Wes Roberts

...posted on FaceBook this evening:

Wes Roberts is saying, "Oh joy?"  No joy.  Went to the foothills on Friday on two good feet.  Came home today on two crutches and only one good foot.  Ugh!  As mentioned on my blog, I now know a bit more about lamenting.  Doctor tomorrow...wondering what the week will bring.

...a May tapestry #12:

...continuing to think about lament in the midst of our quick-fix-let's-experience-as-little-pain-as-possible world...and if we do experience any pain, an olde notion goes, let's numb it out

...well acknowledging that pain, of any kind, is no picnic

...if you have the full Bible called The Message, I would encourage you to read Dr. Eugene Peterson's introduction to the Old Testament book of Lamentations

...in both the opening paragraph...and the closing paragraph of his intro he states:

...whew!

...though a promotion

...well worth the look/see

...easily!

...if you've followed some of my blog posts

...or chased me down via FaceBook

...then you know that, easily, we sincerely enjoy and have the sacred privilege of knowing some of the finest people to exist on the planet

...in the midst of the early cool of this Friday morning I went through every name in our database, our email addresses and (totally crazy here) all the names who are FaceBook friends

...zowieeeeee!

...what an amazing, diverse, powerful, humble, brilliant, talented, radical grouping could not have been assembled without some divine design!

...including this good and close friend

...a May tapestry #11:

...final threads in May's tapestry concern a topic I've been sifting through slowly, carefully, hopefully thoughtfully, in the last couple of weeks

...'tis a topic we don't entertain much these days

...at least I haven't, especially when over-busy, harried, hurried and tired

...what's with the final threads of May?

...lament

...there's a whole OT book about the topic

...what do you think it means to lament?

...not just a dictionary definition, but for you

...what might the term mean?

...is it just a sacred excuse to whine?

...is it an important (...but often overlooked...) part of our core development as a human, no matter our circumstances...or even our belief systems?

...is it something to be avoided.......or expressed?

...in a "be happy" world of false relational ideologies and uber cool belief systems that's supposed to reinvent church, or other systems that ultimately let out what we truly, really, yup-you've-got-it believe to be true about life and how to live it, is lamenting in any form legit for children all the way up to olders?

...is hip, foul language a cultural form of lament?

...in what ways am I afraid of lamenting and where it may take me within my soulish existence?

...is it healthy.....holy.......or hellish to even consider?

...just some of my questions in the past ten days

...stay tuned, as I'm not lamenting what I'm discovering, and will look forward to sharing some building, though embrionic and imcomplete, thoughts on the topic of lament with you

...whether you live in Canada...or not:

...most important to support here

...and here

...we need to do what we can, there, and in our own places of existence

...this "stuff" is happening close to you, too

...not just somewhere else

...a May tapestry #11:

...don't often begin the day with tears

...but today I do

...hopeful tears, thanks to a new acquaintance/friend

...remembering:

...oh wow!!!...Susan Boyle does it again:

...listen and enjoy

...and I, for one, hope she takes the prize

...a May tapestry #10:

...the threads of May

...some extra, extra fine that take careful handling

...some like thick ropes or cables that have almost roughly pushed their way into the tapestry of my existence

...continue to weave their way through my soul