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Pictures at an Exhibition
Lisa, Jack, Kate, and I went and saw the Pacific Symphony at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall do a fantastic musical program for kids. This show was really one of the best, it included lots of tunes, the kids art was displayed, the questions were for the trumpet, the kids got to make…
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Something
1. Have something to do.2. Stay busy and focused when I am not sure.3. There is a first time for everything after that it gets confusing.4. Confusion is not something to be feared.5. Relax and take it easy.6. Make things easy.
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Smoking Aces
Went with Jason and Eric to the Spectrum last night–we were going to see Epic Movie, but it looked like it was going to suck. Smoking Aces was an FBI vs. Mob shoot ’em up–it pretended to be more complicated then it was. But the insane Hit Men were great. There were some classic mob…
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St. John Climacus
Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being afraid of our enemies. Though unseen themselves, they can look at the face of our soul, and if they see it altered by fear, they take up arms against us all the more fiercely. For the cunning creatures have observed that we…
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Aum
1. Aum2. Peace3. Patience4. Observe5. Reflect6. Comprehend7. Share8. Rehearsal9. Grow10. Love
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30 Rungs to Spiritual Growth
1. On renunciation of the world 2. On detachment 3. On exile or pilgrimage; concerning dreams that beginners have 4. On blessed and ever-memorable obedience (in addition to episodes involving many individuals) 5. On painstaking and true repentance which constitutes the life of the holy convicts; and about the Prison 6. On remembrance of death…
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Saint Germanos, Patriarch of Constantinople, 715-730
When we look on an icon of a saint–and this is true for every icon of a saint–we venerate not the panel or the paint but the pious and visible figure.
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Colossians 2, 8
See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world 3 and not according to Christ.
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St. Justin Popovich
In Christianity truth is not a philosophical concept nor is it a theory, a teaching, or a system, but rather, it is the living theanthropic hypostasis – the historical Jesus Christ (John 14:6). Before Christ men could only conjecture about the Truth since they did not possess it. With Christ as the incarnate divine Logos…
David Given Schwarm
Married, Father, United
David Given Schwarm 