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Re: maybe linford would say...?(was Narnia books/Lewis quotes-kindalong)
- Subject: Re: maybe linford would say...?(was Narnia books/Lewis quotes-kindalong)
- From: John Paul Davis <johnd at antioch-college_edu>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 10:54:38 -0500
- Cc: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
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J. Marie Hall wrote:
>
> my pastor corrected me very quickly one day when he
> was asking questions about my heart towards the
> creative things i do. he wanted to know why i wrote
> poetry or wrote anything for that matter. why i play
> music or would want to. the obvious answer was "to
> glorify god." and he said, "no, not directly." you
> do it b/c you have to. b/c there is something inside
> of you that needs to pass through you. that it is
> more honoring to god to submit to what we were created
> for and let him use us as an honest and natural
> vehicle for the wonderful things he has left in that
> left-over breath.
Interesting stuff: therefore, drawing breath is glorifying God.
- John
np : Honest With Me - Bob Dylan
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John Paul Davis
Center for Community Learning
Antioch College
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Ned Flanders: Let's just agree to disagree
Principal Skinner: I don't agree to that
Mrs. Krabapple: Me neither
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