January 2014 - Grant Thomas Online

Posted on January 28, 2014June 15, 2014 by Grant Thomas — Leave a comment

Brideshead Revisited and More on Sacrament of the Present Moment

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

For this week’s reading challenge, I moved to reading The Sacrament of the Present Moment to my morning devotional time. ¬†A few pages a day with time to digest seems a more fitting way to consume the text.

Even at this slow pace, I have now found myself at the heart of the book. ¬†De Caussade states that God doesn’t just speak to us in church, but we must look for what He is saying in each moment of every waking day and treat each moment as a sacrament.

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Posted on January 24, 2014June 15, 2014 by Grant Thomas — Leave a comment

The Raven and the Loon Process Video

Posted on January 21, 2014June 15, 2014 by Grant Thomas — Leave a comment

The Sacrament of the Present Moment

This book is only 103 pages, but it feels like very¬†thick book. ¬†After I read 5 pages, I felt like I had read fifty and I really struggled to get into the meat of the text. ¬†It took me a week an half just to read the opening chapters! Continue reading The Sacrament of the Present Moment

Posted on January 16, 2014June 15, 2014 by Grant Thomas — Leave a comment

Throwback Thursday: The Ice Fighters

When I was a kid, my brother and I made up comics about guys in space with laser-like swords and we called them the Ice Fighters. ¬†(I am not sure where we got the idea to have our heroes use laser-like swords in 1986!)

Posted on January 15, 2014June 15, 2014 by Grant Thomas — Leave a comment

Iddy Bitty Indigenous Alaskan

Posted on January 14, 2014June 15, 2014 by Grant Thomas — Leave a comment

Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories (conclusion)

This week I completed Flannery O’Connor’s Complete Stories, which I began blogging about here. ¬†last week, I wondered if I would find another story, that i could include in my list of favorites and in fact I did.

The story in question is,¬†Parker’s Back, which is about a man covered with tattoos who marries a very strict, ugly, Christian woman. ¬†The man is described as covered in tattoos except for on his back and the woman will not even cover her face with make up. ¬†I like the symmetry of how they are described- covered and uncovered. Continue reading Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories (conclusion)

Posted on January 8, 2014June 15, 2014 by Grant Thomas — Leave a comment

Driftwood

I’m completely redoing the Raven and the Loon story – this time with more driftwood!

Posted on January 7, 2014June 15, 2014 by Grant Thomas — Leave a comment

Flannery O’ Connor: The Complete Short Stories

We’ve all had those teachers. ¬†The ones where everything they introduce is golden. ¬†I once had a Chemistry teacher who dropped a giant chunk of Sodium in a vat of water and ran to the back of the room while the whole thing exploded. ¬†She returned to the front of the room and said nonchalantly, “I ran to the back of the room, because my hair is still a little wet from my morning shower and I didn’t want that¬†happening in my hair!”

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