Tape ministries; passing away peacefully in sleep

The Cut-to-the-Chase resource: AudioBook Ministries

http://www.tapeministries.org/

This site is an assortment of religious materials read by human readers and presented the way materials are prssented through the NLS. If you just need a cool resource stop here.

If your soul is crying for more RantWoman psycho-spiritual adventures read on.

RantWoman has encountered an analogous Quaker resource but cannot remember its name.

RantWoman would also be too happy to riff and rattle about Meeting libraries and electronic publishing and... and...well, save that for another day.

But really, this post is dedicated to:

A middle-aged pastor RantMom knows who retired early because macular degeneration clobbered his eyesight and maybe he did not connect with all the blind ministers out there in the world.

The mysterious blind Presbyterian minister from IA who RantWoman learned recently married RantWoman's maternal grandparents in CO 80+ years ago before moving back to IA.

The flutters of elderly women with failing eyesight who drive large segments of their sister worshippers to worship at any number of faith communities in RantWoman's orbit, and especially Dorothy from RantMom's church who recently passed peacefully from her sleep to her next dimension

There are two more stories needed.

Dorothy is one of the Presbyterian chauffeurs RantMom keeps urging RantWoman to pray will pass their eye tests to keep driving.

RantWoman: MOM, I LOVE YOU but I cannot automatically pray that someone that age passes her eye test. I pray that she and God will figure it out! Dorothy and God seem to have figured it out.

Dorothy apparently does not want a memorial but the RantWomen agree that memorials are for the living and there should certainly be some kind of celebration. Here, though the RantWoman's chatter took an odd turn, toward the recurring arguments between RantDad and the Righteous Rev. Rant Granddad Every time there was a visit, there was always some kind of argument.

RantWoman remembers one visit where RantGranddad needed to go do a funeral or memorial for someone. RantDad took the "Funerals? Bah! " position. RantGranddad took a different positions. They took these positions in the front seat of a parked car wit hthree Rant Siblings in the back seat. They took their positions staunchly with no wiggle room. Staunchly as in a chip off the old block, de tal palo, tal astilo, like father, like son. And somehow despite the arc of the argument everyone made it safely back to Rant Granddad's.

Lord have Mercy, and celebrate Dorothy!

MDiv Thesis Survey: women ministers and women's bodies

Ashley W is a young, well younger than RantWoman anyway, Quaker minister working on her MDiv at Candler School of Theology.  Ashley W and RantWoman have overlapping experience in the realms of cross-yearly meeting dialogue, narrative theology, and Quaker event planning, among other themes. Also, per social media, the survey plan has been through her schools Institutional Review Board process, a fact which always gives RantWoman confidence in survey efforts.

RantWoman is saying all of this rather than saying ANYTHING more about the content of the survey because RantWoman encourages interested readers just to FILL OUT THE SURVEY though RantWoman is trying not to bias the results in any way by supplying more information. Take the survey. Pass it along to women who identify as ministers!

Ashley W's MDiv survey about women ministers and bodies

For reference, Ashley W's blog A Passionate and Determined Quest for Adequacy

Mystical Pants: Subtle? Just cold?

This post is dedicated to everyone who thinks they might not be any good at mystical experiences, mystical experiences such as

--John Woolman's visions

--a "leaning on the everlasting arms" thread that comes through a couple different Friends' testimonies of their spiritual experiences

--"the yellow pages ...quakers" light that dawned on RantWoman shortly after moving to Seattle while in the middle of especially noodly praise music at the vineyard service Little Sister was attending at the time.

In general,  RantWoman would not mind having more subtle and complex dreams. Sometimes , though, she is served up clouts over the head. Recently RantWoman was dreaming of walking around very underdressed on a cold night without an obvious path to more clothing. It was a dream so OF COURSE there were other elements, RantWoman was pretty determined to keep going. At some point RantWoman rolled over and woke up enough to realize that a trip to the bathroom might be helpful. On the way back to bed, RantWoman also added more leg covering. At least when RantWoman went back to sleep being warmer meant she dreamt of different things!

Work with that?

RIP Peg Morton, Eugene Peace Activist

Recently, RantWoman has consistently been really clear after almost every Meeting for Worship that she is supposed to stand up and announce something. It is not just that RantWoman is certain the world is entitled to her views of a certain announcement, riffed on elsewhere. RantWoman has been clear in her leading to speak AND when RantWoman speaks, other people come up to RantWoman and speak about what RantWoman has said!

(RantWoman, being true to her light, is not above telling hostile reviewers to Take a Giant Chill Pill, but so far that need has not crystalized. So far.)

One of the weeks RantWoman was clear to speak, brought first a Quaker realism moment about the death of someone's mother being both a relief and a hole and call to announce the death of longtime peace activist and member of Eugene Friends Peg Morton. Peg Morton's name came up recently in conversation and wonderful memories were shared of Peg's welcoming spirit at FOR gatherings. RantWoman thanks the Friend who spoke for nudges to post the remembrances she has collected.

KLCC: Eugene peace activist died as she lived

Register Guard: Eugene peace activist Peg Morton dies at age 85

FOR: Ibrahim Ramey, Peg Morton Presente


Belateledly adding another

Eugene Weekly Feeling Light Within

Business Meeting? Bach Double Violin Concerto?

This video involves a highly visual joke and that old devout Protestant mystic J.S. Bach. RantWoman does not want to spoil the joke for sighted readers by providing any kind of description and begs the indulgence of blind readers who might need to ask someone nearby for an explanation.

Two points might be helpful:

RantWoman thought of captioning this "we are all ministers of god."

Readers are allowed to wonder WTF this has to do with Business Meeting. RantWoman would be curious what rises from readers about this point.

Now, Enjoy the Music!

Gratitude: Full Moon, over the Rockies, Like Santa everywhere at once

RantWoman needs to express gratitude for the moon and for capacity visually to appreciate these two stunning photos of the Christmas 2015 full moon.

Dear God, RantWoman is getting this thank you letter written before she even gets out all the greetings she means to get out. Hey it's not Epiphany yet...




Christmas Eve Full Moon
Billings MT, Billings Gazette

And ANOTHER GORGEOUS shot, this time from Colorado 

Same moon
Different Mountains
This time in CO
Are we
Dazzled
yet?

ABBA (cover band?) says Happy New Year 2016--with Fireworks - Frohes Neues Jahr [HD]

Look, if you want images of cheerful people singing Happy New Year, use the search engine of your choice. RantWoman alas wants to hear the love behind the words of the song, but somehow the fireworks shells resonating with all that is going on this year, endless wars through the Middle East, Ukraine, Afghanistan... seem more honest if not more sugar-coated.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL and prayers for all that needs prayer!




#Happy2016