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#GHOE – A $35 Fish Sandwich… how about a $616 fish sandwich?
Oct 12th
This evening we received an e-mail saying “Sign this Petition,” a perfectly timed petition in regards to the new Aggie Game Zone around the stadium. The e-mail centered around some idiotic argument that $35 was too much to pay for a fish sandwich, how about a $616 fish sandwich??? A full-time student at A&T would pay $616 per year in athletic fees thus meaning their homecoming fish sandwich from someone’s tailgate would have cost $616.00.
Alumni and friends should view their silly argument from the perspective of the student, the people who provide more support for the athletics programs than anyone else right now. So for alumni who don’t give back their time or money… spend $35 and buy a damn game ticket.
Was it me? A research project on Love
Sep 12th
I can be such a researcher, meticulously pouring over information that sometimes I believe I should not even have access to. When you research, you inevitably come into the process with some type of preconceived notion of the matter and looking for sources to support you. However, sometimes in the process you find out that well, damnit, you’re just absolutely an ass for even thinking that there was some research out there to support your claims.
So what to do when there is nothing to support your claims, well really there is more out there to say that you might as well just walk away from the project? Then again, the next rule of research is make sure your sources are reliable and still relevant. So the next step now is to determine, are the sources still relevant?
So its an Earthquake!
Aug 23rd
I had been taking my sweet time writing a response to my homebuyer class at the Marshall Heights Community Center facilitated by University Legal Services – Far Northeast. I’ll get back to those thoughts a bit later, but today, something a bit more earthshaking occurred. (Yes, I couldn’t resist the joke.) Truth is, who thought something like this was going to happen?
To Yield…or not to yield? Why are we yielding?
Jul 7th
The English language is so interesting. Webster’s dictionary defines the word yield in a number of similar but yet distinct forms. We can yield a bounty, but simultaneously yield our ambition to a more powerful entity. Daily we are forced to yield to on-coming traffic… or at least we are told to yield to on-coming traffic. (The drivers from the Benning Road ramp to DC 295 or from DC 295 onto US50 east don’t get it.)
Yielding can mean so many things but when we look at from the perspective of people who live in a world of dichotomies, then yielding does not fit. If we are to either be on/off, black/white, stop/go, to tell someone to yield then how do we figure it out? I too am having one of those moments trying to figure out what it means to yield in regards to my professional development. I have run full steam for so long and made myself an asset and to be told yield confuses me and in fact seems like a slap in the face.
Nevertheless, we have to go through these moments where we make the best of an interesting situation. Determining how we can grow and develop is very important. While we are told to yield for oncoming traffic, we may just be ready to reap a bountiful harvest.
My friends, who are what are you yielding your ambition/hopes/dreams to and how are you going to get past that roadblock and reach your full potential?
-Brandon
Friday Moment of Faith
May 27th
The recognition of that I am still constantly growing in faith is a reassuring fact for those days when things are looking down and optimism is at an all time low. The assurance that we are never alone keeps me going and confirms that mistakes happen and we can still pick back up and start over again.
This morning I want to share a brief message as we go into this Memorial Day weekend. I hope that everyone uses this time to reflect, remember and reorient themselves to address the visions/issues/goals in their lives and in our collective communities.
Eternal God, we thank you for Jesus, who brought hope to the distressed, promise to the despairing, and healing to the afflicted. In him there is the gift of life eternal to all who believe. We thank you for your Holy Spirit, who calls us to labor. As Christ is the vine, you name us the branches and send us forth to bear much fruit.
Let love lead us to be more forgiving, and add to love the discipline to be a reconciling force in the world. When enemies taunt us, assure us of your presence as we seek patience and inner strength. Amid tensions caused by misunderstanding, suspicion, or lack of trust, send your Spirit of insight and hope. Help us make the first move toward those we have offended, forsaking our pride in seeking peace.
Let love lead us to be more daring. Give us the boldness to speak out on behalf of the voiceless. Let us not be afraid to venture into dark places, or into situations in which we are not in control. Fill us with the confidence that you will not desert us, the assurance that what we do is in accord with your will. Keep us from becoming frustrated by the many faces of evil, and set our sights on those injustices that we can overcome.
Let love lead us to be more trusting. Give us the faith to make Christ supreme in our lives. Help us translate our words of confession into acts of compassion, our desire to be faithful into deeds of obedience. Your love does indeed work wonders. Work now in us, so that others may behold your love.
–from When We Gather: A Book of Prayers for Worship, by James G. Kirk. (Louisville, Kentucky: Geneva Press, 2001), 188.
James G. Kirk is pastor of Harundale Presbyterian Church in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
http://oga.pcusa.org/perspectives/feb03/feb03-prayer.htm (Published February 2003)
