Monday, 19 January 2009

With apologies to Brian Wren

I seem to have slightly misremembered the title of Brian Wren's book of hymns Piece Together Praise but since this blog was inspired by a course on scrapbooking and piecing together remembered Bible stories (see Women in Ministries blog) it still seems appropriate. And anyway, I find both life and praise never quite fit or make sense if you try to make them out of just one piece, just one voice, just one truth. I always need to piece meaning together from many different contexts - and even then it's usually somewhat distorted to try to fit everything in... though that may be just the result of my mental/handicraft skills...
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  1. Tony Brett19 January 2009 at 08:47

    Great to see you blogging Sarah. Is "scrapbooking" a pieced together word? It sounds a bit like a noun mashed into a verb to me, a bit like texting! :-)

    I look forward to hearing your wise and considered insights and will try to add to them with similar comments.

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  2. SarahH21 January 2009 at 02:13

    Scrapbooking is a portmanteau word in the Humpty Dumpty sense - it does what I tell it to do! But I think in crafting circles it does already exist.
    If I have any wise and considered insights I shall definitely post them. Thanks for your interest!

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  3. Anonymous21 January 2009 at 05:16

    What a wonderful idea. I love the whole concept of mixing things up; this idea of 'patchwork praise' has started sparking thoughts off each other already :) Can't wait to read more.

    Abi

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  4. Mark25 January 2009 at 02:29

    Very pleased to have found you online, Sarah. Good luck with the new blog. Very much looking forward to reading it.

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  5. Penelope29 January 2009 at 05:32

    Funnily enough (or perhaps not) Humpty Dumpty sprang to my mind on Monday, when we were talking about controlled vocabularies and taxonomies. I said to my neighbour - so we say what we want the words to mean, like HD. - But she wasn't you, so, as usual, had no idea what I meant!
    Miss you, S, I'll keep up with you here..P

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