Glad to see you finally got to go home Grandma. I know you are smiling down on us with Daryl, Rodlyn, Alfred, and Elmer. We will miss you. Love your grandson.
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Politics and elections seem to be all that are in the news these days. Everyone seems to have an idea of what their government should do for them and how the government needs to fix things. While I think we need to take a stand for issues in our country, when do we stop looking to the government to fix things and step up and do something? This is true in the church as well. Looking back at the churches I’ve attended I can recall many times of passing around petitions to stand against the government. When are we going to stop telling the world all the things the church stands against and instead tell everyone about the love, grace, and mercy of Jesus. I could ramble on for awhile about this topic, but instead I thought I would insert a section from The Voice Project’s John, written and translated by Chris Seay. The section I am including isn’t a translation or paraphrased section from John, but is the author, speaking in first person as the disciple John. It is written following Jesus telling His disciples about the Holy Spirit coming as a helper in John 15. Click Here to find out more about these books.
“As Jesus warns us of the mistreatment we can expect, He disarms our fears by reminding us of the most important things. If the Spirit is in us, we have no reason to fear. In fact, the church will thrive under persecution. Yet, we are obsessed with power and political prominence as a means to influence the culture. As Christian citizens, we have an obligation to actively strive for justice and freedom. But how will that happen? Listen carefully, for this is the wisdom God has given to each generation. Lasting justice and morality cannot be lobbied for or legislated. It is a result of the Holy Spirit’s work in the lives of those of us who learn that God loves us. So take heed, lest we forget these import labors are always secondary to the gospel and at times even affect the cause of the Liberating King negatively. True Christianity, the real work of the Kingdom, often thrives under fierce attack and opposition. Jesus announced this coming persecution to us, His followers, believing this will lead to our finest hour.”
I hope you caught that.
So yesterday we got a chance to go Skeet Shooting. I gotta say that I really miss shooting things. Reminded me of the good ole days of shooting cans and such with my Dad on the farm. While I have done my share of target practice before, I had never tried to shoot a flying object before. After some early frustration I finally “got it” and started to hit skeets. Dawn also grew up doing her share of target shooting in NWT in scouts. She took hold of the gun like an old pro. I think I’ll have to be abit more careful now that I don’t cross her.
I think this might have re-sparked my love of guns I had at an early age. In fact, just last year I donated my childhood gun, complete with scope, to Ranger Lake Bible Camp. While that gun was only the typical BB/Pellet Gun, I sure have alot of found memories with it. If it wasn’t for the sweet gun control act I would find myself doing this alot more. If anyone else happens to be doing this I would gladly fire off some of your rounds.
I have been meaning to write something on here for quite a few days. I had a few different post ideas ready to go. However, for some reason I just couldn’t bring myself to organize my thoughts well enough to post on any of the topics I had come up with. Therefore you are left with this….. a collection of websites, blogs and links that I have been visiting lately that I thought you might be interested in.
Relevant Magazine – This one goes without saying that if you haven’t checked this magazine out then stop reading this blog right now…. wait don’t listen to that…. goto it after you’ve finished read this post
Tech Talk – Okay this is shameless self promotion, but really if you need some good tips for using that new mac you just bought, this is a pretty good start.
Plumb – While this website isn’t the best, it is a pretty well put together Christian Arts Journal. I’m actually hoping to get some of my work published in it. You can download pdf’s of back issues which is probably the best part of the whole site.
Kiva – Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. I plan to make this part of the next project for Poetic Industries.
nakedpastor – Okay, this isn’t what it sounds like. Just a great bunch of reading and art and comics about life as a pastor and follower of Jesus.
Toms Shoes – Every pair of shoes you buy, the company will give a pair of shoes to a child in need.
What sites do you visit? I would love to know the sites my small group of readers goto regularly or that they think I would find interesting? I’ll post more next time as this list doesn’t include many of my regular sites, but is more of those sites which I truly love and inspire me.
Joyce is the girl that Poetic Industries is sponsoring from Watoto Project. We finally received info from Watoto recently on the child we are sponsoring. Joyce needs your help. Joyce is 12 years old, who wants to be a teacher some day. She loves to sing and play games. As some of you know earlier this year, Poetic Industries, decided to take action and do something for those less fortunate in Africa. We began a campaign to sell Tshirts under the Poetic Industries brand and to give the proceeds to Watoto. By buying a T-shirt you are helping to pay for close to 1 months worth of sponsorship. While quite a few shirts have been sold and I can say that 100% of the proceeds from sales are now being donated as the cost of the shirts have been covered. If you would like to help Joyce by buying a shirt, please email poeticindustries AT mac DOT com.
Take a look at the Poetic Industry Page for new designs.
Thanks to Dan King over at DoYouthinkIT’LLfly? for this great post.You just plug your website into this new program called Wordle. It turns any document or website into a word image pulling out the most used words. And the image here is what came out for Terribly Poetic. I find it interesting to see what I write about the most here. Let me know what you think? And I would love to see what other people create for there site. You can feel free to comment with your picture on this post or just send a link to your image. You’ll wanna click read more below to see the image in a larger version.
Hi everyone, just a quick bit of housekeeping. Could everyone that has a link to this blog please update the beginning of it to web.me.com instead of web.mac.com Therefore the full link to this blog should be http://web.me.com/dgrunau/Daryl_Grunau/Blog/Blog.html
I have updated the domain daryl.yfcsask.com to link to the above link. It seems this change helps the comments to work. If you are visiting the old web.mac.com site and you try to add a comment it most likely won’t work.
Thanks
So I finally got tired of all the cables behind my monitor and desk collecting dust and I decided to do something about it. After seeing a few articles on Lifehacker regarding sweet office setups I decided it was my turn to begin to transform my office into the ultimate workstation. Cable management was top priority on hacking my office part one. I was lucky enough to have this kitchen cabinet left over from a house reno a year ago. After drilling a few holes to allow cables through and zip tying a few power strips onto the back I was set. I plan to add a USB hub to allow more peripherals to be hooked up, however, right now I have 3 Firewire HDs, a Blue Snowball mic and an extra USB for hooking up cameras, etc. The large stainless steel handle also made a great spot to hang my headphones. To have a closer look you will have to click on read more to see the rest of the pics.
Now its on to part two….. hmmmm
Hey everyone, I’m Famous! Er, maybe by everyone I should say, “attention all geeks,” either way I am famous. Thanks to Greg Benson, my counterpart on our tech blog for forwarding me to this article on the popular site of Macworld, which tokens me for my “Firefox 3 and iweb fix” which I posted awhile ago. Seems the techie world took notice and I got my name and a link to Terribly Poetic on MACWORLD! I can’t believe, and if you don’t either, just click through and read the article. Albeit, the article probably won’t mean anything to 99% of you, but either way you can see for yourself that I am on Macworld site. Is this my 15 minutes or just the beginning? Next stop Macworld magazine cover!