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Review girl meets GOD a memoir by Lauren F. Winner

Karin — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:55:00 +0000

girl meets GOD is the third book I've read by Lauren F. Winner, though it is the first that she wrote. I got it from the library.

She organizes the book mostly around the Christian calendar -- Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Eastertide, Pentecost, Advent -- and ties it to the Jewish calendar when it applies. The first chapter is Sukkot.

Winner is a seeker after God. She collects an impressive library of Jewish works by the time she is in her teens, then gives them away when she becomes a Christian, then re-buys many of them to re-build her library. She is earnest. It is obvious that she wants to be her best at what she believes, from her converting to Orthodox Judaism (her father was a Reform Jew)(her mother a lapsed Baptist) to her driving a couple of hours away for an Episcopal priest to hear her confessions, even though she has confessed them to God and made an effort to leave them behind.

She is not a virgin, and she writes frankly of trying to reconcile that to church teachings (and her confessions.) Additionally, she has written an online article about sexuality (which I read) and a book (which I have no interest in reading.) Her online article was not well received by some Christians. She feels it is unlikely that people will remain celibate into their 30's, if they postpone marrying until that time.

Because I read all three books over a relatively short time, with a lot of interruptions by life, the books have run on together in my thoughts. The one easiest to read was Mudhouse Sabbath (see my review here.) That one ties together the two elements of her religious life, Judaism and Christianity. It shows how having a deep understanding of Judaism permeates and enriches her Christian faith. (It did many of the early converts to Christianity also, though she doesn't mention this.)

What drew her to Christianity?
The long and short of it: she read extensively, to the point that her Jewish friends commented on it, that it didn't make sense to them. She had a dream. She fell in love with Jesus. I think she was drawn to the ideas of atonement, forgiveness and heaven.

Also, the farther she drifted from Judaism, none of her Jewish friends pulled her back or encouraged her in her faith walk of Judaism.

What happens when she converts to Christianity?
She loses friendships in the Orthodox Jewish community. It deeply disturbs her father. Later, both her father and her mother (who are divorced) are drawn more into their own faith traditions. Her father becomes active in the synagogue, and her mother becomes active in the Episcopalian church.

In some ways she wrote this book as an apology to her Jewish friends, and with the hope that Christians might learn something about Judaism.

My take:
I give it 2 stars out of 4.

I got tired of this book, perhaps because I know what follows in her later books. It got tedious. She has been called self-indulgent. In some ways, following along with her is an emotional roller-coaster. She deals with her jealousy of a friend's marriage and pregnancy -- and more.

As I said, she is earnest, but it's as if, to me, she is trying so hard, because she isn't exactly sure what would happen if she didn't. There comes a point at which one rests in one's faith, while not being complacent. It is who one is, not so much the outward symbols of what one does, though how one acts is definitely important.

Have you read it?
What did you think?

You can find my reviews of Still: notes on a mid-faith crisis here.

It is available for Kindle:

Karin
www.savvythinker.com

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Baby selling in China

Karin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:18:36 +0000

What a tragedy for all the babies and their birth families. While I was aware of baby selling in parts of the world when I adopted from China, 10 and 12 years ago, I didn't believe it happened in China at the time I adopted. Who knows how much of it went on in those days.

Where there is money to be made illicitly, there always seems to be some degree of greed/need. But there is no thought given to the innocents in this, to the babies. Will they reunite them with their families? will any families come forward?

Tragic that families feel the need to sell their children or are swindled into doing so.

Every child deserves a loving family, but in this world it doesn't always happen. Let us work and pray for a more equitable world, for the safety and health of children everywhere, so that no child is separated from their family, from necessity or neglect or scandal, and can grow into their selfhood unencumbered and in joy. So let it be.

Karin

Henan police break up alleged baby-trafficking ring

By Chen Qian | 2009-1-8 | ONLINE EDITION

HENAN Province railway police caught 11 suspects of an alleged baby-trafficking ring after finding seven infants less than one month old taken onto a train.

The seven infants were girls. They were saved by police at Zhengzhou Railway Station in Henan. The girls are now at a social welfare home in the city, Xinhua news agency reported today. Two more suspects are still at large, police said.

Police were suspicious of eight women with infants at the railway station on October 21, Xinhua said. Police couldn't understand their dialect so they stopped them for questioning.

They soon confessed the infants were not their babies and they were taking them to Shandong Province for sale. Four of the suspects are Guizhou Province natives and four are from Yunnan Province, the report said.

The alleged leader Long Fang confessed to police that she asked her in-law Liu Yongqiong to buy babies in October. Liu later contacted a man surnamed Huang and three other suspects to purchase infants in Yunnan.

Liu and Huang remain at large.

Long purchased five infants for 14,600 yuan (US$2,147) in mid October and organized five women to transport them to Shandong, where her accomplice Zhang Li was waiting for the babies, the report said.

Six suspects took a train from Guiyang in Guizhou Province and met two other accomplices half way. The pair had two babies they purchased for 8,000 yuan in Guizhou. They arrived at Zhengzhou Railway Station on October 21 and planned to take a bus to Shandong with the others, the report said.

After catching eight women in Zhengzhou, police caught five more suspects in Shandong, Yunnan and Guizhou in the following three weeks. Among them, 11 have been detained and two are still being investigated, according to the report.

Originally posted 2009-03-20 19:11:15.

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A little crochet story from Italy’s earthquake

Karin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:24:23 +0000

Have you read the story of the 98 year old woman rescued under the rubble of her house after Italy's recent terrible earthquake?

When asked what she did alone in the dark for 30 hours? She crocheted! What a gal! I'd love to see what she crocheted.

I don't think it is possible to keep a woman like this down.

My dear grandmother was quite a crocheter but she stopped long before age 98. She made one beautiful bedspread out of the equivalent of string, the thread was so tiny.

Do you crochet?

I like to crochet, but lately I've been knitting.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-04-10 00:31:23.
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The Third/or Fourth Man Factor

Karin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:20:29 +0000

The Third Man Factor is an interesting concept. Evidently it should be The Fourth Man Factor, but

It was [Sir Ernest] Shackleton’s experience that inspired the term “Third Man factor” (although for his group it was actually a “fourth man” — T.S. Eliot misremembered the number when he wrote his poem The Waste Land, which popularized the idea). Geiger

The new book out by John Geiger sounds like a fascinating read.

Plus you can get this book for your Kindle.

The Third Man Factor is an extraordinary account of how people at the very edge of death experience the sense of an unseen presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. This incorporeal being offered them a feeling of hope, protection, and guidance, and left the person convinced he or she was not alone. There is a name for this phenomenon: It's called the Third Man Factor.

If only a handful of people had ever encountered the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion shared by a few overstressed minds. But over the years, the experience has occurred again and again, to 9/11 survivors, mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, sailors, shipwreck survivors, aviators, and astronauts. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having sensed the close presence of a helper or guardian. The force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention. Recent neurological research suggests something else. Amazon

You can read a long excerpt from his book here. One of the stories he relates is of Ron DiFrancesco who was the last person to make it out of the South Tower alive. He felt such a presence. It came to him as a voice, telling him what to do, encouraging him to survive, changing the direction in which he headed.

One of the interesting things to me was to learn this phenomena has existed in many places. I suppose I would prefer to think of the man as an angel or of Christ. It reminds me of the Biblical story of the three men thrown in the fiery furnace, but witnesses saw a fourth man walking.

He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Dan 3:25

Do you find this interesting?
Do you find it as interesting as I do to have a kind of substantiation of the Bible story by modern day experiences? I take things on faith, but it is good to have proofs of a sort anyway, not that all the proofs in the world would change someone's mind that is already made up.

I can't say I've ever felt a presence per se, but I have had words come to me as thoughts. I have never been in any extreme survival situation.

Karin
www.savvythinker.com

Originally posted 2009-10-19 21:31:14.
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Hand feeding hummingbirds (and finances)

Karin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:10:57 +0000

Just when it seems like a bit of good news would be exceedingly welcomed, comes this true story (I've checked it with Snopes) about a woman hand feeding hummingbirds.

Isn't it great that with the Internet we have a way to easily share these experiences that we might never hear about otherwise?!

Thanks to Cathy for sharing with me in the first place!

It's a reminder to me that "God's in his heaven; all's right with the world."

from "Pippa Passes"

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world!

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Is it possible that in these difficult times we could trust more deeply that God will feed and clothe us, as he does the birds and the lilies? Whether we are literally in need of food, shelter, clothing, water, health, employment or any of a myriad of other needs, the most basic need is for the ideas that will lead us in the right direction and out of limitation.

Ideas are always limitless! (This goes along with the short movie I posted earlier.)

Not too long ago while pondering how I should schedule my day, though my first inclination the night before had been to get on down the road and back home, I felt it was all right to meander a bit. In doing so, I had a number of interesting conversations with strangers, some welcome time with a friend, and a bit of fashion enjoyment, including some time with perfumes.

After I'd been back on the highway for a while, an electronic sign informed me of an accident 26 miles down the road. One lane was closed. (I learned later that it had only cleared about an hour before I got there.) If I had hurried my way home, I would have been stuck for hours while they cleared the road. I was able to get past it without any lost time.

Sometimes we do not know what we or others are protected from, but this time it was apparent. And it could have been far worse, but thankfully wasn't. On this busy stretch of road, many more could have been involved in this accident but were not.

That's just a small example of how ideas will clear our day for us. Expect ideas today and always that will help you!

Karin

Originally posted 2008-09-26 09:26:43.
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Conquering the mountain

Karin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:07:59 +0000

What an idiot! I'm laughing here, because obviously the guy knows what he is doing. My question is why.

It's not what you think. He isn't mountain climbing. He's descending the mountain at umpteen mph on roller blades and wheeled knee and arm pads. Alrighty then!

I suppose you'd call this an extreme sport, and maybe we have others like him to thank for setting aside limitations that the rest of us know would be foolhardy for us.

And maybe it is safer than risking one's life to actually help someone in danger. But the latter seems like a 'better' way to risk life and limb, if there is such a thing. Or maybe, the sheer joy of this makes it completely worthy of doing. Yikes!

I kept thinking of the motorcyclist being overtaken and passed by this guy. Seems like it would be startling to see something out of James Bond hurtle towards and around you. Or one of the drivers coming up the mountain.

Does it endanger anyone else? Do we need to take other people's fears and attitudes into account?

At any rate, it is exhilarating to watch. I, frankly, would be an idiot to even contemplate it.

I think this could be used for a movie stunt!

What do you think?

Karin

Originally posted 2009-12-02 08:55:18.
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Nicholas Winton, an admirable man

Karin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:38:05 +0000

In the presence of good

Nicholas Winton, now 100 years old, was a 29 year old London stockbroker who traveled to Czechoslovakia in 1938, where he rescued hundreds of Jewish children from likely or certain death. Winton's parents were of German Jewish descent.

Even his wife didn't know about it until 40 years after they were married, he remarked in 1999.

Everything that happened before the war actually didn't feel important in the light of the war itself.

Winton, alarmed at the time -- and rightly -- that Czechoslovakia would be invaded by the Nazis and Jewish residents sent to concentration camps, persuaded British officials to accept the children as long as foster homes were found and a 50 pound guarantee was paid for each child. He set about raising funds and organizing passage.

Eight trains carried the children to Britain in the months before the war. A few went to Sweden. Many never saw their parents again, because of the Holocaust.

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the rescue, a vintage train carrying about two dozen survivors and their families pulled into London's Liverpool Street Station this past Friday after three days journey by rail and ferry from Prague. They greeted Nicholas, frail though he was.

It's wonderful to see you all after 70 years. Don't leave it quite so long until we meet here again. Nicholas Winton

I never heard about him until today when the story of the kindertransports was retold in our paper.

It's quite remarkable that someone in the heat of confusing times would be led to act decisively in a timely fashion without regard to himself to save others and give them life. It looks easy in retrospect, but I bet we don't know the half of it or the persuading that needed to take place. And I don't suppose that 50 pounds each was a small sum in those days, not to mention the cost of passage.

To me, he is a righteous man. The world would have been poorer without him. He's another man I'd like to know. I was glad he lived long enough to be recognized for his part. And not to forget the part of all those who aided in giving funds, some of whom might have been their own families. May their memories be for a blessing.

Had you heard of him before?

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong; Be prepared every day to try and do some good. Sir Nicholas Winton

Karin
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Originally posted 2009-09-05 11:23:59.
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Review: have a little faith by Mitch Albom

Karin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:55:55 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed have a little faith ... a true story. A friend loaned me her copy yesterday, saying I would love it. She was right.

Albom also wrote Tuesdays with Morrie and other books.

Albom was raised in the Jewish faith. But he had drifted away, making more and more time for work and less and less for any sense of religion, except he would go back home and sit with his parents in his seat in the synagogue for High Holy days. He never joined a temple where he lived.

During one of his visits, the only rabbi he ever knew as his rabbi, the one from his childhood, asks him if he would write the eulogy for his funeral, not that he is dying, but he is in his 80s.

And so begins the true story of a return to faith.

Albom feels he must get to know the rabbi better, so he begins to fly in on weekends and ask him questions, the large questions of faith, interviewing him. Do you believe? Why do you believe? How did you survive the loss of your 5 year old daughter? How did you reconcile it to your faith? Do you believe in heaven? What about forgiveness? What comes after this life? Will we meet again?

And about the same time he meets a Detroit pastor, ministering to the poorest of the poor, who himself had been a convict, drug user and who-knows-what-all-else. For a long time Albom doesn't trust that the man is real. His before-story seems so beyond belief, to come from that into this.

The book is written not quite in alternating chapters, but close. One chapter will be the story of the rabbi (Albert Lewis) as it unfolds. Then a chapter will be of Henry Covington. And occasionally there will be excerpts from Lewis' sermons.

I felt it was a privilege to walk the path of faith with these three men. After all, each of our faith walks is different, but all of value to God.

Have you read this book?
I give it 4 stars out of 4 stars.

It is also available for Kindle:

Karin

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Review Thor (no spoiler)

Karin — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:35:33 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed Thor when I went to see it. It is a guy's movie that gals will appreciate too. (Chris Hemsworth!) (actually the storyline too.) It got a good review in our paper, but I wasn't sure if I would necessarily like it or not.

It pretty much had a winning combo with Kenneth Branagh directing Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman, not to mention Chris Hemsworth playing Thor (whoo hooo.) I was pleasantly surprised that Hemsworth's acting was not one-dimensional like so many comic characters might be and have been. Tom Hiddleston plays Loki, Thor's brother. I loved Idris Elba as Heimdall, the keeper of the pathway.

The story
Thor and his hammer can win most any war, but war is not always the wisest course of action. He feels he is invincible and leads his friends into a situation that could have tipped the balance of power against his father and his reign. Thor is set to be crowned the next king, but his father realizes he is not ready. Surprise! (for Thor.)

In the background is a traitor whose identity will be revealed and his motivation and his background which isn't as it seems. If you've read the comic book, you probably know who this is. Otherwise, no spoiler.

As a result of the near fiasco, Thor's father, played by Hopkins, banishes him to earth along with his hammer, which has been separated from him. Only the person worthy of the hammer will be able to use it.

Of course, then the hammer is investigated (and protected) by certain US agents. And Thor must find his way back to it and be able to use it.

How this is accomplished, which you know it will be, is the essence of the movie. Portman helps him in this endeavor, as does her colleague (Stellan Skarsgård) (I always like him.) And his friends stick with him, against the traitor, even as he sticks with them. Through the process, Thor learns to lead and to protect.

There is a good moral, or more than one, in the story. It is a kind of parable. Among them: Watch your back! Protect yourself. Don't go into situations unwisely.

Do not leave before the end of the credits!
If you do, you will miss an important scene/preview -- and the credits roll and roll and roll, but do not give up! It is worth it.

Have you seen it?
I give it 3*** out of 4****, as did our paper.

In Norse mythology, Thor (from Old Norse Þórr) is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, destruction, fertility, healing, and the protection of mankind. wikipedia

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Karin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:17:05 +0000

The whole family went to see this over the Christmas break.

This movie returns us to the magic and wonder of C.S. Lewis` beloved world of Narnia. It is simply a good story, one with elements of spirituality, if you are not interested in the Christian metaphors, such as Aslan the Lion, who represents Christ.

It opens with a brief vignette concerning World War II and the differences in the lives of the children who are left in England, compared to their older sister who is not.

For me, it was fun to see how the children have grown up.

In this latest movie from `The Chronicles of Narnia` motion picture franchise, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their insufferable cousin Eustace (who learns his own lessons) are magically transported into Narnia through a painting of a ship on the sea -- the special effects of that are well done.

Once on the ship, the Dawn Treader, they are reunited with their royal friend King Caspian, and a warrior mouse (that I think looks like a clothed rat.)

As much as I disliked their cousin, I loved the mouse. He provides humor, courage, friendship and more. He is very well done.

I especially liked the lesson Lucy learns that it is best to be oneself, not to wish one were someone else. The consequences of becoming someone else are far reaching and involve the actual loss of oneself -- and even of the knowledge of Narnia. In that respect, the lesson is similar to the one learned in It's a Wonderful Life.

If you like a good yarn, go see the movie. I give it 3* out of 4. It is beautifully filmed and nicely acted.

Have you seen it?

Karin
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