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LAST, wondering idly why, at 3:00, one couldn't nap for an hour before leaving for dinner, unless one was constructing one's appropriate cultural contribution to same.
 
BetteTheRed said:
LAST, wondering idly why, at 3:00, one couldn't nap for an hour before leaving for dinner, unless one was constructing one's appropriate cultural contribution to same.
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I have sermon prep to do too. Tomorrow is the Sunday of Peace so I will be preaching from Ephesians on the armor of God.
 
It doesn't seem very long ago that most Christians hadn't heard of labyrinths, and some those that had considered them 'satanic'. I recall using that word in a conversation with Christians about 1976. They looked at me blankly and had no idea what I was talking about.

I hope the planned labyrinth walk goes well and helps some people let go of some of their stress.

Can you tell us a bit more about your labyrinth? How does it 'go together'? How is it stored between uses? How often is it used?
 
I have a finger labyrinth...the church in Bashaw has one painted on the basement floor that my niece and I have walked...a dream is to have a large one in our yard, or a cloth one in the house.
 
We construct a labyrinth on the floor of our Memorial Hall for each Christmas season. It is a classic 3-circuit labyrinth,. wide enough for wheel chairs and walkers and we decorate the room with chairs for sitting, several Xmas trees, etc. It comprises strings of coloured lights covered with boughs of fresh greenery and centred with a single white candle on a pedestal. Walkers are invited to take a tea light to the centre and light it from the candle.

http://www.graceucc.ca/ Labyrinth picture is on one of the rotating main page slides.
 
And we talked about it today; much as we love our labyrinth lady coming to construct this every year, we think we'd like the flexibility of a labyrinth painted on the floor, both for a pattern for the yearly labour of love with pine boughs and lights, and for use other times of the year. It's on my agenda!
 
BetteTheRed said:
We construct a labyrinth on the floor of our Memorial Hall for each Christmas season. It is a classic 3-circuit labyrinth,. wide enough for wheel chairs and walkers and we decorate the room with chairs for sitting, several Xmas trees, etc. It comprises strings of coloured lights covered with boughs of fresh greenery and centred with a single white candle on a pedestal. Walkers are invited to take a tea light to the centre and light it from the candle.

http://www.graceucc.ca/ Labyrinth picture is on one of the rotating main page slides.
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WOW!
 
I found an outdoor labyrinth while riding my bike back in the summer. It is in the yard of an Anglican church. I parked the bike and walked it and it was quite calming. They also had benches around so you could just sit and be. Bette's Christmas labyrinth looks quite fabulous if I lived down that way it would be a walk I'd want to do.
 
So it was really cold again today and I decided to do some indoor walking at the downtown shopping area. As I was walking I came upon Santa Claus, he waved and said, "Hi there!" I think it must be at least 50 years since Santa last greeted me. One thing hasn't changed in all these years though, Santa still had the same magical twinkle in his eyes that I remember from when I was a kid. :)
 
Well, None of us knows what we are. I was amazed to learn that I have a substantial bundle of Spanish blood. Apparently, Decarie (in its many variations) was a Spanish name. Some of them settled in France six or seven hundred years ago.
Then I have a touch of East Asian barbarian. I have a suspicion there was no lengthy courtship in this case.
And it goes the other way. Decaries are (or were) chiefs of two native tribes in the U.S.
And, so far as I understand it, we are all originally from Africa.
However, if you are a true Baptist, these are all artificial distinctions since we are all descended of an apple-loving couple in the middle east who, for reasons unclear to me, were white.
 
We stay away from things like labyrinths. We prefer to occupy ourselves with teaching and preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ.
 
Graeme Decarie said:
However, if you are a true Baptist, these are all artificial distinctions since we are all descended of an apple-loving couple in the middle east who, for reasons unclear to me, were white.
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Actually, there is no indication in The Bible as to their skin colour so the correct wording would be "are usually portrayed as white". Though it hardly matters to me since I do not take Genesis 1 & 2 literally, and have not in a very very very long time (probably since I was 5 or so).
 
Mendalla said:
Actually, there is no indication in The Bible as to their skin colour so the correct wording would be "are usually portrayed as white". Though it hardly matters to me since I do not take Genesis 1 & 2 literally, and have not in a very very very long time (probably since I was 5 or so).
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Not to mention the fact that the fruit in the Genesis Creation story was not an apple. Also, not every Baptist is a Creationist. Some of us, for example, subscribe to theistic evolution.
 
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