My Photos - Friends 2011

My Photos - Friends 2011

TWEM Update 147/158 = 93%

11 MORE! I am almost to the single digits!!!!

MOSTLY HISTORY

EARLY MODERN (1600 – 1850)

1776 Decline & Fall Roman Empire Gibbon (Through Volume I!)

1835 Democracy in America Tocqueville 

MODERN (1850 – present)

1860 Civilization of Renaissance Burckhardt 

1904 Protestant Work Ethic & Spirit of Capitalism Weber 

1937 The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell
1938 The New England Mind Miller 
1973 The Gulag Archipelago (only Autobiography left)

1974 Roll, Jordan, Roll Genovese 

1978 Distant Mirror Tuchman (January 2011)
1987 All the President's Men Woodward & Bernstein 

1990 A Midwife's Tale Ballard
1992 The End of History & the Last Man Fukuyama 

It is Well With My Soul

I have had a phenomenally good week. I have been sick, but it has been a moderate sickness. So, I have been able to pull in socially and ministry-wise which was good since I had been having too much time with people lately. Two weekends in a row of conference was too much. Praise God we didn't go to the conference from Wednesday - Saturday that we had originally thought we would go to up in Seattle! That is the wisdom and foresight of my sweet, George. He takes such good care of us.

So, I sit here in the sunshine of another beautiful day in Oregon. I am soaking in the rays of Friday. I will go for another walk at the warmest part of the day since I am better. Yesterday was really good for me to get outside.

I have prayed and prioritized in prayer those things that are most important. I am praying "bigger" prayers lately, but I want to do it corporately. I am praying for some partners in "regions beyond" rather than the prayer for Aunt Lilly's big toe surgery. I don't want to downplay the importance of that kind of prayer, but I don't want that to be the only type, and I want focused time with others where that is the only intention.

I am loving Bible Book Club this time around. I am proofreading and editing the previously posts and writing new ones when others wrote to give me a break. It is not as much time, but it is so rewarding to reread all that I learned over that three year adventure. I will never regret the commitment, and I am thankful that others (especially Becky and Katrina) could help me out during the first round. Writing everyday would have really killed me!

I haven't been exercising as much as I would like but that will change when I get back to 100% wellness. I have been eating more than I would like, but I am finishing up my 1/3 fast for 2011 by four more days at the end of January.

Oh this sunshine is beautiful.

I am also plugging along on TWEM. I finished A Distant Mirror and am through the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I really liked the chapter on early Christianity. It is very much like what Gary Ferngren taught on at Beth's Bible Study a few years ago.

George and I are "dating" by watching Lost together. I love that ClearPlay takes out the racy parts for us because it is a great Sci Fi story that would have been spoiled by the raciness!  YEAH CLEARPLAY!

Michael is growing by leaps and bounds. He is "increasing in wisdom and stature with both God and men" (Luke 2:52). I see him worshiping and digging in Scripture and hanging out with godly people. I am also encouraged by Paul as he asks the tough questions about grace and Jesus' blood. I don't think this is scary at all. He wants to know why. He is a great kids. Still waiting to blossom, but he has some more time in our nest to do that.

I love the ladies I am meeting with too: Jen, Jane, and Elizabeth. I meet with others infrequently. I want to meet with Samira more regularly, and I need to pray abut that today. I also need to see about another Prophets study as N is not able to meet anymore.

Well, I need to get to more prayer to "regions beyond"!

Our God is Mighty To Save

Lyrics | Hillsong United lyrics - Mighty To Save lyrics

2010 - Movies, Series, and Documentaries

2010 MOVIES AND DOCUMENTARIES

JANUARY

1. Inn of the Sixth Happiness

2. Beyond the Sea

3. The Other Boleyn Girl

4. Love Comes Softly

5. Love's Enduring Promise

6. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

7. Love's Long Journey

8. Love's Abiding Joy

9. Love's Unending Legacy

10. Love's Unfolding Dream

11. The Last Holiday

12. Emma (Kate Beckinsale)

13. Invictus

14. The Rookie

15. The Inheritance

16. Little Women

17. The Last Sin Eater

18. Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

19. Elizabethtown

FEBRUARY

20. Little Dorrit

21. Avatar

22. Emma (Ramola Garai)

23. Mad Men I

24. She Stoops To Conquer

25. Mad Men II

26. Grizzly Man (intense!)

27. Ruth Rendell Mystery: Master of the Moor

MARCH

28. Young@Heart (sweet documentary)

29. The Nativity Story

30. Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 1

31. Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 2

32. Glee I

33. Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 3

34. Book of John: Part Two

APRIL

35. Food, Inc.

36. Miracle at Midnight (awesome!)

MAY

37. This is It

38. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (first time!)

39. Annie

40. Life After Tomorrow

41. Mad Men 3

42. Road to Avonlea 2

43. Rick Steve's Iran (great!)

44. Father Brown Mysteries Series 2

JUNE

45. Ivanhoe

46. The Fantastic Four: Silver Surfer

47. The Merchant of Venice (Al Pacino rocks but put it on Clear Play!)

48. Newsies

49. Being Julia

50. The Producers (Wilder, Mostel)

51. Fireproof

52. Toy Story 3

JULY

53. Fantastic Four

54. The Producers (Lane, Broderick)

55. Precious

56. The Art of Reading (Teaching Company)

57. Capote

58. The Princess Bride

59. An Education

60. Junebug (see it in ClearPlay - not worth the hype)

61. War and Peace (Anthony Hopkins rocks)

AUGUST

62. The White Countess (beautiful film)

63. Charlie St. Cloud

64. 10 things I Hate About You

65. Hamlet (Branaugh version)

66. Frost/Nixon

67. Henry V

68. Hairspray

69. Save the Last Dance

70. Persuasian

71. Rick Steves' Europe: Germany, Benelux, and More

72. Emma (Ramola G. version)

73. Ella Enchanted

74. The Longest Day (Classic!)

75. Valkyrie

76. Rick Steves' Europe: Greece and Turkey

77. Rick Steves' Europe: France

78. Rick Steves' Travel Tips

79. The Old Curiosity Shop (Ustanov)

SEPTEMBER

80. Hornblower: The Duel

81. Hornblower: The 

Fire Ships

82. Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

83. Hornblower: The Wrong War

84. The Magic Never Ends: The Life and Work of C.S. Lewis

85. Rick Steves' Europe: England and Wales

86. Rick Steves' Europe: Ireland and Scotland

87. Rick Steves' Europe: Scandinavia

88. Rick Steves' Europe: Austria and the Alps

89. Bright Star

OCTOBER

90. Facing Ali

91. The Social Network

92. Malcolm X (Clear Play)

NOVEMBER

93. Good Hair

94. Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging

95. Waiting for Superman

96. Band of Brothers (oh my. so good with ClearPlay)

97. Dorian Gray (don't watch it without filtering on ClearPlay! Scary!)

98. A Single Man

99. Enchanted

100. The Crash of 1929

DECEMBER

101. Elf (first time - so funny!)

102. Pride and Prejudice

103. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

104. A Christmas Story (so stupid!!!)

105. Lost: Season 1

106. The King's Speech

107. Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2010 Reading List (includes individual poems and books of the Bible)

"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" was one of the poems I read.

I can't believe I have waited so long to post this

JANUARY

1. "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (short story)

2. Dinner with a Perfect Stranger

FEBRUARY

3. The Bad Back Book

MARCH

4. Church Planting Movements

5. Houses that Changed the World

6. Sarah's Key

7. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by Blake

8. Outliers

APRIL

9. So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

WORDSWORTH

10."Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"

11."The Idiot Boy"

12."It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"

13."I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

14."Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"

15."Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-tree"

16."Lines Written in Early Spring"

17."London, 1802"

18. "Lucy Gray"

19."Ode:Intimation of Immortality"

20."She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"

21."Simon Lee"

22."The World is Too Much With Us"

MAY

23."How Much Land Does a Man Need" by Tolstoy

24."Enoch Arden" by Tennyson

COLERIDGE

25."The Eolian Harp"

26."This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"

27."Dejection:An Ode"

28."Kubla Khan"

29."The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

30."Christabel"_____________

31. Acts

32. Falling Leaves

33. Romans

34. 1 Corinthians

35. The Quran translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

36. The Prelude by Wordsworth

ROSSETTI

37. "Better Resurrection"

38. "A Birthday"

39. "After Death"

40. "A Christmas Carol"

41. "The Convent Threshold"

42. "De Profundis"

43. "Dream Land"

44. "Goblin Market"

45. "Good Friday"

46. "Maude Clare"

47. "Monna Innominata"

48. "The Prince's Progress"

49. "Remember"

50. "Sister Maude"

51. "The Three Enemies"

52. "Up Hill"

53. "When I am Dead my Dearest"

TENNYSON

54. "Dying Swan"

55. "The Lotos Eaters"

56. In Memoriam A.H.H.

_____

57. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

JUNE

KEATS

58. "Hyperion: A Fragment"

59. Endymion

HOPKINS

60."God's Grandeur

61. "Pied Beauty"

62. "The Caged Skylark"

63. "The Windhover"

64. "Carrion Comfort"

65. "No Worst"

66. "The Wreck of the Deutschland"

YEATS

67. "A Prayer for My Daughter"

68. "The Cap and Bells"

69. "Down by the Salley Gardens"

70. "Easter 1916"

71. "The Coming of Wisdom with Time"

72. "The Lake Isle of Inisfree"

73. "Lapis Lazuli"

74. "Leda and the Swan"

75. "The Magi"

76. "Memory"

77. "Sailing to Byzantium"

78. "The Second Coming"

79. "The Secret Rose"

80. "September 1913"

81. "Three Things"

82. "The Wheel"

83. "When You Are Old"

84. "The Wild Swans at Coole"

85. "The Fiddler of Dooney"

AUDEN

86. "As I Walked Out One Evening"

87. "The Common Life"

88. "Compline"

89. "Epitaph on a Tyrant"

90. "The Fall of Rome"

91. "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"

92. "In Memory of W.B. Yets"

93. "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love"

94. "Lullaby"

95. "The More Loving One"

96. "On the Circuit"

97. "Propero to Ariel"

98. "September 1, 1939"

99. "The Shield of Achilles"

100. "Under Which Lyre"

101. "The Unknown Citizen"

102. "Walk After Dark"

LARKIN

103."Annus Mirabilis"

104. "Aubade"

105. "Deceptions"

106. "Essential Beauty"

107. "Far Out"

108. "High Windows"

109. "I Remember, I Remember"

110. "The Importance of Elsewhere"

111. "Is It for Now or for Always"

112. "Long Sight in Age"

113. "Modesties"

114. "The Old Fools"

115. "Story"

116. "Since the Majority of Me"

117. "This Be the Verse"

118. "To Put One Brick Upon Another"

119. "Toads"

120. "Why Did I Dream About You Last Night"

121. "To My Wife"

HEANY

122. "Blackberry-Picking"

123. "Bogland"

124. "Casualty"

125. "Digging"

126. "Death of a Naturalist"

127. "Field Work"

128. "Hailstones"

129. "The Haw Lantern"

130. "Lightenings"

131. "The Ministry of Fear"

132. "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication"

133. "Personal Helicon"

134. "Poets Chair"

135. "Squarings"

136. "Tollund"

137. Idylls of the King by Tennyson

138. Journal of a Solitude

139. Essays of Montaigne, Screech translation

140. Ecce Homo by Nietzsche

141. The Communist Manifesto

142. 2 Corinthians

144. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

145. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

146. Galatians

147. Be Free

148. Ephesians

149. Be Rich

150. Philippians

151. Be Joyful

152. Surprised by Joy

153. Colossians

154. Be Complete

155. Holman New Testament Commentary: Galatians-Colossians

JULY

156. 1 Thessalonians

157. 2 Thessalonians

158. Be Ready

159. 1 Timothy

160. The Picture of Dorian Gray

161. 2 Timothy

162. Titus

163. Philemon

164. Be Faithful

165. Hebrews

166. James

167. War and Peace

AUGUST

168. The Art of Racing in the Rain

169. Captains Courageous

170. The Pursuit of God (a favorite)

171. The Longest Day (amazing book, must read)

172. The History of England: Volume 5

173. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Gandhi

174. 1 Peter

175. Be Hopeful (1 Peter)

176. 2 Peter

177. 1 John

178. 2 John

179. 3 John

180. Jude

181. Be Alert (2 Peter, 2,3 John, Jude)

182. Be Real (1 John)

SEPTEMBER

183. Mein Kampf

184. Seven Story Mountain

185. Revelation

OCTOBER

186. Same Kind of Different as Me

187. Life Application Bible (NIV)

188. The Prewrath Rapture Position Explained: Plain & Simple

189. Final Questions:Vital Questions for Every Person on Earth

190: Be Victorious

NOVEMBER

191. The Worst Hard Time

192. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

193. Man's Search for Meaning

194. Picking Cotton

DECEMBER

195. The Book Thief

196. The Veil

197. The Great Crash of 1929

198. Skeletons on the Zahara

199. Sing a Song of Gladness

200. God is Good

201. A Christmas Carol (audiobook)

202. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

203. Desiring God

204. Devil in the White City

205. The Help

206. Life is Good