CHRIST
IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter…
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There was an internet quiz
recently designed to tell us what profession we should practice, or should have
practiced. Minister was not one of the possibilities.
Rabbi was on the list, but
not minister.
They also had poet, song
writer, golfer, both football player and coach, meteorologist, stunt man,
interior designer, judge, fitness instructor, guitarist, drummer, race car
driver, poet, and photographer, all with fewer practitioners than clergy.
If you live in a
clergy-saturated world, it never occurs to you how most of the world doesn’t
even consider the possibility of your existence.
John
Robert McFarland
johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com
The
“place of winter” mentioned in the title line is Iron Mountain, in Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula [The UP], where life is defined by winter even in the summer!
[This phrase is explained in the post for March 20, 2014.]
I
used to keep a careful index of all the things I told in this blog so that I
would not repeat. That has become unwieldy. Now I just trust to… what’s it
called… oh, yes, memory. Sorry about repeats.
I
have also started an author blog, JUST WORDS, about writing and reading.
Writing guru Kristen Lamb says author blogs are counter-productive, that blogs
must be “high concept.” I don’t know what that means, but consider Just Words
as a high concept blog in preparation for the publication, by Black Opal Books,
of my novel, VETS, about four
handicapped and homeless Iraqistan veterans who are accused of murdering a VA
doctor, in 2015. http://johnrobertmcfarland-author.blogspot.com/
I
tweet as yooper1721.
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