Entries from April 2006

Raincoats and losing bravado

Date April 26, 2006

Robin gently called me out for lack of blogging in a comment, so I figured that maybe I ought to say what’s going on.
Once I was full of bravado
Now I’m incommunicado
afraid to be bold
afraid of the scold
If I flash like AJ foretold
(I’m at our Yearly Meeting’s pastor’s conference this week. Very refreshing, lots of stuff [...]

On this day…

Date April 18, 2006

Today, I received the traditional bag of “Chips Ahoy” cookies from my friend Jim. Thanks, Jim!
A year ago today, I thought I was quite creative and funny.
Five years ago today, my grandpa died.
Twenty years ago today, I sprained my ankle badly in a game against Rex Putnam (but I got the guy out.)
Twenty five years [...]

Easter People in a Good Friday World

Date April 16, 2006

Good Easter worship today! Here’s what I shared from John 20…WARNING: scary 20 year old pictures enclosed!

Hot woman in the tulip field!

Date April 14, 2006

Hot woman in the tulip field!

Originally uploaded by gkoskela.

Hot woman in the tulip field!

Join the Failure Club

Date April 10, 2006

I’ve been thinking about yesterday’s meetings for worship most of the day, and I’m still not sure I am clear about what it was all about.
The first two services, we had good sharing in open worship, and I shared this message from John 18 on Peter’s denial. But I don’t know quite how to describe [...]

Pretty good…

Date April 8, 2006

I had fun tonight.
Loyal blog readers will remember a movie I saw back in September, “Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.” It spawned this review. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon delivered the newly released DVD to my door, and tonight, I hosted a viewing of it. 26 of us watched the movie and talked about [...]

Failure

Date April 7, 2006

This coming Sunday, we’ll be looking at Peter’s denials of Jesus, specifically as outlined in John 18. It’s a record of extreme failure. I’ve found myself with a lot of energy as I’ve realized Peter was trying to do the right thing. He wasn’t just an idiot. I used to think that. I mean, come [...]

Louisiana 46

Date April 6, 2006

Louisiana 46

Originally uploaded by gkoskela.

Louisiana 46

Practical Gardening

Date April 5, 2006

My flood of blogging has truly been great, hasn’t it?
Here’s what I shared last week from John 15. Maybe tomorrow, my day off, will be a blog day. But no promises, given my recent track record!