tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258163362012-01-29T23:38:17.585-06:00this sacramental life"earth's crammed with heaven
and every common bush
afire with God.
only those who see,
take off their shoes;
the rest sit around
and eat blackberries."
--Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTamara Murphyhttps://profiles.google.com/101563021874987085624noreply@blogger.comBlogger63513Livingpalmhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25816336.post-20331742759434927902012-01-29T11:30:00.001-06:002012-01-29T14:27:59.434-06:002012-01-29T14:27:59.434-06:00a house blessing for Epiphany<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For several months, since moving into our rental home in August, we'd planned to ask some prayer-warrior type people walk through our house, praying blessing and renouncing curse in the space. <a href="http://livingpalm.blogspot.com/2008/05/pick-your-own-metaphor.html">This would not be the first time</a> we'd welcomed this sort of prayer. As sure as God created and then incarnated physical space, we believe praying over space is no superstitious act.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our intention took on more shape as we began to enter official ministry roles at <a href="http://www.christchurch-austin.org/">Christ Church</a>. And as the adrenaline of the move began to wear off leaving behind a slithery trail of ennui in it's departing wake, we began to notice patterns of emotional, spiritual, and physical flare ups surrounding important ministry dates. Or around times of planned rest and renewal. We called time and again on our community of pray-ers, asking them to raise up a canopy of intercession over our tired and fearful selves. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the peak of an especially intense weekend, one which as I think back to describe it all I can imagine is 24 hours x 3 or 4 days of tears and door slamming, we knew the presence of a lower-case <i>other</i> in our midst. Really just harassing us, lying to us, accusing us to ourselves and to each other. We slammed doors as exclamation points on unspoken sentences of worthlessness, despair, fatigue, longing for something -- anything -- to feel just a tiny bit familiar to our adventure-weary souls. Brian sat down yet again to type out needy words to those committed to our care, in the very same moments a piece of artwork in our sons' room seemingly jumped off the wall. It's possible all those days of door slamming had shaken it loose, but it felt like it might have been the work of that lower-case other overplaying his hand. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The print was a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/phaedrajeanartmachine/3948994568/in/set-72157622441116000">piece of artwork</a> we'd purchased last Christmas for our son, entitled "A Clash That Speaks True". Yeah, we didn't think that was a coincidence either.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, the weeks of Advent went by and Christmas shone in. We rested, lived with the delights of comfort and joy for a few weeks. On January 2, Brian was packing his suitcase to leave for ten days. We were preparing for an important ministry meeting the day after he returned. I was reading up on the historical practices of Epiphany. I remembered reading about this tradition in Bobby Gross' devotional guide <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Living-Christian-Year-Inhabit-Story/dp/0830835202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327859180&sr=8-1">Living the Christian Year:</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am thankful for our Rector, Father <a href="http://www.christchurch-austin.org/aboutus/pastoralteam">Clifton Warner</a> (known by most of us, most of the time, as Cliff) who generously met us late on a Wednesday evening. He showed up with a small branch of evergreen, a small jar of clear water, another of anointing oil and a sheaf of papers printed with Anglican house blessing prayers. We clustered around him -- uncertain, a bit awkward. He asked if we owned a cross to carry from room to room. Can you believe the best we could offer was a wooden cross on a loop of leather my son received for his birthday? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of us carried the cross, one the oil, one the water and we followed Cliff from room to room in this homely liturgy. Praying against any evil plan ever made for each space in our home, against every intention opposed to the good will of our Father, every mis-invited spirit not from the Giver of every good gift. We prayed for blessing, peace, purposes lined up with the Christ who is with us, before us, underneath and above us. We prayed written prayers, words selected with wisdom and experience. We prayed our own made-up words -- sometimes tears without words, sometimes with giggles (someday, have <i>your</i> teenage children stand at the foot of their parents' bed and see if you all can make it through without an escaped guffaw or two...).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Protect us, Lord, when we are awake, watch over us as we sleep; that awake we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in his peace. In the name of Jesus Christ, we claim this bedroom as a haven of rest and command any evil spirits to leave this place and never return. We ask you, Lord, to bless this room and this bed, and to send your holy angels to guard it and protect those who sleep here from every attack of Satan or his emissaries. Holy Spirit, we ask you to fill this place, and minister to the hearts of those who abide here, bringing comfort, peace and rest as they sleep.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grant this through Christ our Lord. <b>Amen</b>.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We agreed together with each word, each smudge of oil thumbed over doorways, each flick of water with evergreen stem. We loved each other with prayer and fought for each other and said words of sorry, please, and help. Perhaps, most powerful, though, were the </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thank-you</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> words, the remembering together of the abundant generosity of our Father. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<a href="http://hopeanglican.us/houseblessing.pdf"><b>Click here</b></a> for a pdf of An Anglican House Blessing)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, he managed to purchase a steak dinner for a family of six the same week he bought his first car. It's good to be young and gainfully employed. Of course, the car almost caught fire this morning so that's where the good part ends and the "welcome to the responsibilities of adulthood" begin. We take great comfort in the fact that we've met more lawyers than we can count since moving to Austin and plan to remind the car salesman of this fact in case he tries anything tricky on us. In the meantime, we're trying to find out if Texas has "lemon laws"?</span><br />
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Livingpalm/~4/KIbcgXshjpI" height="1" width="1"/>Tamara Murphyhttps://profiles.google.com/101563021874987085624noreply@blogger.com3http://livingpalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/7-quick-takes-photo-diary.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25816336.post-81105585370251040102012-01-23T09:28:00.000-06:002012-01-23T09:30:17.716-06:002012-01-23T09:30:17.716-06:00Monday Mixtape: Epiphany!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YHPiSXGFlGA/THxsIsM91cI/AAAAAAAADZ4/RaPENchLDBw/s1600/mix+tape+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #bb5421; display: inline !important; float: left; font-family: 'Covered By Your Grace'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="161" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YHPiSXGFlGA/THxsIsM91cI/AAAAAAAADZ4/RaPENchLDBw/s200/mix+tape+3.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(101, 112, 79); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(101, 112, 79); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(101, 112, 79); border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Welcome to <i><a href="http://livingpalm.blogspot.com/search/label/monday%20mix%20tape" style="color: #9cbf54; text-decoration: none;"><b>Monday Mix Tape</b></a></i>, in which I pretend I'm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Glass" style="color: #9cbf54; text-decoration: none;">Ira Glass</a>. You know, I choose a theme and share with you several variations on the theme from the worlds of art, faith and culture. To keep up the fun little facade of making a <a href="http://livingpalm.blogspot.com/search/label/monday%20mix%20tape" style="color: #9cbf54; text-decoration: none;"><b>weekly mix tape</b></a>, I label each of these finds as "track 1", "track 2", and so on (and just like the stack of mixtapes you've got hidden in a box in your attic, you never know when you might see some love song from <i>Journey</i> or Lionel Richie show up here).</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"> We're in the midst of the weeks of Epiphany, the weeks we remember some of the key moments of Jesus' life starting with the visit of the magi to the Child-King, the baptism of Jesus, and the water turned to wine at the Cana wedding. The word <i>epiphany</i> from ancient Greek speaks to <i>a striking appearance</i>, a <i>manifestation</i>. I barely know how to picture the word: <i> manifestation</i>. "To make manifest" does not help me at all, but synonyms shed more light: <i>clear, distinct, unmistakable, open, palpable, visible, conspicuous.</i> Oh, yes, this makes delightful sense to me now.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This may look like a Christmas album, this collection of songs arranged, prepared in 2009 by worship director <a href="http://cardiphonia.org/">Bruce Benedict</a> for corporate worship at <a href="http://www.ctkraleigh.org/">Christ the King Presbyterian</a> in Raleigh, NC. Spend some time listening and you with the lyrics weaving the wonder not only of the day Christ was born but the revealing of God's <i>why</i>. It is in our understanding of the why, we come to know the very heart of God. Look for the heart of God revealed in songwriter's poetry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sampling to start your <a href="http://cardiphonia.bandcamp.com/album/by-all-adored">listening journey</a> (click on the link or the album title to visit the bandcamp page that includes a lyrics option): </span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">"Savior of the nations, come..." (track 1, verse 1)</span></span></li>
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<span class="author" style="display: inline-block; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BY <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/joanie-mackowski" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">JOANIE MACKOWSKI</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A momentary rupture to the vision:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the wavering limbs of a birch fashion</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-indent: -1em;">the fluttering hem of the deity’s garment,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">waltzes across. This is enough—but sometimes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the deity’s heady ta-da coaxes the cherries</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">in our mental slot machine to line up, and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">salmon spawning a river; the jury decides</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">in our favor, and we’re free to see, for now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A flaw swells from the facets of a day, increasing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">our envelope outside time; hairy, claw-like</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">of same-old simultaneous boredom and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">boredom, we hoard epiphanies under the bed,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">c<sub>6</sub><span class="uc" style="text-transform: uppercase;">H</span><sub>3</sub><span class="uc" style="text-transform: uppercase;">(OH)</span><sub>2</sub><span class="uc" style="text-transform: uppercase;">CHOHCH</span><sub>2</sub><span class="uc" style="text-transform: uppercase;">NHCH</span><sub>3</sub>, the heart caught</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">in the deity’s hem and haw, the <em>oh </em>unfurling</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">from our chest like a bee from our cup of coffee,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">an autochthonous greeting: there. Who saw it?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <em>Poetry</em> (November 2011).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we listen to the clues of God's true heart in the scriptural accounts of epiphany, we also gain insight into our own true selves. God does not waste revelation -- as we recognize Him, He names us. (from <a href="http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/index.php?ct=store.details&pid=V00567">The Work of the People</a>)</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b><a href="http://cardiphonia.org/2010/12/28/songs-for-epiphany-2/">Songs for Epiphany</a>: </b>Bruce Benedict's blog, <a href="http://cardiphonia.org/">Cardiphonia</a>, is an excellent resource of tunes and chord charts for those responsible for leading congregations in worship, but also those who hunger for lyrically-rich hymnody to mark the liturgical seasons. </span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b><a href="http://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/epiphany-at-cana/">Epiphany at Cana</a></b>: I enjoyed <a href="http://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/">Malcolm Guite</a>'s sonnets all during <a href="http://livingpalm.blogspot.com/2011/11/monday-mix-tape-advent-1.html">Advent</a>. He continues writing good words in the season of Epiphany as well. This link takes you to the latest, but track back through his blog the previous posts for more.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b><a href="http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/clean-house-hold-steady">Clean House, Hold Steady</a></b>: <a href="http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/">Good Letter</a><a href="http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/">s</a> contributer <a href="http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/contributors#allisonbackous">Allison Backous</a> shares her epiphany on the difference between living life as a victim and life as needing Christ's strength in her weakness.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://livingpalm.blogspot.com/2010/01/epiphany-week-3.html"><b>The Kingdom of God is near you...and far away</b></a>: I shared this post from my musings in January 2010 at an Epiphany night celebration with new and dear friends here in Austin.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/01/epiphany-2011.html"><b>Epiphany 2011</b></a>: To see more profound photographs of the Eastern church celebrating Epiphany, view this article at <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/"><i>The Sacramento Bee</i></a>. Totally fascinating.....</span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><a href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/01/epiphany-2011.html">photo credit</a>:</b> A man enters the water of Komsomolskoe lake through a cutout made in the ice, in downtown Minsk during the Orthodox Epiphany holiday service late on January 18, 2011. People take part in a baptism ceremony during the traditional celebration of Epiphany, one the biggest events in the Christian Orthodox calender. </span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">AFP/ Getty Images / Viktor Drachev</b></span>
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