Comments on: Pass the Potatoes http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/ uncovering life's layers, exploring truth's terrain... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:47:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: jen lemen http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1066 Tue, 07 Jun 2005 23:19:39 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1066 this rings true for me. to me it feels like the echoes of feminine or goddess spirituality though i hate to quantify it and god knows there is a fundamentalist for every flavor of religion. let's hope it's enough to love well and live in full awareness of our tiny, simple lives. love to you. this rings true for me.
to me it feels like the echoes of feminine or goddess spirituality though i hate to quantify it and god knows there is a fundamentalist for every flavor of religion. let’s hope it’s enough to love well and live in full awareness of our tiny, simple lives.

love to you.

]]> by: Erdman http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1065 Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:05:54 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1065 Kristin, I really like what you're saying here, and resonate with it. And yes, you were right about the link to your own post abour "roaring" and the linkage to something I wrote recently. Kristin, I really like what you’re saying here, and resonate with it. And yes, you were right about the link to your own post abour “roaring” and the linkage to something I wrote recently.

]]> by: John Sloas http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1064 Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:54:15 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1064 Kristin, Thank you. I'm longing for much of what I hear in your words. Be well. Kristin,
Thank you. I’m longing for much of what I hear in your words. Be well.

]]> by: Paul http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1063 Tue, 31 May 2005 07:40:30 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1063 beauty and wisdom often walk hand in hand and the most powerful expressions of their joint creation seem to be both the most simpliest and yet the deepest of thoughts/statements/reflections... It's something of the postmodern dilema that we now live in a different world order of experiencing belief. 20 years ago when I became a christian I was taught: # here are a set of beliefs you must hold/accept as a christian; # now do christian things; #finally feel like a christian. That train is now reversed I think more and more with people starting off feeling [this feels good] than doing the practices and finally coming to/forming beliefs... It is a fundamental shift away from the head - believe this or the doing first and focuses as you do on the feelings... this is the feeling, the itch that needs to be scratched - peace, simplicity, connection, realism - it is why for me my heart reacts with delight when I read Paul's words in the Message translation about Jesus... "...He was supreme in the beginning and--leading the resurrection parade--he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe--people and things, animals and atoms--get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross." Colossians 1:18-20 beauty and wisdom often walk hand in hand and the most powerful expressions of their joint creation seem to be both the most simpliest and yet the deepest of thoughts/statements/reflections…

It’s something of the postmodern dilema that we now live in a different world order of experiencing belief. 20 years ago when I became a christian I was taught:

# here are a set of beliefs you must hold/accept as a christian;
# now do christian things;
#finally feel like a christian.

That train is now reversed I think more and more with people starting off feeling [this feels good] than doing the practices and finally coming to/forming beliefs…

It is a fundamental shift away from the head - believe this or the doing first and focuses as you do on the feelings… this is the feeling, the itch that needs to be scratched - peace, simplicity, connection, realism - it is why for me my heart reacts with delight when I read Paul’s words in the Message translation about Jesus…

“…He was supreme in the beginning and–leading the resurrection parade–he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe–people and things, animals and atoms–get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross.”

Colossians 1:18-20

]]> by: Connie Knighton http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1062 Tue, 31 May 2005 03:14:59 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1062 Okay, so depending on where I am globally, I eat eggs with ketchup or catsup, if they are fried or scrambled or even poached, but as they come if they are hard boiled. I poach my eggs in vinegar water, not those commercial poachers. I scramble my eggs in the microwave. Egg residue requires some scrubbing and very seldom comes clean easily. In that respect it is quite like the opinions of fundamentalists of every stripe who claim uniqueness for their beliefs...a little sticky. Okay, so depending on where I am globally, I eat eggs with ketchup or catsup, if they are fried or scrambled or even poached, but as they come if they are hard boiled. I poach my eggs in vinegar water, not those commercial poachers. I scramble my eggs in the microwave. Egg residue requires some scrubbing and very seldom comes clean easily. In that respect it is quite like the opinions of fundamentalists of every stripe who claim uniqueness for their beliefs…a little sticky.

]]> by: Kristin http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1061 Mon, 30 May 2005 20:04:33 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1061 Susie, I like that...seeing others as mirrors that we need. And Sara, yes, I remember meeting you! Thank you for your comments. Your senior paper sounds really interesting. As one who relates immensely to after-seminary fatigue, I wish you deep rest. Nice to be in touch again! Susie, I like that…seeing others as mirrors that we need. And Sara, yes, I remember meeting you! Thank you for your comments. Your senior paper sounds really interesting. As one who relates immensely to after-seminary fatigue, I wish you deep rest. Nice to be in touch again!

]]> by: saraannefast http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1060 Mon, 30 May 2005 07:04:53 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1060 Hi, My name is Sara F, nice last name, eh? No I'm not Canadian, I'm originally from Oklahoma and just graduated from MBBS this May 1 with an MA in Intercultural Mission. I met you once when Katherine bought your car....which I have benefitted a lot from too--borrowed it quite a lot from her...faithful car! Thanks for this post! It ministers to my heart in some mysterious way that I can't quite put my finger on. In some ways I'm tired after seminary. I want to rest in the simple jesus that I know, but my mind won't allow it and I get frustrated. And so I appreciate your honest reflections...I wrote my sr seminar paper on theological bridging between buddhism and Christianity, so I think it's really cool that you are going to a Buddhist class. Sara :) Hi,
My name is Sara F, nice last name, eh? No I’m not Canadian, I’m originally from Oklahoma and just graduated from MBBS this May 1 with an MA in Intercultural Mission. I met you once when Katherine bought your car….which I have benefitted a lot from too–borrowed it quite a lot from her…faithful car!

Thanks for this post! It ministers to my heart in some mysterious way that I can’t quite put my finger on. In some ways I’m tired after seminary. I want to rest in the simple jesus that I know, but my mind won’t allow it and I get frustrated. And so I appreciate your honest reflections…I wrote my sr seminar paper on theological bridging between buddhism and Christianity, so I think it’s really cool that you are going to a Buddhist class.
Sara :)

]]> by: susie albert miller http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1059 Sat, 28 May 2005 15:26:28 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1059 again, you weave with words, and tell the tales in my heart... the johnson's indeed! what if we really lived like the other's face was the mirror we needed more than anything, more than our way, (the way;) you provoke both thought and silence, thanks... again, you weave with words, and tell the tales in my heart… the johnson’s indeed! what if we really lived like the other’s face was the mirror we needed more than anything, more than our way, (the way;)
you provoke both thought and silence, thanks…

]]> by: roger http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1058 Sat, 28 May 2005 13:13:28 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/05/27/pass-the-potatoes/#comment-1058 AMEN! AMEN!

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