into the universe of philosophical writing, and who wriggles because he does not understand much, the idea that it is possible, although not yet, to produce thinking and, simultaneously, to observe it, is like a wooden board for the shipwrecked. What does it matter that somewhere, in the impenetrable thicket of the text, Steiner states that such a thing is not possible? The intention of the author is so far away, that one cannot see it anymore. Although I can never emphasize adequately its importance, I shall cite it here, hoping that it shall not be put aside: “The reason for which we cannot observe thinking in the time when it unfolds is identical with the one who allows us to experience it more direct, more intimate than we could experience any other process in the world” (our emphasis added) – Rudolf Steiner, GA4, chap. III. This must be understood, observed, experienced, felt.

At the end of this discussion, one must add that it is a very plausible hypothesis, that one may find enough people who would support the idea that ‘on the other side of the threshold’, the observation of thinking is possible at the same time when it is being created. In order to support such a statement, that person would need either to find the premises in the work of Rudolf Steiner, or to describe it as a personal experience. In both cases, the probability for it to be true would perhaps increase. But the certainty can only be obtained by personal experience, and, when we are embarking on a path of knowledge, certainty is all that matters most. One can only get gravelled when one sees the easiness with which many people take all kinds of assertions, as certain knowledge.

As the elucidation of the issue in discussion by direct experience is impossible for me at this time – as perhaps it was also the case of the author that I am discussing here (according to his own confession, Prokofieff was not clairvoyant) –, I can however examine how things stand with my present knowing capacities, and that is the sense of any serious study. The observation of thinking can only be done by thinking. I shall thus have observed thinking and observing thinking. But in the moment when it is created, the observed thinking does not exist, otherwise there would not be any creation. So we are left with the observing thinking which, if it turns towards itself, then we would not pertain to a thinking process, but to the perception of the ‘I’. When one perceives oneself in this way as an ‘I’-being, who lives the living process of thinking, one feels different in day-to-day life, when, consciously or not, one identifies with the one’s bodily nature, when one differentiates from one’s sensitive impressions the feeling of one’s individuality. Also, the relation with the world of ideas takes a different quality. Ideas are not anymore abstractions, pale shades which the brute force of sensitive impressions annihilate, sending them towards nothingness; rather now they produce a stronger impression, one feels them and takes them into account.

Metaphysics of the ‘Unconditionality’

Fortunately for us, in the vast contents of his book, Prokofieff does not often meet with philosophy. This is why, from chapter I, we shall jump directly to chapter IX, which has the title “Metaphysical Foundations for the Unconditionality in The Philosophy of Freedom”. If we set aside the title, where the author proposes the far-fetched task of finding in the field of metaphysics the basis for an epistemological undertaking, this chapter is questionable from the first phrase, which states: “The fundamental characteristic of the theory of knowledge presented in The Philosophy of Freedom is its unconditionality. Rudolf Steiner describes and motivates this unconditionality mostly in his book Wahrheit und Wissenschaft (Truth and Knowledge), which he names ‘Prologue to a Philosophy of Freedom’.”

First, it must be said that in The Philosophy of Freedom we are not dealing with a ‘theory’ of knowledge, in the sense in which it is the case in Truth and Knowledge (GA3) or in Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe’s World-Conception (GA2), which are by their form and content works of the theory of knowledge. It is obvious that they are about the same conception on knowledge, only described in different manners. And the essential difference is emphasized by the author in the subtitle of The Philosophy of Freedom: “Some results of introspective observation following the methods of natural science”. Therefore, the cognitive itinerary which Steiner proposes here, has at its base the mental observation, as the first words of chapter III, where he practically begins the research of the nature of knowledge, are: “When I observe how a billiard ball…”. On the other side, in GA3, the author starts from the status of the theory of knowledge as a fundamental philosophical discipline, and in GA2 from specific issues of this discipline, such as „establishing the concept out of experience”. Therefore, the difference between these works and The Philosophy of Freedom is similar to the one between the theory of scientific knowledge (epistemology) and the actual implementation of the scientific methods of knowledge in a particular field of research. I say ‘similar to’, as in essence it is the same conception of knowledge, but the path to it is somewhat different. Hence, the mental observation is the defining element of the conception presented in GA4, and not the ‘unconditionality’, which is specific to a purely theoretical approach.

Let us now briefly clarify the issue of the ‘unconditionality’. As a discipline meant to answer, among other things, the question: ‘what is knowledge?’, epistemology must realize this endeavour without starting from preliminary knowledge or premises, as these are in the end already results of some ways of cognition, which would therefore contain elements whose nature I do not yet know, that I just started to determine. Moreover, any knowledge base contains theoretical assumptions, hidden circumstances which can influence the results of the research, which justifies once more the pretention of the unconditionality which a true research of the nature of knowledge must fulfil. These issues, related by Steiner in GA3, are generally accepted, only that the main epistemological systems contain, at their starting points, hidden premises which bias the results.

This being said, let us come back to what Prokofieff proposes, namely, an incursion in metaphysics. Simply expressed, he wants to show us no less than the fact that every element of the structure of the act of knowledge, as it is described in GA3, corresponds, on a macrocosmic scale, to a step in the process of formation of the Holy Trinity from primordial Absolute. For this purpose, the author needs again the scheme of the structure of an act of knowledge, but, in comparison to the first chapter, where from four elements he needed to produce four stages, in order to come to the noble sevenfold path, this time, from four as they are, he needs to make three, in order to associate them with the Holy Trinity. The procedure deserves a closer look.

First, the reader finds in front of his eyes a passage from GA3 which states this: “Both outer and inner perceptions, as well as its own presence are given directly to the ‘I’, which is the centre of consciousness. The ‘I’ feels a need to discover more in the given than is directly contained in it. In contrast to the given world, a second world — the world of thinking — rises up to meet the ‘I’ and the ‘I’ unites the two through its own free decision, producing what we have defined as the idea of knowledge.” Although in the text we find four elements of knowledge: the ‘I’, the perception, the thinking, and the unity of perception and thinking, Prokofieff tells us that we must distinguish only three: “In what was said we must clearly distinguish three stages or three elements of knowledge.” And he gets rid of the ‘I’ from the scheme, but, as we shall see, he keeps with iron will the semantic equivalence of ‘stage’ and ‘element’, a sign that it is hard to part from the artifice which helped him develop his first scheme.

“If we want – writes Prokofieff further – to seek the absolute unconditionality in the creation of the world, we must return to the Foundation of the world which precedes all things, and that is called in old religions the ‘Absolute’. Only this absolute Divinity, and as such, before it appeared as Trinity, finds itself in the state where nothing precedes it. This original state is at the same time the absolute unconditionality.”

The first correspondence proposed by the author sounds therefore this way: Steiner’s theory of knowledge is unconditional – the Foundation of the world in unconditional. But, if we eliminate the lexical ambiguity introduced by the word “condition”, we shall see that we are in front of two different things. When one says, “the conditions of a flu epidemics have emerged”, it’s clear that one is not referring to the emergence of statements which express the knowledge that will favour the spreading of the nasty virus, but to the causes of the real world: the coming of the cold season, the lack of immunity of the organism etc. While the theoretical endeavour specific to the theory of knowledge is not founded on preliminary knowledge (premises), the original Foundation is uncaused, unpreceded by anything, is the primary cause of the entire world. Here Prokofieff either confuses the field of knowledge with that of existence, or, best case scenario, wants to suggest that there is no difference between them, when it comes to getting from micro- to macrocosm; or finds himself on the position of idealist philosophy, and believes the principle of the world is of the nature of ideas, and the phenomena of the world, in their succession, can be known as transitions from premises to conclusions, while the relations between them are of logical consequence and not in the form of cause and effect.

Simply put, the purpose of Prokofieff is to show that the unity of perception and concept in an act of knowledge corresponds at macrocosmic level, but in the field of existence, with the emergence of the Trinity from the Absolute. The world of perceptions corresponds to the Father, the thinking to the Son, and the unity of perception and thinking to the Holy Spirit. The argumentative means are – to express it euphemistically – arguable. For instance, he forces the adjacency of the ‘world which is directly given’ (the world of pure perception) – which, nota bene, is a state of things hypothetically conceived (2) – and the Absolute, understood as the original state of the Divinity, on the premise that in both these cases we cannot make judgments in knowledge. Only that in the first case the ‘world which is directly given’ as state of things precedes any knowledge, precisely because it is pure perception it cannot constitute, truthfully, a reality; while in the second, on the contrary, we are dealing with the ultimate reality, with the absolute being, for which any determination through an idea would be a constraint.

(2) “… man never encounters this world-picture in this form at any time in his life; he never experiences a division between a purely passive awareness of the “directly-given” (Rudolf Steiner, GA3).

The path of ‘instinct’ and the path of ‘motivation’

In chapter XII, we deal with a mainly esoteric interpretation of some passages from chapter IX of GA4. As we know, in chapter IX of The Philosophy of Freedom, the author discusses the determining elements of an act of will: the motive and the driving force. While the motive is the momentary conceptual factor, the driving force belongs to the characterological structure of the individual with its levels: instinctive, emotional and cognitive. A representation or idea will become motive of an action to the extent in which what it proposes will find the corresponding inclination, in the way the respective individual generally feels and thinks. And Rudolf Steiner enumerates in this chapter all types of driving forces and motives. If we understand the structure of an act of will, we will understand that for every deed one choses to do, one would always have a motive and a driving force. In a surprising way, Prokofieff states here that: “Rudolf Steiner describes two interconnected paths for the attainment of freedom” (p. 138) – “the realm of human instincts” and “the realm of motivations.” Let’s follow.

The first category of driving forces metioned in GA4 belongs to the instinctive realm. Here the perceptions – like hunger – determine the will directly, without the intervention of the concept or the feeling. Thus, Steiner states “The satisfaction of our lower, purely animal needs (hunger, sexual intercourse, etc.) comes about in this way.” At this point, the exegesis of Prokofieff hits us in this way: “If one asks from where human beings, who stand on this lowest level of development, bring along such a characterological disposition, the spiritual-scientific reply is that prior to their birth they were above all influenced by the lowest regions of the soul world (Kamaloka)” (pp. 138-139). Did Sergei Prokofieff address these lines to the holy angels? Or to us, mortals who are on the lowest stage of evolution because, to our shame, we are still used to sit before a dish?

Again in the category of driving forces which are perceptions, continues Rudolf Steiner, belong certain “percepts of the higher senses (our emphasis added). We may react to the percept of a certain event in the external world without reflecting on what we do, without any special feeling connecting itself with the percept, as in fact happens in our conventional social behaviour. The driving force of such action is called tact or moral good taste.” For instance, courtesy formulas, through the fact that they repeat at every meeting with different people, develop into automatisms.

Let’s follow now the interpretation of this passage in the light of prokofieffian esoteric knowledge and with the aid of diagonal reading.

“These to begin with ‘purely animalistic needs’ can, however, appear on the first stage in altered form which already here belong to the general level of civilized humanity. Rudolf Steiner calls such higher driving forces of action ‘tact or moral taste’. A human being who brings along these faculties of his characterological disposition into earth-life was connected prior to birth above all with the upper regions of the soul world…” (p. 139). So, dear reader, if you sit before a dish not because you’re hungry, but because of moral taste, you may have a chance: you are part of the ‘general level of civilized humanity’!

Hereafter, Prokofieff argues or, better said, claims that these two paths – of the ‘instinct’ and of the motive – are the paths of Buddha, and, respectively, Zarathustra, but also the paths followed by the Southern Mysteries, and, respectively, by Northern Mysteries, paths which Rudolf Steiner unites in his conceptual intuition on the level of knowledge, as Christ united them as a being. Now everything becomes clear. As in the case of the previously discussed schemes, the author needs to operate semantically on the terms in order to make them fit in his project. Now he makes out of two elements of the act of will, two paths of evolution. To what absurd outcome his endeavour leads, we have already seen.

Instead of conclusions

We cannot handle here all argumentation errors which the author makes in the contents of the entire book. On the other side, it would not be fair to draw conclusions about the value of his writing, from these lines which concentrated on failed aspects of his discourse. Furthermore, I am no connoisseur of the work of Sergei Prokofieff. Still, I think that through the book Anthroposophy and The Philosophy of Freedom, he excludes himself from the list of authors who we may allow ourselves to read anymore. Who affords the luxury to verify on each page if he paraphrased correctly, if he interprets justly, if he makes valid inferences, when it is easier and more efficient to read directly Rudolf Steiner?

Again as a consequence of the observations made here, the hypothesis that the author Sergei O. Prokofieff has proceeded in the same superficial way – by describing in a distorted way also on other occasions the results of the research work carried out by Rudolf Steiner – becomes very plausible.

Finally, we should not forget the ones who were part of the spiritual-cultural environment of the author, the ones who promoted him instead of having a critical attitude towards some aspects of his message. In this sense, to me it seems very appropriate what Irina Gordienko says in the introduction of her book Sergei O. Prokofieff: Myth and Reality, as a reply to the formula of Herbert Wimbauer, in which Prokofieff appears as an exponent of ‘this Eastern, Russian Theosophical mysticism’: “…we would like to affirm that in this particular case neither the East nor Russia itself is to blame, as the Prokofieff phenomenon with its significance as ‘science’ and for the ‘Society’ is a pure product of the West and only of the West. It is there that he was cherished and – with every possible means – supported. His ‘fame’ was – to our great misfortune – reimported into Russia. This fact cannot be challenged.” (

As an ending, I wish to express my gratitude towards the work of Sergei Prokokofieff. Through the imprecise manner in which he raised certain issues, it stimulated me to think them more seriously, than I would otherwise have done.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Week 84: PAINT

Ready for a new cue word?  How about a fresh coat of PAINT?!  Let's take this week's cue word and "brush up" on our CAS design skills by reviewing these helpful hints:

1.  One main image
2.  Lots of open space (uncluttered)
3.  Limited layers & embellishments
4.  Quick & easy to recreate

Let's see how clean & simple you can get this week!  Painting is rather messy sometimes, but thankfully CAS design isn't!  Here's proof!

Guest Designer:  Hannelie
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When choosing a background for a CAS design, keep the pattern simple with clean lines. Bigger proportioned patterns also contribute to a clean look.

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To achieve a spray paint effect, ink the sides of your stamp and sponge in a downward motion.
Yet another way to achieve CAS dimension, depth, and impact without layers or bulk.

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Keeping all of your stamping and embellishments in one spot helps build your focal point while leaving lots of white space.

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Use monochromatic color scheme to make your card look clean and simple.
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Use a stencil to create a clean and simple watercolour background for your CAS card.

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Clean lines are perfect for CAS design!

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Smaller images become the focal point when stamped on white in the same colour as your base.

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To pack a punch in all that white space, use bold colours with high contrast!

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Try stamping over a watercolor background.

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Surrounding a bright pattern with plenty of white space will keep your design CAS.

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Add punch to your sentiment by stamping and die cutting right on top.

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One-layer cards can still be colorful and interesting!

Now go have fun and don't forget to link up your PAINT creations by Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (CST)!

  1. Beautiful cards from the DT! Lovely inspiration from all!

  2. Despite my numerous attempts previously, i think i actually hit CAS this time and didn't let my OCD get in the way! LOL! Thanks for the fun challenges always and the great DT Projects!

    1. What?! I thought CAS design and OCD went together!!! :) Been there. Done that. We understand... So happy you could play along!


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Barclays and the latest scandal – what did you expect?

Saturday 30th June

The press and commentators are suitably outraged; well they would be, wouldn’t they.  But really, is anyone surprised?  After the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the absolute mess the financial system got itself into a few years ago it is completely obvious that there has been a total collapse of all morality, and legality.  Thatcher’s children piled into the City in their droves, while in America the disciples of Gordon Gecko took over the sweetshop.  It was all wonderful as long as they all made money, and paid huge amounts in Corporation Tax, and everyone colluded to just ignore the fact that it was not only corrupt but also building up another enormous bubble, which had to burst one day – just not while I am blowing air into it, please. You only have to meet anyone who works in the City, or just overhear them in a bar or restaurant to realise that this is indeed a totally alien world they inhabit.  Making money is all that matters..  And when you are dealing with the same people every day, of course you are going to get friendly and really who cares if we just bend the rules a little bit, or say what they want to hear.  As long as it makes money, and the bonuses keep flowing, that is all that matters.  Now, with suitable contrition and the scrunching sound of hands being wrung the top bankers all condemn the wrongdoing of a few individuals who temporarily let slip the high standards of banking.  Well, just like the phone hacking scandal, we must ask who were these people, and whose orders were they following.  In reality it was never just a few individuals, it was a whole culture, which surprise, surprise is still continuing.  As long as making money is all that matters.

Death – The Longest Embrace

Friday 29th June

Each week appears to hurtle past; I seem to be forever wheeling out the wheelie bin, as if this was the very thing I was put here on earth to do.  And in two days time half of the year will be gone too.  I remember as a child how I longed for the millennium; one couldn’t even imagine being fifty, let alone writing the year 2000 as the date.  Then before I knew it, there it was, or there we were, Edward and I, watching the tiresome celebrations on the television, raising a glass of champagne at midnight 1999, but for what we weren’t at all sure, somehow now that it was here it was all an anti-climax.  Then came the plodding years, plodding through the days and weeks, and even with nothing much to do, still they race away from one.  And the mirror does not lie, no matter how many lotions and potions one applies there is no denying the passing of time.  And there grinning on one’s shoulder is the spectre, the shadow of death.  And some days one just wishes for the rest, the solitude, the quiet, the never-endingness that that might bring.  That cold but final and longest lasting embrace of all, when either we will be re-united with our maker, and ascend to heaven, or as I suspect that we will slip away into a cold cold coma, as the chill seeps into our every fibre until we feel nothing at all, and we slowly dissolve away, all pain and worries gone at last in the longest embrace we will ever know.

And still we all strive to carry on living, with each passing year the inevitability of our death looms larger, and yet we still cling to whatever we think we might have left.  We all resist that final embrace, and life, for the moment, continues.   But death knows how to wait, patience may indeed be its only virtue, for it knows that whatever we do to avoid it, it will have that final hug in the end.

It’s the Economy – Stupid

Thursday 28th June

The news that the deficit, rather than decreasing is actually increasing should come as no surprise.  As in any business, there are two sides to the coin, Income and Expenditure.  Oh, if only Mr. McCawber were still here to remind us what misery is ‘Income, nineteen and six, expenditure one pound’ for those that need reminding.  And George Osborne in 2010 set about correcting this anomaly with vigour, so how could it all have gone wrong.  Expenditure, despite the cuts is still rising.  Why is that?  Because if you sack a public sector worker, you do save their wages, but out of those wages they were paying income tax, and they were shopping and paying VAT on household goods etc:, plus of course their purchasing power was keeping others in jobs too.  Now they are on the dole, receiving housing and maybe other benefits, no longer paying any taxes, no longer having excess money to buy things in the shops, less VAT being paid and less jobs for people making those goods.  Maybe it was cheaper to employ them in the first place.  And actually they were doing something worthwhile, which now either isn’t being done, or has been outsourced, so there is not such a great saving to the public purse.  The other half of the economy is Income, and this, made up of tax receipts, has been falling, or rising at a much lower rate than the expenditure is rising.  Classic Keynes, if you are interested.  The problem was that the Bullingdon Boys thought they knew better, and that the private sector would step in and rescue them, but the private sector is busy getting rid of people as fast as it can, because in a recession they too have lower Income and want to reduce their Expenditure too.  So, a sorry cycle has started, which if we look at Spain and Greece will only get worse with more austerity.  At some point the electorate will wake up and smell the rot, or maybe not, maybe it will get much worse, and the Tories in ten years time will still be blaming Labour.  We’ll see.

Haruki Marukami – 1Q84 Book 3

Wednesday 27th June

The third part of a trilogy, that isn’t really one at all; it is simply a very long book split up, so that people buy two books rather than one.    If that sounds confusing it is; Books 1 & 2 are in Book 1, while Book 3 is a stand-alone second book.  And all so unnecessary too, it could have been an excellent book as one volume, especially if the pages of repetition had been excised, or at least hacked back a bit.  One doesn’t mind a bit of repetition, if it re-enforces the message, or helps to delineate motives or character, but Haruki seems to have brought repetition to a new dimension altogether.  And the story was good in places, but dipped for such long periods where so little was happening that one could easily have given it up as a lost cause.  There were as usual some great ideas floating around in there, especially the relationship between Tengo and his father, though even here there was a distinct lack of resolution.  The end was so inevitable and un-climactic as to make one wonder if a whole section was missing.  I have loved every other book by Mr. Marukami, and I did enjoy most of Books one and two (in the one volume – remember), but really book 3, could have been cut in length by two and have been far more readable.  But then it couldn’t have been a stand-alone book, could it?   And the publishers would have had to put it all in the one volume and got a lot less books sold.  A pity, as with some astute editing it could have been excellent.  5 out of 10, I think.

We’re all alone

Tuesday 26th June

The sad news of the death of ‘Lonesome George’ has shocked and upset me.  He was the last living member of the sub-species of giant tortoise known as Pinar.  George didn’t particularly seem to mind being the last of his line, as he studiously refused to mate with females of similar sub-species, preferring to keep himself to himself, and presumably to withdraw into his shell whenever the mood took him.  So, another splendid large land animal has disappeared, though there are still quite a few other varieties of giant tortoise around, at least for the time being.  But it made me think; what if we are all the last surviving members of different sub-species of humans.  And even reproduction will simply create another sub-sub species.  Because at the end of the day, and at the crack of dawn too, we are, despite being surrounded by others, all alone.  We are all the last unique example of sub-species ‘Catherine Latimer’ or ‘jane Wilkinson’ or ‘john Smith (version 6, 547,321).  Each one of us is different and in a tragic way all alone; despite our desperate need for the company of others, we can never be sure if anyone else actually exists, or if everyone else is nothing like us at all.  They do not think in the same way as us, they do not suffer pain the way we do, they do not have the strange notions that we have.  Like ‘Lonsesome George’ we are all just lumbering alone, occasionally distracted by a lettuce plant or a passing cloud, but essentially all alone.  And we go through life pretending to understand the world and other people, but barely have the capacity to understand ourselves.  Distant relations though we may be to ‘Lonesome George’ with his passing at last we are truly all alone.

Lonesome George

The Big Match

Monday 25th June

As you can probably guess although these blogs are posted at about 5 in the morning I do not write them then; I write them the day before and schedule them to be published a day in advance.  So as I write this I do not know the result of the big match, or what in the most improbable scenario might be the first of three big matches.  But in European Championships Italy are about as big as you can get, and even if by some amazing combination of uncharacteristic Italian sloppiness and a moment or two of genius by our boys we still have to meet Germany in the next round and then either Spain or Portugal.  To be honest the way we have been playing anything can happen.  Yes, we are incredibly poor at moments, such as when the Swedes scored two goals from almost identical free kicks, but then we have scored a couple of crackers, the best being Andy Carroll’s header against France.  But it is the nation’s response I am most interested in.  Possibly alone amongst foot-balling nations we almost revere defeat and are very skeptical of success.  If perchance we go one goal up, we are almost as apprehensive as if we hadn’t scored yet; it being only a matter of time before we surrender the lead and then when it is 1-1, we know for sure we are doomed.   Other nations are able to shrug off a one or even a two goal deficit, whereas both players and crowd and all the viewers at home seem to know it is beyond us to pull it back.  If we do win the game, there will be relief tempered by the much bigger mountain of Germany looming in the background, and even if we beat them there will probably be Spain to face; so we know we will never do it.  So, I wonder what the mood will be tomorrow morning when you read this; slight surprise that the Italians didn’t really turn up and we played better than we should have, mixed with that sinking feeling when we compare our performance with the Germans, or ‘We knew it, there was just no way we could ever dream of beating Italy, I don’t know why those commentators and all the newspapers built the team up so much, there was no way we were going to win.’   And, though my head falls into the second camp, my heart like the rest of England is in the first.

Interesting Times – The Market versus Democracy

Sunday 24th June

There is a strange disconnection between a right-wing market led philosophy and the politics of most European countries, which are basically social democrats.  The right wing which despite Bush and the financial crisis of 2008 has never gone away.  In a funny sort of way the worse their policies perform the more they argue that they aren’t right-wing enough.  ‘If Austerity is driving the countries of Southern Europe towards bankruptcy then it is because they weren’t Austere enough.’  And we must remember that the problem started in America, and with the investment banks reckless behaviour, just as it did in the 1930’s.  Obviously Governments around the world were too lax also, but that is with the benefit of hindsight.  And in fact it would have been very difficult for any Government to have bucked the trend and the markets would soon have singled out any country which had tried to rein in the banking system.  Part of the problem is this mad market philosophy, which reacts with violent swings to the slightest rumour and is in fact made up of hundreds of thousands of financial speculators who are nervously watching every tiny movement of stocks and shares because they stand to make or lose fortunes faster than they can click a mouse on the SELL button.  The market doesn’t think long-term, the market has no conscience, and yet there is a whole swathe of people who believe that the market is always right, despite the fact that for the last twelve years pension funds have performed so poorly that millions are looking to a miserable old age, and all thanks to the market.  So, interesting times, and despite the dire warnings I believe that democracy and politics will prevail.

There’s nowhere better than an English Holiday, except anywhere else

Saturday 23rd June

A few years ago now Tony Blair forsook the usual hospitality of the rich and famous and pointedly had an English Holiday.  This was to help promote the UK tourist industry which felt it was suffering at the hands of all those sunny hot places abroad.  And that is the whole problem with an English Holiday.  If, by some stroke of luck you can manage a few days of continuing sunshine, or at least no downpours, there is nowhere better for a holiday.  Even grimy rain-streaked concrete-lined London takes on a magic sparkle in those rare moments of sunshine.  And the beaches are un-crowded, and free from hawkers and expensive beach-chair rentals, there are lovely little villages to discover, there are beautiful and magnificent National Trust houses to wander round, there are gentle rolling hills and chalky cliffs to admire, there are fabulous restaurants tucked away in unexpected places, there is a hospitality next to none, and yet there is always the risk, or should one say the inevitability of rain.   When it is raining the beaches are deserted, the restaurants either full or for some unexplained reason closed, the pretty villages have no parking spaces, and picnics and ‘al fresco’ dining are out of the question.  Also it is so cold too that it hardly feels like a holiday at all, as the car is full of bickering kids, bored dogs and the remnants of too many sandwiches eaten in the pouring rain.  No-one asks Tony Blair where he holidays now, in fact except for public enquiries no-one asks him anything, but I bet he flies off to some hidden little Sardinian villa, or maybe Tuscany, or in the winter the Caribbean.  Margate it certainly ‘aint.

Invasion of the Sausage Snatchers

Friday 22nd June

Maybe our lives are just too busy, or we fail to communicate properly but quite often my partner and I will both decide to buy food for that evening’s meal.  She is a vegetarian, and rather than cook two meals I invariably forego the dubious carnal pleasures and eat something ‘veggie’ too.  Last night we both came home with Quorn sausages – actually if only they would come up with a better name these might be a bit more popular; they don’t taste so bad, though sausage shaped they lack that special porkiness of real sausages.  Anyway we were both looking forward to ‘sausages’, mash and onion gravy.  The potatoes were in the steamer, the onions fried and the ‘sausages’ gently browning.  At this point I must add that I had decided to cook the whole 2.5kg bag of potatoes and the whole pack of 8 sausages, a meal for four easily, but easy to reheat for that late night snack.   Just as it was ready to put on the plates, and our appetites sharply aroused by the smell of onions and sausage frying the doorbell rang.  Well of course the doorbell didn’t ring (another story for another time) but the dogs let us know someone was at the door.  Oh no, not visitors just as we were about to eat.  Alan and Alicija and baby Elan had come round to see us.  There were only two choices, one to shut the kithen door and pretend we had already eaten or the sensible one, to insist that they join us for sausage and mash – well there was plenty to go round at least.  In the end a pleasant evening even if we were inadvertent victims of ‘the invasion of the sausage snatchers.’

Runners Runners Everywhere

Thursday 21st June

Is it the sunny weather, a rarity so far this summer?  Is it the fact that the Olympics will soon be upon us?  Is it the football, which has suddenly made us all athletic?  Whatever it is I have never seen so many runners.   Quite often in my early morning walk with the dogs I see no-one at all, then there are mornings when all I see are fellow dog-walkers, all out with their little black pooper-scooper bags, at other times there appears to be a surfeit of cyclists cluttering up the pavement – hasn’t anyone told them – ‘This is a pavement, it is for people to walk on, just over there is a road, that is where you should be.’  Yesterday morning I saw runner after runner, and no before you suggest it, they weren’t from some amateur athletics group or a school, in fact that were completely disparate and I might add running in both directions.  There were the old men, wiry with silver curly hair and bright yellow tops and baggy white shorts, and elasticated socks that came too high up their calf, doing that strange half run, half walk, waddle that old men do.  There were the young city-clickers in the latest Nike matching gear with their fancy water bottle and i-pods, running in pairs.  There was the overweight but not too large mid-thirties woman in the tight black lycra shorts that left little to the imagination, and even less to desire.  There were the two Chinese girls, early twenties, seriously running in smart new Adidas tracksuits, and there were also the obvious first-timers who kept stopping to rest – fatal, if you are serious about running at all.  But where did they all come from? And why do I only see them on some mornings – I, the most regular dog-walker in the world.  Just one of life’s little mysteries I suppose.  Maybe I will meet a convoy of mobility scooters tomorrow; or an army of pregnant women all striding forward into a new dawn.  We’ll see.


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Monday, January 29, 2007

Miracle on 300th Street

Thought I would share the newsletter for the boys ranch that I just sent out. The last newsletter that was sent out in November I stated that a company backed out of a committment of triple matching a golf outing someone put on for us last June, 2006. We were suppose to receive the triple match in October and this was going to finish purchasing the cows to fill the dairy barn. The company decided to back out on this committment due to the fact that our website states that we hold bible study with the boys. This company had given already in January of 2006 to this ministry.
Here is a portion of the newsletter I just sent out on Friday. God is an Awesome God!

The last newsletter we sent out we ask you to join us in prayer and start believing that this ministry would not only receive a triple match, that would equal the $18,000.00 but God is going to double that triple match, because our God is a God who still performs miracles today, and he is going to display his power among the people. Well, we are excited to share that your prayers have been heard and MIRACLES DO HAPPEN! Since the last newsletter when I ask you to start believing to receiving, we have received the $36,000.00. Isn’t He an AWESOME God! The cows are completely paid for and $9,000.00 worth of corn is paid for to feed the cows. Our God is in the miracle business and He is using great people to help perform miracles in young men’s lives by keeping the doors of Miracles Can Happen Boys Ranch, open another year. We made it through another year and we are starting the 15th year, in 2007. We would like our thanks be made known for everyone that had a part in the miracles taking place in the year 2006 and as our Pastor put it on New Years Eve, may we hear from HEAVEN in 2007! I believe due to your prayers and support, we’ve already started to hear from HEAVEN. We are excited for what God has in store for 2007.

Testimony of 2006: Jim say’s “What is going on, why are you acting like this?” Boy says, “Okay, I’ll tell you why I’m acting like this because I don’t want to go home, I just want you and Cathy to adopt me, you are the only one’s that have ever made me do the right things. I’m scared that when I go home, somebody will lie or do something to make me mad because it’s wrong, and I will end up losing my temper.” This boy has told us several times that he feels good about himself for once. There is no way we could start to adopt the boys because it would be never ending but with your help in this ministry we can continue to bring more boys into this home and share the love of Jesus with them. Thank you for making a difference!

Friday, January 26, 2007

If we're wrong, just wasted words!

About 10 days ago I posted Jesus is the only way asking all believers who read this to lift boy #32 at the boys ranch up in prayer. Last night this boy was on his way to work and he was in a little wreck. He told us later that if he was 5 seconds earlier, the other vehicle could have hit him in the drivers door, and possibly could have killed him. We ask him if he thought about where he might spend eternity, if that would have happened. We told him if he wanted us to pray with him we were here, but we were not going to force Jesus on Him. My husband said, "I'm not going to get any extra crown or anything by you praying because I've already done my job with your life. I have shared with you what you need to do to have eternal life." He just fidgeted a little more. Then I said, "You know if we are wrong then the words you would have said in a prayer to ask Jesus into your life would just be wasted, but if we are right then where would you spend eternity?" Once again we assured him though that it needed to be his decision, and not ours, and it also had to be from his heart. He was very emotional, but never mentioned anything to us about praying with him. So we gave him his hug good night and went to bed ourselves with heavy hearts. God is definitely working on this young man's heart, and I'm asking again please join us in prayer for this young man's soul, my heart hurt for him when he was scared about his life and how he is struggling to accept God's Grace.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

My pesky bugs!

II Corinthians 4:13 "It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken. With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak,"

I just got done listening to one of my online lessons with Beth Moore "Believing God", she told me to tell that mountain to move and if God doesn't move that mountain, climb that thang! My mountain right now are these bugs on my bathroom floor everyday! I just swept my floor about 4 hours before I took this picture. Why can't my bugs look pretty like the other bugs in the picture above? I was sitting on my toilet today looking at my daily bugs, and thinking that is just like the enemy to rob me of my joy, I just swept the floor and there are the bugs again. So figure it up if I had 6 bugs on my floor after 4 hours, if I only swept my floor once a week I would have 252 bugs on my bathroom floor. I'm so sick of these bugs! Just like I'm so sick of the enemy robbing me of my joy and trying to send other bugs in my life, to keep me focusing on the bugs instead of focusing on the beauty of the one that created the bugs. I'm going to tell that mountain to move and if it doesn't move, because it might be stubborn like me, then I'm gonna climb that thang! I believe those bugs are going to leave! Thank you Jesus for loving me, even when I'm kind of pesky like the bugs in my life right now! Thank you for forgiving me when I let you down, and thank you for using people in my life to teach me. I love you Jesus!

Monday, January 22, 2007

Part one "My Story"

Mark 11:22 "Have faith in God, " Jesus answered.

Have you ever felt like your faith is sometimes wavy like it looks in this graphic? In the past 16 1/2 years my husband and I have been on a path of living by faith. I will admit it hasn't always been easy and there have been times I wanted to throw in the towel. I want to write a book someday, so I will practice with little clips here on my blog. So here is part 1 of my story. Not sure when the next part will come but keep visiting and in the mean time keep wondering.... to be continued!

Where are you God? I remember wondering this back in 1990 when God moved my husband, our three children ages 3, 5 & 6 and me about 500 miles away from my family that I had never been away from, the whole 26 years of my life. My husband and I decided that we were going to be the chess pieces and He, God, would be the master chess player, and where He would move us we would go.

Approximately a month before we moved we had visited a ranch for troubled boys. We heard about the ranch through, Intercristo, a Christian job placement network. After looking at the run down ranch, and talking to the program director, we left the property and fell silent. We were in awe after hearing the faith stories the program director shared with us, and couldn’t even talk. About 5 or 10 miles down the road, we both said at the same time. "What did you think?" Then at almost the exact same time again, we said, "Our house!" While we were there we were shown this run down three- bedroom trailer house that we would be moving into, while working with the boys on this ranch, if we took the job.

At this time my husband and I were doing pretty well. We married right out of high school, started a family not even a year into our marriage, and didn’t have any college degree. My husband was working in a factory making about $14.00 an hour back in 1990, I was doing in home day care, with several children, and my husband also was running a mechanic shop out of our two car garage. We had bought our first house 5 years prior when we were 21 years old, and it was on a corner lot, with a swimming pool in our back yard and a big fenced in yard for the children.

Guess what, my husband said, "are we sounding a little like the rich guy in the bible? We want to serve God but are we really willing to give up our earthly possessions to serve Him?" Wow did he step on my toes or my heart? Actually it hit both of us, and we both agreed that if God wanted us to serve Him then He would have to sell our home, because renting was not an option for us. So we called the realtor on a Tuesday, we talked, he came by and put a sign in the yard. This happened the day before the small town newspaper came out. We were thinking we have plenty of time, because this house was on the market a year and a half before we bought it and we were selling it for more than what we bought it for 5 years prior. I have something to tell you. If you are not willing to be used by God don’t tell him you are ready, if you really aren’t because he works fast. You see, the very day the sign was put in our yard the realtor called to show our house but we told him to wait until Saturday to show it because we had some painting to do. Is our God awesome or what? The couple that came to look at our house that Saturday bought our house and we moved within the next month.

So there we were packing up, and the program director of the ranch we were moving to called us. He said, "The couple that was living in the farmhouse about 2 miles away from the ranch just left today so you won’t be moving into the three-bedroom trailer house, you can move into the two story farmhouse." Is that just like Our God to try to out Bless us? Here we were trying to be a blessing and following His calling on our life. Instead He had to turn around and out Bless us by giving us the two-story farmhouse to move into. Wow, that just gives me the holy bumps all over again just reminiscing about the whole thing. Where are you God? He was right there all the time. The whole year and a half we were at that ranch, learning what ministry was all about, before He, the master Chess player, moved his players again. You want us to what? Where are you God?

Monday, January 15, 2007

Jesus is the Only Way!

1 John 4:15-17 "If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him." NIV

My husband and I have had 34 at - risk boys come live in our home in the last 14 years, we are so blessed to be able to share the love of Jesus with these boys. I will be honest it hasn't been an easy road, however, it has been a road to remember. God has used us as his tool, he is the master gardner and we are just the hoe that try's to turn up the top soil that has become so hard. We try to keep the boys with us approxiamately 2 - 2 1/2 years, because we feel if we get them around 14, and it took them this many years to get where they are, God needs some time to use us to build a firm foundation under their feet when they leave.

We have had boys here anywhere from 2 weeks to 4 1/2 years. As of right now every one of the 34 boys except one, which is living with us right now, has made a profession of faith. This is what brings me to write this post. My heart is hurting right now for this boy, because he has been with us for a year and a half and I realize the time is almost running out. As I'm writing this I'm thinking shouldn't our hearts hurt every day for loved ones that don't know Jesus, because our time is running out. No one knows the day or the hour. Wow, I don't know about you but what about your family members, are you constantly trying to reach them? I will have to say family is the hardest to witness to, but as I yearn for this boys salvation it is really making me think of my family members.
This young man refuses to ask Jesus to come into his life, he is probably the easiest boy we have worked with regarding attitude. He will also be the first to answer questions in morning devotions, and the first to ask questions in Bible Study at night. When we memorize scripture, he will be the first to have it memorized. Just the other day, he was getting ready to go for a job interview and he has been looking for a job for about a month, so as he was getting his keys to his car from me. I said, "Would you like me to pray for you?" He said, "sure", with no hesitation. When he came home with paperwork and a job, he was very excited. I shared with his excitement and then God gave me these words. "If you don't believe in Jesus, why did you not hesitate at all when I ask if you wanted me to pray before you left for this job interview." He just smiled and shrugged his shoulders and walked to his room.
So this post is to ask every believer in Christ that reads this to please lift boy #32 at the Miracles Can Happen Boys Ranch up in prayer that he will quit running from God and just hand the baton over to Jesus. After all God is still in the miracle working business here at Miracles Can Happen Boys Ranch.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Too young to be a Grandma?

Proverbs 29:17 "Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul." I don't feel too young to be a grandma today! Our youngest son, whom will be 20 in February, has joined up with us in our ministry, which we are very excited about, he is a great mentor to the young boys we work with. However, I don't quite understand this verse right now. Could you try to help me understand it? My son thinks he can discipline me now and he is not giving me peace or bringing delight to my soul. He is bringing aches and pains to my body because for some reason he thinks that his mom and dad need to do a work out with him 3 days a week. Ohhhhhh, am I sore but ohhhhhhh do I need this! So I guess I have handed the baton over to Jesus with Curtis because now he is raising me and teaching me what is right for me. But this isn't fair, I'm suppose to hand the baton over to Jesus not Curtis. Did it hurt Curtis this much when I was disciplining him? Yeah, I'm sure it did only instead of his back hurting his behind was hurting.
To be honest my son is giving me great peace and delight to my soul, because he feels that God wants him to be a mentor to young men right now in his life. It brings great joy to know that even though our son watched us struggle in this ministry, for the past 15 years, he must of seen the joy we have sharing the love of Jesus with these young men.
So even though I'm hurting right now, I know I need this discipline of exercising. I have struggled with back pain since I was 25, have spent several days down in bed because of my back, so my back does need strengthened and this is the only way it's going to happen.
Proverbs 15:32 "He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding."
Help me not to ignore this discipline, because I do want to gain
understanding, even if it is taking my baby to show me true discipline.
Thank you for disciplining me as your child when I need it, you are a
great Father and I love you. I want to praise you in advance for the
way you are going to help me feel young again! Thank you for bringing
Curtis, here, to join up with us in this ministry.
In Jesus Name,

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

2007 New Years Meditations!

Laurel Wreath invited us to post on our site about our hopes, dreams, and goals for the next year. What a great way to look at New years resolutions in a much different way.
I have been struggling with my prayer life for quite sometime and I have been so excited since Sunday morning service about the year 2007 and my prayer life. Since then, I have been reading What Happens When Women Pray by Evelyn Christenson and Too Busy Not To Pray by Bill Hybels and also the Busy Grandma's Guide to Prayer by Lisa Whelchel & Gentry Coleman, which I mentioned in my previous post "I will always be a mom but now I'm a Grandma!" The funny thing is I have already read the first two books I mentioned here and done a bible study on both of them. However, it's time to blow the dust off them and study them again, because I'm ready to Hear from Heaven in 2007! Our Pastor challenged us on New Years Eve to Discover the Dynamite and pray like we have never prayed before and Hear from Heaven in 2007. I'm excited because I believe that prayer is dynamite when it is lit on fire, and I'm ready for my pray life to explode in 2007, because I do want to hear from Heaven in 2007! My hope is that my prayer life will do what I'm dreaming it's going to do as I reach my goal of Hearing from Heaven in 2007!
Thank you God for the excitement you have put back in my life, as you carried us through 2006 in our ministry my husband and I are in, struggling financially to keep the doors open, and the way you ended our year with great encouragement financially. God is good and still in the Miracle working business so if you would like to read about some miracles take a look at our ministries website Miracles Can Happen Boys Ranch, Inc. Where Miracles are still happening Today!

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Makerere University and the University of Turin in Italy have this year 2017 renewed their longstanding Cooperation Agreement. This re-establishes the importance and usefulness of instituting cultural, scientific and didactic relationships, in order to assert and to consolidate the ties of friendships between the two Institutions and between their countries. As part of that partnership, the present arrangement of cooperation is aimed at contributing to the development of teaching and scientific research in both institutions.

Through the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University, the University of Turin, with support from the Erasmus+ Program of the European Commission, will support a partnership between the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Makerere University and the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at University of Turin in Italy. The partnership seeks to establish didactic-scientific cooperation between the two departments. This initiative intends to train a new generation of high calibre scholars and researchers in the two countries through staff and students exchange.

It is against this background that the College, through the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University, announces the following Fellowships:

  1. Two ten months and fifteen days fellowship for qualifying candidates to complete an ongoing study programme leading to the award of a PhD in Social Anthropology or in Sociology;
  2. Three seven months fulltime fellowships for qualifying candidates to complete an ongoing study programme leading to the award of an M.A. of Makerere University.

Preferably, the PhD fellowships will be awarded to 2 qualifying candidates who have completed fieldwork and in the writing stage of their theses while M.A fellowships will also be preferably awarded to 3candidates who have completed research and are at the final stages of their theses.

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The successful candidates should have excellent oral and written English communication skills. Although the programme is run in English, the candidates may opt to take a short course in Italian language to be able to adapt in the short stay.

Eligible candidates to the PhD/Master Fellowship should:

  • Be a Ugandan national.
  • Be a registered student of Makerere University
  • Be a holder of First Class or Second Upper Class undergraduate degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from a recognised university.
  • Preferably be at the writing stage after completing fieldwork
  • Be fluent or show proof of fluency in English Language, since English Language is the language of instruction and thesis writing at Makerere University.
  • Provide two letters from two academic referees who are familiar with his/her work recommending his/her application. It is important that at least one of the referees should be the applicant’s supervisor.

The Fellowship is fully funded under Erasmus+ program of the European Commission. The financial support from Erasmus+ EU funds for the mobility period is EUR 850,00 per month. In addition, the participant shall receive EUR 820,00 as a contribution for travel. The participant should as a requirement anticipate the cost of roundtrip ticket, visa requirements and a pocket money for the first month in Torino.

The Fellowship is a 10 months and fifteen days doctoral training for PhD fellows which starts in August/September 2018 and terminates in July 2019.

MA students will benefit of a 7-months fellowship from December 2018 to July 2019.  The minimum duration of the mobility period is 3 months or 1 academic term or trimester. The total duration of the mobility period shall not exceed 12 months. In any case, the mobility period shall be concluded within 31/07/2019. Successful candidates will work in the Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University of Turin.

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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Principal’s Office, together with a representative from the Italian Embassy will review the applications for Award.

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I’m not a libertarian, but some of my good friends are and I tend to think that there are lots of really promising areas of agreement with libertarians. The blog Bleeding Heart Libertarians was founded with just that goal in mind: to find the points of agreement between libertarian and progressive goals, and indeed (in my view) to argue for the superiority of libertarian perspectives for addressing some matters of mutual concern.

I often associate this libertarian caution at state over-reach to address the demands of social justice with F. A. Hayek but it’s a broad and puissant tradition in the literature. Basically, it’s entailed by the reality of unintended consequences and the perils of public choice: we don’t always fully know how our efforts will bear fruit and we do know that interested parties are often maneuvering to turn those efforts to their own advantage.

by Matt BorsAn example of a potentially promising direction for BHL is this recent Andrew Cohen post on abolishing state administration of schools. Though public schooling is a progressive shibboleth, I happen to think that that makes it a prime target for ideologically-blinkered reasoning by progressives: John Dewey’s vision of the public school is a far cry from what we’ve actually created (and indeed public schooling has long been a space of indoctrination and the active production of inequality) but through the miracle of equivocation we defend it all the same. Yet Cohen proceeds as if the case of public schooling is insufficiently strong according to his somewhat tendentious definition of the justifications for state action as a remedy for harms. But this seems to take up the weaker argument and ignore the stronger one!

Here’s the kind of argument I’d like to see from BHL:

  • Progressives should recognize that the ideals of public school and the realities are widely divergent. For example, many public schools play a role in the school-to-prison pipeline and other direct harms against–especially–African-Americans. (One can spin many other detailed and nuanced stories of this kind that highlight the harms to the least advantaged, the way some educational experiences actively dissuade intellectual curiosity, encourage students to think of themselves as incapable, or extend state coercion into families but only when those families are poor or non-white, etc.)
  • Public schooling produces much of the real inequality we experience in the world through the production of metrics for merit. Despite the fact that some propagandists for public schooling argued that it would act as a democratic leveler, this claim has been completely disproven by subsequent events.
  • Public schooling supplies an opportunity for the state to directly and actively interfere with children in politically motivated ways, as evidenced by the textbook controversies that come from Texas among many other examples.
  • Whites and the upper-middle class benefit disproportionately from subsidies and school boundary plans that directly and actively exclude non-whites and poor students. The evidence in many cities (including mine) is that private schools are better racially integrated than public ones, both demographically and socially. The evidence here is mixed, though, and worth teasing out: many private schooling options were explicitly designed to perpetuate segregation.
  • Yet even whites recognize that the latest efforts to test and measure the efficacy of public schools have further perverted the actual educational efforts to which schools are supposed to be devoted. Increasingly, schooling is designed to make testable pupils rather than democratic citizens.
  • There is a clear alternative: state management can be abolished while preserving (and indeed equalizing) state funding. From a libertarian’s perspective this may be second-best to purely privatized schooling, but let’s remember those public choice problems, eh?

Now, of course it may be that a well-informed libertarian (and progressives!) would have objections to some of these points. But it seems like the difference between “only remedy harms” and “first, do no harm” is one that should always favor the latter, and I can’t understand why a libertarian would choose the narrower path. I take it that we see this kind of approach in Radley Balko’s work and there’s been much more demand for it as Balko’s case comes to look a lot like those of Black activists and organizers: that’s precisely the kind of coalition I imagined BHL would champion. Of course, as an outsider to BHL it may be that I’m simply not understanding the internal motivations for this particular approach, which seems born of the kind of political philosophy that tries to exclude public choice considerations and empirical data and do its work through deliberately abstruse thought experiments. But I’d argue that both libertarians and progressives should move away from such arguments whenever other opportunities are present.


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