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September 26, 2008

Friday Favorites

Well, this week my biggest surprise was getting a substantial, good, fair, and encouraging email from Edith Humphrey, professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Seminary.   We met for the first time back at the Wheaton theology conference in April.  After telling her what I was doing, she told me to keep in touch.  I sent her  my drafts back in August.  I had no idea how she would respond.  But I was interested in a female theologian's feedback.  I was truly blessed by her long, in-depth email last night.  She hadn't read the entire thing yet, just my first two chapters but she gave me serious feedback and encouragement and told me she felt it was a book that should be written.

How was your week?

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Today I am celebrating tomorrow's anniversary of twenty-two years of marriage.

I also got to post on my blog again this week after nearly a month hiatus.

Today I had the privilege of interviewing my boss about the challenges and responsibilities of working in the Jewel-Osco management program. This was in conjunction with a school project, but it also helped me realize how much I am looking forward to crafting a career at Jewel.

Congrats, Dan. When things fall into place the way they have for you, I take it as a sure sign I am walking God's path for me. :)

More job prospects this week. Two more potential collaborators (besides cgf) and a potential column. I keep asking what I'm doing, and the answer is always "the timing feels right." Just praying for strength and guidance at this point!

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Cross-Sex Friendship Quote of the Week

  • "With sexuality, the competition between the demands of erotic love and the hopes of friendship might trouble relationships of all shades of affection and, if it does, eros often seems to hold sway. But if a passionate as opposed to a merely sexual element in the relationship gains the upper hand, and the desire to get to know the other person in mind and spirit grows, then the possessive love of lovers can give way to the wider aspiration of friends." Mark Vernon

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Quotes on Friendship

  • "Heaven, the essentiality of being, where everything achieves its full authenticity, is already close to us in friendship." Ladislaus Boros
  • "Few things are as healing and life-giving as is friendship between woman and man, man and woman." Ronald Rolheiser
  • "A man needs something which is more than friendship and yet is not love as it is generally understood. This something nevertheless a woman only can give." Mark Rutherford
  • "Few things are likelier to kill a friendship quicker than a careful and strictly adhered-to-theory of what qualities are needed in friend. " Joseph Epstein
  • "A soul mate doesn't have to be a sex mate." Lisa Gee
  • "I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest things we know." Emerson
  • "Prayer together is the foundation of redemptive friendships." D. Michael Henderson
  • "Friendship is the place where forgiveness begins." John Swinton
  • "Authentic friendship is notoriously different and inescapably risky. True friendships are not relationships we control but adventures we enter into." Paul Wadell
  • "It is more important who they are as people and only then it is important who they are as dancers." Marcia Haydee
  • "There is a love that does not desire to possess. It is called friendship. When friendship is the determining force in a relationship, individuals are able to find themselves and a passion for life, not merely lose themselves in love." Mark Vernon
  • "In this kingdom the distinctions and barriers between male and female were to be broken down...to actualize the potential of any love--in this case a male and female love of friendship--can be to participate in the building of a kingdom of love...spiritual friendships shared by men and women can be eschatological signs." Wendy Wright
  • "Friendship defies reduction." Mary E Hunt
  • "Friendship forms. Friendship is a much underestimated aspect of spirituality. It's every bit as significant as prayer and fasting. Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what is common in human experience and turns it into something holy." Eugene Peterson
  • "The radical power of the best of friendships is that they empower us to break free from the destructive fantasies and ideologies of our culture in order to begin something better." Paul Wadell

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