I'm doing 15 things
Coming along
1 year ago
I find myself director of a project that is inspiring young people to create their own coffee house. While it isn’t only mine, it’s great fun!
Chris Hooton's Life List
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1. write a novel
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2. learn to fly
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3. Be a spiritual director
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4. plant a church
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5. learn to play a concertina
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6. visit the south pole and north pole on the same day
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7. travel europe with my wife
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8. develope an online database
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9. read dostoevsky in russian
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10. Read Don Quixote in its original Spanish form.
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11. Study how discipleship works within the context of family across culture.
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12. Learn to play the guitar better
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13. own a coffeeshop
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14. get my doctorate
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15. Get my Masters Degree
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How I did it
It made me
consolations 
How I did it: I am quite taken with the latest tool I’ve found in my quest for spiritual discipline. The podcast from divineoffice.org offers wonderful readings of the hours. I adore their use of music throughout the podcast both incidentally under some of the prayers as well as at the time of the hymn. A bell chimes at the beginning and end calling the soul to prayer. I was reminded sweetly of praying with monks when on retreat. They… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
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3 years ago
I followed through with my intent to give through the A/G benevolence fund. We decided to give $20 and to repeat that as we could.
This week we had a unique opportunity to give. Friends of ours who pastor a menenite church in the area are planning to travel down to work in a church is Mississippi that serves as a red cross station. They will be doing counceling and helping those in the lines as they wait. They invited local churches to help and our church raised $57 (not bad for our people!) and Elaine and I also gave in that offering.
Giving is great, there is a Grace in it.
A little bit
3 years ago
We gave a dollar to Katrina Relief at the grocery store today. I almost laugh at how small a gift it was, yet it was the first time we supported relief monetarily. It has been a very difficult week financially, living on tips, gifts and fumes in the tank. Still we are blessed beyond all measure. Somehow I need to respond to the blessings we have recieved. I will pop over to the A/G website and set up a donation right now.
