Saturday, February 26, 2005

create your own visited states map

My visited state map - I have been to about a third of all states.



create your own visited countries map

According to this, I have visited 17 countries, which is 7% of the total. Mainly due to having lived in Europe :-)

posted by Birgit
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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Behold - the Liger.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

"I'm putting all my eggs in one basket
I'm betting everything I got on you.
I'm giving all my love to one baby
Lord help me if my baby don't come through.."

One of my favorite Ella Fitzgerald songs, which I was singing loudly while doing the dishes last night. Sometimes I get these moments of panic, just for a second - I am putting all my eggs in one basket, with this one God. What if the whole thing isn't true? Even "Lord help me" becomes ironic in that case...

Usually that happens when I see these horrid things happening, and all of a sudden there is this stab of fear - what if this world is really all there is? It doesn't usually last very long - God's presence and interaction has been too real in my life too many times. And really, even if it bizarrely should turn out it wasn't true, I don't think I would regret having followed this God - because I like the way loving him has changed me, the person I am now as opposed to the person I was before I fell in love with him...
But really, I don't think I would have stayed in love with him this long if the relationship was entirely one-sided... He is...

posted by Birgit
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Monday, February 07, 2005

Is it really that difficult for people to distinguish between a war and the people fighting in the war?
I am on an e-mail list that has a fair amount of Mennonites on it. One of those moms has a daughter who does not subscribe to the pacifist family views, joined the military, and got deployed to Iraq.
Now the family is being given grief over sending care packages to their daughter, and asking for prayer.
Now it is no great secret that I am not anywhere near convinced that the war on Iraq was necessary. But why does dislike for the war have to translate into dislike for the men and women fighting in it? Why can't a mom hate the war, and love her daughter? Supporting a soldier is not the same thing as supporting the war, is it?

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Saturday, February 05, 2005

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