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A Celtic Prayer for a Musician (by Christine Sine)

March 19th, 2009, 1 Comment

I’m selling a guitar and the new buyer is a 15-year-old who was inspired to learn the instrument at church camp last summer. Over Twitter, I asked the lovely and wise Christine Sine to help me with a Celtic blessing to send along with the guitar when pack it for shipment tonight. Her response was [...]

A Celtic Prayer for Recovery of Corrupted Data

September 8th, 2008, 3 Comments

I photographed a wedding this past weekend, and one of my five CF data cards is apparently corrupt – or at least, empty. It’s time for another entry into the Celtic Prayer series. Sacred Trinity, Together you breathe a world pure, holy, life-filled Together you restore that which is broken Together you find that which [...]

A Celtic Prayer for Donating Blood

July 12th, 2008, 1 Comment

I love the everyday-ness of Celtic prayers that can be found in collections like Carmina Gadelica (Alexander Carmichael) . When you have a Christian spirituality that has prayers for milking cows, for giving birth, for putting on the hot water, you’re in my world. Today I donated blood. I thought it would be good to [...]

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I make my living as a software engineer and project manager. I have particular interest in social software, social networks, and systems that build relationship between people.

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I'm studying spiritual formation in an Internet-based world. I'm trying to learn from early Christian spirituality's monastic movements: the desert fathers and mothers, Benedictines, Celts, Fransciscans and others, in order to see how they ordered their values and actions to be fully devoted to God's work. Their total devotion to the presence of God was countercultural, that can show us what it means to be countercultural in our wholehearted devotion to God in contemporary culture.

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