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Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text|When I write my reflections for this wonderful ministry, I will be honest: I often procrastinate, wait for inspiration, furrow my brow over the gospel message. I am not a theologian, so my reflections are usually deeply personal, essentially what I think and feel from my head and my heart about the readings and my prayers for the day. I can say that today's gospel and my reflection are gifts. That's appropriate because today is my birthday. Today's gospel message is a gift for all of us. A gift that we should unwrap every day. Indeed, a gift that I could unwrap many times a day as a reminder to be merciful. How often do I judge others out of a sense of my own misguided righteousness? How often do I condemn as a way to make myself feel better? How often do I seek forgiveness without extending forgiveness to others, wrapped up in my own feelings of hurt pride?|I don't have to be that way. I can extend mercy, and in today's world, mercy is needed more than ever. I can step out of my righteousness and consider what others are going through before even thinking about making a judgement. I can pray for those I would condemn. I can ask for understanding and compassion as I offer those gifts to those around me.|I know it will be a struggle sometimes as I fold those judgements and condemnations around me like a cloak. But as I let go of that cloak, I can feel the weight of all that judgement, condemnation and perceived slights fall away. I can be open to giving and know that God will be merciful to me. Let me work on extending mercy and being open to feeling God's mercy as a gift "packed together, shaken down, and overflowing."
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textThe readings today center on the Transfiguration of the Lord, when Jesus and three of the apostles go to a mountaintop to pray. But while they are there, Jesus was transformed and there were Moses and Elijah. I always try to imagine what it must have been like for the apostles to witness these things they could not fully understand and to be so faithful. In the Gospel, the apostles had become overcome by sleep. Imagine waking to see the glory of Jesus, to see Moses and Elijah. Peter hatches a plan to put up tents for everyone. God tells them to listen to Jesus.||The Transfiguration gives the apostles a glimpse of the glory of God, a glimpse of what they have to grasp as they walk with the man who is the son of God. While we also see that glory, it also reminds us of the depth of what Jesus did when he became man and when he died on the cross.|In the first reading, Daniel describes a remarkably similar vision of power and majesty for the son of God. In the second reading, Peter tells us that he is not just repeating myths of glory and majesty: He saw the glory and majesty as an eyewitness. We may not be on that mountaintop, but we can believe. Peter tell us: "You will do well to be attentive to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts."|That's my prayer for today. I want to be attentive to Jesus as the son of God. When I am in a dark place, I want to open my heart to see the lamp shining, the day dawning and the morning star rising
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text|I like to imagine what this life was like for the apostles. They certainly knew Jesus was a special man, one who could lead them and preach. The apostles could watch the crowds around Jesus; they could hear the lessons of love and forgiveness. There were miracles: sick people healed, the loaves and fishes. What I need to remember is that the apostles knew Jesus as a man. He walked the dusty roads with them, ate with them, likely joked and laughed with them. It was that God part that they sometimes struggled with. They had faith in Jesus, but I am not sure their imaginations were quite as broad or high or deep for the concept of Jesus as God to sink in. They tried to figure it out. I like this Gospel of the Transfiguration because this certainly wasn't business as usual. Jesus takes the apostles to the mountain and appears as God with Moses and Elijah. Peter's response: Let's build some tents. Soon, the vision is gone and as Jesus and the apostles descend the mountain, the apostles are told to keep it quiet until the Son of Man had risen. I can see the furrowed brows and quizzical looks as the apostles tried to figure out the Son of Man risen part as they climbed down the mountain.|In my time, I feel perhaps opposite from the apostles. I know Jesus as God and the Son of Man. Removed from that time and place, I have a harder time imagining the man part. The key, I think, is to broaden and lift my own imagination and my own faith to see Jesus as God and man, to come to an understanding of the depth of his love and God's love for us, that he would become man and then die for our sins. I need the faith of the apostles to live with my difficulty sometimes of wrapping my brain and heart around all of this. Let my faith and my imagining follow what today's second reading suggests:|"You do well to be attentive to it|As a lamp shining in a dark place,|Until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts."|I pray for that lamp to lead me through the dark place and for the morning light
Report on Meteorological Research March 1, 1935 (m-1)
No full textThe object of the report was to elucidate in detail the various features of the research program in meteorology being carried on at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. Mr. L. J. Fangman, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, was collaborating with the author in carrying out work such as a study of autographic records of the various meteorological elements during frontal passages with a view to the possible prediction of the intensity of the accompanying disturbance as it may affect the operation of aircraft and a study of atmospheric gustiness with a view to finding the dependence between frequency end amplitude of velocity fluctuations and the vertical temperature and velocity gradients
(Fourth) Report on Meteorological Activities at the DGAI (8-1-36)(Weather Bureau Copy)
No full textThis report is on the investigations of frontal phenomena at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio from January 1, 1935 through August 1, 1936. The investigation was carried out with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics, the U.S. Weather Bureau, the California Institute of Technology, and the Guggenheim Airship Institute. Mr. R.C. Robinson of the Weather Bureau cooperated with the author in carrying out the investigation. The object of the investigation was to determine the intensity of the atmospheric disturbances (i.e. rapidity of wind shift and gustiness) accompanying the passage of cold fronts, along with a study of the characteristics of the air masses involved and other features which might affect the intensity of the disturbance. The report treated thirty cold fronts which passed the station during 1935 to 1936
Archives and Images as Repositories of Time, Language, and Forms from the Past: A Conversation with Daniel Eisenberg
No full textDaniel Akech
No full textabstract: Daniel was a little boy when the war came to his village. He witnessed people being shot and running for shelter. There was no food or water so he drank urine and ate tree leaves.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 24Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Daniel Emmett postcard
No full textPostcard of Daniel Emmett and his home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Emmett is considered to be the author of the antebellum song "Dixie," written in 1859, which became the unofficial song of the Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. He was born in Mount Vernon in 1815 and taught himself the fiddle, and later became associated with minstrel shows and helped to define that genre. Minstrel shows traveled around the United States, presenting skits and musical performances. Emmett also composed many other songs, including "Old Dan Tucker," "Turkey in the Straw," and "The Blue Tail Fly." He died in 1904
Daniel Jau Maper
No full textabstract: Daniel Jau Maper was herding cattle when Arabs attacked his village.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 27Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Daniel A. Ngor
No full textWhen Daniel was five years old Arab soldiers attacked his village.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age : 23Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
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