Busy Bear: Bible, Cat Window, String Cheese
Earth Mystic (Carl McColman) and I are planning to read through The New Jerusalem Bible, beginning January 1, 2006. Carl does a great job of outlining our intentions at his blog (click here for his entry about it), so I won’t repeat it all here. We plan to invite others to join us, so we’ll be setting up a Yahoo group so we can discuss the readings and share with each other via email. I've wanted to read The New Jerusalem Bible because of its literary beauty ( J.R.R. Tolkien was a contributing translator and lexicographer of the original English edition) and because it contains the whole Bible, including the books Martin Luther ripped out and which do not appear in Protestant Bibles. The reading plan we’re using is very simple; it will take about 20 minutes a day to read two passages, one from the Hebrew Scriptures (“Old Testament”) and one from the Christian Scriptures (“New Testament”). If you’d like to join us but want to use another translation, please feel free to do so. Diversity is good! I’ll post the link here when we set up the Yahoo group.
[Addendum: The Yahoo group, named Lectio Divina, is now online. Feel free to join us!]
Click to join lectiodivina
On the home front, Kato the Gnostic Cat and I will be moving into our new apartment the weekend of November 4th. It’s in a pet-friendly apartment complex, and the apartment we’ll be living in is on the edge of the complex, next to the woods where Kato can go hunting. There’s a good buffer of woods between the apartment and the main road, so I feel OK about letting Kato go in and out as he pleases. I’ve already splurged on a fancy Window Cat Door for Kato to use at the new place.
The new apartment is on the back side of Little Kennesaw Mountain (pictured above as seen from Big Kennesaw Mountain), very convenient to the hiking trails. It’s also close to Marietta Square. I’ve written here before about how much I love living close to the Square.
My friend Donnie and I are going up to Asheville this weekend, for the organizational meeting of a new interfaith initiative called Universal Awakening. We'll be leaving the meeting a little early, to come back to Atlanta Saturday night to see The String Cheese Incident at the Fox Theatre.
Darrell
www.WildFaith.com
posted by Darrell Grizzle | 10:46 AM
8 Comments:
Enjoy STI! Let us know how it goes!
My pastor was just using the NJB this morning. I'll have to check it out...
Do you live near dollar bay?
Aries Sun: I'm not sure -- what is dollar bay?
Congrats on the new pad...and the view, and the trails, and the square...wow, sounds really great.
Have fun in Asheville- I just returned from Hot Springs and Black Mountian (Swannanoa, actually.) Would love to hear more about "Univeral Awakening" when you get a chance...and...
..if you're going to see Joan Baez on 11-6 at the Variety Playhouse, I'll be there too and would love to meet you in person.
We just set up the Yahoo group for our plan to read through the NJB in 2006, so please join us:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lectiodivina/
Trev, I'm glad to hear about your pastor using the NJB. You're United Methodist, right? The NJB is already widely accepted in Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches, and I'm glad to hear of it being used in at least some Protestant churches.
Isaiah: Joan Baez in concert sounds great! And the Variety Playhouse in Little Five Points is a fantastic venue. That's the weekend I'm moving, though, so I don't know if I'll be completely done with everything or if I'll be exhausted by Sunday night. If I do decide to go, I'll let you know!
I like both the New Jerusalem Bible and the Oxford Edition myself...
I'm really excited for you - the location of your new apartment will be fantastic. Tell when you're settled in - and if you need a break, you know where I live - or at least the nearest coffee place, which is nearly the same thing. Hugs.
What a beautiful mountain top!! Growing up here in Colorado I have always found great spiritual support and lessons in the mountains. I'll have to check out the NJB
I've always loved mountains, too. When I lived in Oklahoma for two years (many many years ago) I was always uncomfortable at how flat it was.
I love the mountains of North Georgia and the Carolinas, but Kennesaw Mountain and Little Kennesaw Mountain are "my" mountains. I see them every morning on my way to work, and over the years I've spent many hours hiking the trails at Kennesaw Mountain National Park -- something I plan to do even more of, now that I'll be living even closer to them.
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