Keith and I met Margaret Feinberg about 2 years ago at Irving Bible Church where she was the guest speaker for young adults.During her presentation a video clip was shown in which Keith and two others had been previously interviewed by the Bible Communities pastor.Keith must have made some comment about his blog during the interview because Margaret was fascinated by the number of people who visit this blog daily.After the presentation Keith and I visited with Margaret and found it very easy to talk to her.In fact, I took my glass eye out for her to see!I never do that to strangers!As the evening came to an end we bought a few of her books and thanked her for coming—not thinking we would continue to have her in our lives.A year later Margaret came back to IBC for the FUSION conference.She first spoke in a large group then held a breakout session that Keith and I attended.This time I had to take my eye out for her husband!Since then Margaret checks out Keith’s blog from time to time as we do to her blog.About 2 weeks ago she emailed Keith and asked him if he would be interested in reading her new book, The Sacred Echo, and then blogging about it.Keith is not much of a reader so I will be a guest writer on his blog for a few weeks as I read the book.At the back of the book is a “Reflections†section in which the reader can reflect on the chapter just read through questions and scripture.I will be keeping a journal with my answers to these questions, but will just share a concept, phrase, or story from the chapter that was most meaningful to me on the blog.Hopefully, my comments will intrigue you to read the book.
Margaret writes this book to share her “sacred echoes†with us.What are sacred echoes?Margaret describes it as “the persistent voice of God.â€For example, haven’t you ever wondered if God is speaking to you during a sermon or song or if it’s just your emotions?I know I have.That is where the sacred echoes come into play.Feinberg writes, “The repetitive nature of a sacred echo gives me confidence that God is really prompting, guiding, or leading.It reminds me to pay close attention; something important may be going on here.The sacred echo challenges me to prayerfully consider how God is at work in my own life as well as the lives of those around me.The sacred echo is an invitation to spiritual awakening.â€I pray that I as I read this book I will begin to hear the “sacred echoes†in my life.
Here is a statement that really stood out to me in the chapter titled, “Exposedâ€.
â€I want a relationship with God where prayer is as natural as breathing.If God is the one in whom we are to live and move and have our being, then I want my every inhale infused with his presence, my every exhale an extension of his love.â€
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GRANADA HILLS — The dog left on the doorstep of the southern California pet clinic was sick. The letter left with him was heartbreaking.
“Dear Drs., please forgive me for this horrible transgression. I have no where else to turn so I ask you to mercifully, gently and lovingly please help him sleep. His name is Kaiser and he’s 16-and-a half years old. He’s been my friend, my teacher, my pupil, my lifelong loving and loyal companion,” the letter said.
On the envelope, the author of the letter said that he thought Kaiser had two strokes the night before.
“Be good to him as you would your own child, for he’s been mine for a loving lifetime,” the envelope read.
Inside, the writer continued to pour his heart out.
WASHINGTON — Americans love their cars, and so apparently does Uncle Sam. He’s got 642,233 of them.
Operating those vehicles — maintenance, leases and fuel — cost taxpayers a whopping $3.4 billion last year, according to General Services Administration data obtained and analyzed by the Associated Press.
While Cabinet and other officials say they need the vehicles to do their jobs, watchdogs say mismanagement of the fleet is costing millions of dollars a year in wasteful spending.
A German medical team has released pictures of what it called the world’s first successful double arm transplant on a man who lost both limbs in a farming accident.
The male patient, 54, was “doing well under the circumstances” after the 15-hour operation last month, said Dr Christoph Hoehnke, one of the lead surgeons at the Isar clinic in Munich.
Dr Hoehnke told reporters he was deeply moved as the wife of the amputee – his name is being withheld – went to his bedside after the operation and instinctively reached for his hands.
He said that she remarked: “They look just like they used to”.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he’s too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
Lawyers for Richard Cooey argue in a federal lawsuit that Cooey — 5-feet-7 and 267 pounds — had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and the problem has been worsened by weight gain.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, also says prison officials have had difficulty drawing blood from Cooey for medical procedures.
Cooey, 41, is sentenced to die for raping and murdering two young women in 1986. His execution is scheduled for October 14.
His attorneys say a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could affect the execution process. The drug Topamax, a type of seizure medication, may have created a resistance to thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep before two other lethal drugs are administered, Dr. Mark Heath, a physician hired by the Ohio Public Defender’s Office, said in documents filed with the court.
Heath says Cooey’s weight, combined with the potential drug resistance, increases the risk he would not be properly anesthetized.
“All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn’t work, the execution is going to be excruciating,” Cooey’s public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday.
August 01/08:The total eclipse of the Sun, seen over the Canadian Arctic, August 1, 2008. Photographed from altitude of 27,000 feet from a location 140 km east of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
Finding a seat in a subway car during rush hour is about to get more difficult.
New York City Transit officials are planning to roll out a pilot program featuring a train with flip-up seats in four of 10 cars. The seats will be locked in the up position during rush hour.
