"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Some Thoughts and Bar Church...

"Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them."
~ Jesus (John 7:37b-38)

Michelle Singing...



Well I haven’t blogged for awhile, have been busy with life – reading some, working ambulance shifts, making a few trips back and forth between Minneapolis and Two Harbors and hanging out with the girls and Cade.

As far as reading goes over the last few weeks I have read, Not the Religious Type: Confessions of a Turncoat Atheist, by David Schmelzer, The Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard and Life Together, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer – all great books!

This past Sunday was the first Bar Church Gathering at Dunnigan’s Pub in Two Harbors and it went very well! Inspiring music, community, talk about the true thirst quencher, sharing of stories of life, coffee, donuts, food, drinks. The Kingdom of God breaking through!

Michelle Jordy sang and played guitar and shared some of her journey with everyone…we will all miss her as she is leaving this Friday to move to Atlanta to minister to the homeless and drug addicts and do street ministry.

One of the barishioners wrote this on her Facebook after the gathering,

“They open (Dunnigan’s) at 11 for church. It was a great service too. Mostly it is a good place to sit back and meet new people and kind of find yourself again. It’s not traditional, its not judgmental, but more a relaxing and accepting community of people that would normally not be together sharing their lives and helping each other. Overall, this was the best Sunday morning in a very long time for me.”

All that were there thought everything went very well and we are going to keep meeting on Sundays and continue to see and experience what God is and will continue to do.

More stories will be coming soon…hopefully…


Here are some of the barishoners hanging out after the gathering...

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