Comments for Artie's Blog http://artie.desirearmed.com A Place for Artie's thoughts. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:55:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 Comment on Back from St. Louis Dream Center by adam http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-95 adam Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:57:22 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-95 you realize that it is july 12th in some parts of the world and the 11th in others and thus we have not drunk a drop of wisdom in almost a fortnight. also, do you read Yeats much, if not I recommend a change you realize that it is july 12th in some parts of the world and the 11th in others and thus we have not drunk a drop of wisdom in almost a fortnight. also, do you read Yeats much, if not I recommend a change

]]> Comment on Back from St. Louis Dream Center by adam http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-94 adam Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:06:55 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-94 i am very glad to hear that, well read that. that's wonderful. i dont know exactly how being a charismatic christian differs from other kinds (or i do and i dont realize it, cause i might have been brought up in that tradition) but i do know that God has never been interested in form, only in substance. and since that is what you are speaking to, the substance, i doubt He could be more pleased, and no doubt different forms exist to suit different people, or, perhaps to show us that entirety, the whole, real truth, real identity, is a union of many and not an infinity of one. im glad those kids have you artie, im sorry, at times, the rest of the world does not. take care i am very glad to hear that, well read that. that’s wonderful.

i dont know exactly how being a charismatic christian differs from other kinds (or i do and i dont realize it, cause i might have been brought up in that tradition) but i do know that God has never been interested in form, only in substance. and since that is what you are speaking to, the substance, i doubt He could be more pleased, and no doubt different forms exist to suit different people,

or, perhaps to show us that entirety, the whole, real truth, real identity, is a union of many and not an infinity of one.

im glad those kids have you artie, im sorry, at times, the rest of the world does not. take care

]]> Comment on Back from St. Louis Dream Center by Justin http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-93 Justin Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:22:25 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-93 It should work with afarve and whatever password you tried to register with. http://www.ardmoreforum.com/justin Got you a story :) It should work with afarve and whatever password you tried to register with.

http://www.ardmoreforum.com/justin

Got you a story :)

]]> Comment on Back from St. Louis Dream Center by Artie http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-92 Artie Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:57:01 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-92 Thanks, B. We sure missed you in St. Louis and we told a lot of Brandon & Brian Benn stories on the way up - the ukalalee story was a crowd favorite. J - Call me when you are well and we will eat taco salad and talk more about the question you knew I'd ask. Also, I don't think my Ardmore Forum account got activated, I'll try again today. My one claim to fame - an national story about my dismal failure with money! Thanks, B. We sure missed you in St. Louis and we told a lot of Brandon & Brian Benn stories on the way up - the ukalalee story was a crowd favorite.

J - Call me when you are well and we will eat taco salad and talk more about the question you knew I’d ask. Also, I don’t think my Ardmore Forum account got activated, I’ll try again today.

My one claim to fame - an national story about my dismal failure with money!

]]> Comment on Back from St. Louis Dream Center by Justin http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-91 Justin Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:05:43 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-91 http://www.google.com/search?q=artie+farve+ardmore Artie you are one famous dude :) http://www.google.com/search?q=artie+farve+ardmore

Artie you are one famous dude :)

]]> Comment on Back from St. Louis Dream Center by Brandon http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-90 Brandon Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:01:09 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-90 This is a great post. Very real and honest. There are lots of parallels to my life in this post and it has spurred on some thinking. Thanks. This is a great post. Very real and honest.

There are lots of parallels to my life in this post and it has spurred on some thinking.

Thanks.

]]> Comment on Back from St. Louis Dream Center by Justin http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-89 Justin Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:47:13 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=28#comment-89 Last night I was thinking about you and what you would ask me when we had lunch again. I knew you would ask me where my faith lay now. This post explains some about how I feel with my spirituality. I have just come to accept whatever I believed before and not cared about a lot of things. I have lost most of my joy in seeking. To be brutally honest, I don't have a will to try to fix any of that right now. I feel like I'm working on fixing my physical life and in a transition period where I'm about to be doing a lot of new things with my life, and that I'll have to focus on my spirituality later. I know people would say aren't those two lives the same or interleaved? I just don't feel like that right now, I guess it comes from my matter of fact mentality, and that everyday physics always happen, that obstacles of life can be fairly accurately factored in and estimated in outcome. That statistical analysis works. Anyhow we'll need to get lunch soon :) Not today though for sure I've been coming down with some kind of sickness. Last night I was thinking about you and what you would ask me when we had lunch again.

I knew you would ask me where my faith lay now. This post explains some about how I feel with my spirituality. I have just come to accept whatever I believed before and not cared about a lot of things. I have lost most of my joy in seeking.

To be brutally honest, I don’t have a will to try to fix any of that right now. I feel like I’m working on fixing my physical life and in a transition period where I’m about to be doing a lot of new things with my life, and that I’ll have to focus on my spirituality later.

I know people would say aren’t those two lives the same or interleaved? I just don’t feel like that right now, I guess it comes from my matter of fact mentality, and that everyday physics always happen, that obstacles of life can be fairly accurately factored in and estimated in outcome. That statistical analysis works.

Anyhow we’ll need to get lunch soon :) Not today though for sure I’ve been coming down with some kind of sickness.

]]> Comment on Optimistically Groping in the Dark by adam http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=14#comment-68 adam Sat, 12 May 2007 00:53:40 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=14#comment-68 what are God's dreams? what are God’s dreams?

]]> Comment on Optimistically Groping in the Dark by Artie http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=14#comment-61 Artie Thu, 10 May 2007 03:13:48 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=14#comment-61 Both, sort of. I do not have hope in what man could be, I think that what man could be, he is; and this is not hopeful. But I have hope in God's progressive restoration through redemption in Christ. I also have hope in what I see because the concept of "man" is not generic for me. I have witnessed people - weak, broken and redeemed - learn to love beyond their prejudice. I have seen individuals cared for and consequently changed and I have been the recipient of such love and care. So much of what I see in the present gives me reason to be optimistic (not everything, but many things). My hope rests most of all because I have been given the grace to let go of my cynicism and begin to dream God's dreams again. I pray the same for all of you. Both, sort of. I do not have hope in what man could be, I think that what man could be, he is; and this is not hopeful. But I have hope in God’s progressive restoration through redemption in Christ. I also have hope in what I see because the concept of “man” is not generic for me. I have witnessed people - weak, broken and redeemed - learn to love beyond their prejudice. I have seen individuals cared for and consequently changed and I have been the recipient of such love and care. So much of what I see in the present gives me reason to be optimistic (not everything, but many things). My hope rests most of all because I have been given the grace to let go of my cynicism and begin to dream God’s dreams again. I pray the same for all of you.

]]> Comment on Optimistically Groping in the Dark by adam http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=14#comment-60 adam Thu, 10 May 2007 00:17:34 +0000 http://artie.desirearmed.com/?p=14#comment-60 question. are you optimistic about what is present or about potential? to put it another way do you look at man and see something that gives you hope or are you looking at what man could be and seeing a hope beyond him? question.

are you optimistic about what is present or about potential?

to put it another way do you look at man and see something that gives you hope or are you looking at what man could be and seeing a hope beyond him?

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