http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress Thoughts from our faith community about life Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:48:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2010 info@sjumc.net (James Henry) info@sjumc.net (James Henry) 1440 http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress 144 144 Thoughts from our faith community about life James Henry James Henry info@sjumc.net no no http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/10/footnote-to-discipline-message/ http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/10/footnote-to-discipline-message/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:09:38 +0000 James http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/?p=203 This past weekend as I was preaching I began to tie in a movie I had seen recently, Grace Is Gone. I could not for the life of me remember why I had begun to relate the story. It was a piece in the movie about how the younger daughter kept a sense of connection with her mother who was deployed in Iraq- both mother and daughter had their watches programed to beep simultaneously across an ocean. They both would be thinking of one another at the same time. It was to have been a leaping point to talk about a different kind of reminder for adding disciplines (like prayer) to our days, perhaps adding an alarm to our datebook or clock or phone or watch. That is where I was going when I lost my train of thought…

]]> This past weekend as I was preaching I began to tie in a movie I had seen recently, Grace Is Gone. I could not for the life of me remember why I had begun to relate the story. It was a piece in the movie about how the younger daughter kept a sense of connection with her mother who was deployed in Iraq- both mother and daughter had their watches programed to beep simultaneously across an ocean. They both would be thinking of one another at the same time. It was to have been a leaping point to talk about a different kind of reminder for adding disciplines (like prayer) to our days, perhaps adding an alarm to our datebook or clock or phone or watch. That is where I was going when I lost my train of thought…

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