Traveling Anne

Anne Lamott is coming to town in April. (More here.)

If you are not familiar with her, pick up Traveling Mercies.

Tickets are $20 (and up) and they benefit a great ministry, Lord of the Streets.

"We All Want To Change The World"

A new website named Change launched this morning. It was created to bring people and causes together.

One of the cool features lets you search for volunteer opportunities by zip code. It is under the Actions tab. However, when I entered mine (77581) and central Houston (77001)it is a bit sparse. As of this post there are three opportunities to save baby seals, wolves or stop the killing of whales. Not that those aren't worthy causes...but hopefully that will change soon. It is the first day, after all.

It definitely has potential.

More on Life After Death

From Russell's Teapot...


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Jesus Loves Osama

Have you heard about the church in Australia? Here is their church sign.


On the bottom of the sign is the verse Matthew 5:44

...Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you...

Try putting that on your sign.

I'm all for supporting our troops and offering prayers for their safety. But if we are followers of the Way, and our faith is more than lip service, why don't we pray for Osama, too? (Which, if that was all there was to it, might not be so difficult.)

How do we love him? How do we stretch out our lives beyond ourselves like Jesus did? I don't know. I'm not the best at loving fully those who love me, let alone those who do not.

I do know I have not heard one prayer (or myself - said one) for him.