Saturday is coming to life now, light, 80F and 85%, but below was the view from 7H just after four o'clock this morning, lights from Courtney Point west along Magnolia Beach, moon high, Saturn following along behind. The news from Joy Thompson looks good beyond all our fears a few weeks ago,  my sister Gina with Joseph at their regular summer Carolina lake cottage visit, their making of memories resuming; may the Lord continue to lift up the light of his countenance upon you.  ++++++++++++ Thinking of Sunday School tomorrow, summers we continue albeit informal and my free, loose and easy preparations always subject to setting aside if/when anyone comes with something they'd like to talk about. From the lectionary, two possible first readings are below and I may comment slightly on each, but when class opens, if they want to talk about General Convention of the Episcopal Church, to be held in Austin, Texas starting this week and going through Friday, July 1...

A memorable week. Yesterday, Thursday, June 28, 2018, at Holy Nativity, the Altar, Judith and my brother Walt, high school sweethearts, both widowed, were, Linda and I witnessing, united in Holy Matrimony and began married life in thanksgiving and sharing with God in Holy Communion.  So happy am I for them, overwhelmingly so for my brother of course, and for Judy being with him. I think they had this in mind in the 1950s. May they live a hundred twenty years, and let all the people say, "AMEN!" And sixty one years ago today, June 29, 1957, Linda and I were married at Holy Nativity, the day set in my memories. After our week's honeymoon at the beach in a cottage loaned to us by old friend Katherine Laughlin, Linda took me to the airport and I flew off to Newport, Rhode Island in what as I recall was a Lockheed Constellation, to begin what we did not at the time realize would begin a 20-year Navy life for us. By then I had tossed the idea of going to seminary and...

Gift Affidavit To: Advantage Apartments 7150 W. Hwy 98 Panama City Beach, Florida 32407 In re: Kristen E. Kelly This is to certify that we gift our daughter/granddaughter Kristen E. Kelly $250 per month, monthly and will continue to do so permanently or for the next twelve months. Sincerely, Thomas C. Weller                                   Linda P. Weller June 28, 2018                                          June 28, 2018

Comes most every morning in my email Delanceyplace.com, an interesting excerpt from a writing. This morning (scroll down, copy and paste) it's about the introduction into England of the English language Bible and its ignition of cultural as well as religious reformation that flows out to the English-speaking world.  To me personally, a significant line in the excerpt is "The English Bible also helped to fashion a language of devotion," which calls back to my mind the liturgical movement of the mid-to-late 20th century, which tossed my own devotional language that was the center of my spirituality, Cranmer's  Book of Common Prayer . It was to me a traumatic period in life of feeling brutalized in the Episcopal Church by a fiercely determined "progressive" movement that, over the years of successive General Conventions, I had watched brush aside tradition as they gained more and more votes to take control. An experiential education in the workings of ...

Watching from 7H, it's ding nigh impossible to ignore clouds trying to cover the rising or setting moon, here sliding toward the sea at 6:30 this morning, one of many wonders of our retirement home.  Graduation last evening, commencement of new life as Ryan Nelson was awarded his certificate from the GCSC Law Enforcement Academy. by Mr. Greg May, Chair of Public Safety and Dr. John Holdnak, President of Gulf Coast State College. Ryan to me may always be the two year old boy who used to break loose from his mother during the closing hymn at Grace Episcopal Church, PCB in 2000 and 2001, run down the aisle and leap into my arms. But to the world now he's Deputy Sheriff Nelson, BCSO.  When we arrived at the college for the graduation ceremony last evening and Ryan came over to greet us, I told him, "Linda made me move the car out of an illegal space just now so you wouldn't ticket me," and he said, "It could happen!" Ryan!! It's me! Fa...

It's best, right and good to have someone to share life with: "Come on out, I want you to see the moon."  Saturn high, brilliant. Good breeze makes it comfortable to stay out here on the porch. Mars. Lightning in clouds to the east and south beyond Tyndall, making me want to be in Apalachicola this morning, on the river and bay. Voices from the shore edge seven stories down.  Life slowly seeming to return to normal and, looking back, Frost's two roads in mind, most thankful for where we are.  Malinda doing astonishingly well, five of us here at 7H yesterday for her birthday lunch. We are fortunate, blessed, grateful to live in this Time. Joseph, from Joy last evening:  Joy Thompson ( 8 hrs ago) ·  Last day of inpatient therapy. Had a full day of family meeting and discharge Instruction and therapies.... "graduation" set for tomorrow. Will start Sheperd Pathways day program Wednesday .. had a wonderful home cooked dinner at Mark Jensen home with...

Exactly six months from Christmas either way, today is Malinda's birthday: June 25, 1958, she is sixty, my daughter is sixty years old. Lots of things come to mind. One is that our home in Northern Virginia (the second time I was stationed in Washington DC) had a swimming pool, 38x15, kidney shaped, outside the lower, ground level of the house, walkout onto the patio overlooking a steep hill sloping down into thick woods with a creek running through it. After heavy rains and thunderous rushing waters in the creek, we could work our way into the woods, through the poison ivy to the creek, and in the sandy creek pick up bullets from the Civil War era but not necessarily battle, likely hunters' bullets. I gave the last of them to Joe years ago. But this is about Malinda and the swimming pool, and I digress. First, when we bought the house we were moving to Washington from Ohio, where Tass was born. I'll come back to that. I flew from Columbus to Washington National Airport, ...

Mark 4:35-41 When evening had come, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Σιώπα πεφίμωσο (Peace! Be still!). Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” ++++++++++++++ Σιώπα πεφίμωσο “Silence! Peace! Be still!” and it was so. I shall speak of it. You may be seated. +++++++++++ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was w...

Neither a soccer fan nor expert, I watched Germany v Sweden yesterday, Toni Kroos scoring on a free kick to win it 2 - 1 after 90 minutes, to me a loss as I am for whoever is playing Germany, not sports but politics and lifelong memories of a national personality. Elsewhere, Suisse 2, Serbia 1, someone* speaking for Bosnia, Serbia or Albania said "You should never mix football and politics" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44586587  but WTH, we mix politics and religion, so also politics and sports as two ethnic Albanian Kosovan players scored for Switzerland.  Still elsewhere, news from Atlanta is hopeful and good for Joseph as he continues to improve and impress.  Σιώπα πεφίμωσο, Peace! Be still! and the wind dies down, and the sea goes calm. Who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him?  Back to 7H, ringing my cellphone yesterday, two calls from the same number in - - Iran? Ignore, erase; after the second call, block. T  * Well, it...

Joy Thompson added 5 new photos. 11 hrs ·  We graduated to the ADL (everyday living suite) and then got checked off to get passes off campus... then a special treat a teen fashion show done by current and former patients.. Joseph almost got in the show but the last slots had just got filled prior to his arrival

Looking at the gospel lesson for tomorrow - - as I must do because I will be in Chipley as supply priest, preacher and celebrant at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church - - doing requisite study, I notice, maybe for the first time, maybe not, I don't remember, something that challenges my view of Mark's christology, either the christology of Mark himself or the christology of the early church tampering with Mark's work (but I don't think so, because this story fits precisely in Mark's agenda and his overall scheme of things).  Over against the canonical Gospel according to John, where the author's high christology is clear from chapter one, verse one - - even if the prologue is a later addition as some scholars hold - - and its intentional relationship to Genesis chapter one,  "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and RUACH, the Spirit, Wind, Breath...