MORGAN'S MOMENT...
Another booklet printed…
      Much more difficult
      Than writing.
I do my own typing…
      and arranging pages
      in right order.
I take my pages
      carefully arranged
      for the printing pro’s.
But they don’t use pages anymore…
      so I go home and attach
      from my computer file.
Only faith lets me hit the send key
      that turns it all digital
      and out of my sight.
An e-mail comes back
      questioning my arrangement
      even a Bible quote!
Three visits create agreement…
      the booklet is printed
      also folded and stapled.
All that’s left is envelope stuffing
      and applying address labels
      then putting them in the mail.
Can anyone imagine a time
       of quill pen and ink
       and papyrus scroll?
— Art Morgan 

BOOK CORNER
Jean probably reads three books to my one. I notice that we get far more responses to her listing of books than to mine.
So I surrender this edition of the blue sheet to a listing of SOME of her recent reading. As you will notice, she seems happy to leave the biblical and theological reading to me. We do discuss one another’s reading. She’s especially good at finding books for me.
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MOMENT MINISTRIES
Mar. 31, 2006
home address:  25921 SW Airport Ave.
Corvallis, OR 97333   541-753-3942
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SPECIAL MAILING ISSUE

It’s been some time since we sent out a collection of anything. The accompanying booklet joins a number of others you may have received in years past. There are others in the wait mode, stalled mostly by inertia.
The 45 Prayers from Thursday Night Church don’t necessarily follow a traditional prayer form, yet in the event setting have exactly that function. While we think them Christian appropriate, they are intentionally broadly inclusive. We find that people outside traditional church value spirituality and are more likely than not put off by specific “God-talk” or “Jesus talk.” Entrance to the realm of sacred thought and feeling may be allowed by simple words. See what you think.


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JEAN’S 2005-06 READING LIST
       When not reading, Jean may be looking for titles in book stores, as she is in this photo taken in Palm Springs! This list is for those who share the search for interesting reading. At least these are books that attracted her.
MYSTERIES AND OTHER FICTION:
        The Wrong Stuff - Sharon Fiffer
        The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell - Lillian Braun
        Step-Ball-Change  - Jean Ray
        Flora’s Lot - Katie Fforde
        Embroidered Truth - Monica Ferris
        Pick up Sticks - Emma Lathan
        Amazing Mrs Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
        The Corner Shop - Elizabeth Cadell
        House of Amalfi - Elizabeth Alder
        Fredrica - Georgette Heyer
        Body in the Belfrey - Katherine Page
        The Penderwicks - Jean Birdsell
        Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death - Jo Dereske
        Rest Ye Merry - Charlotte Macleod
        Village Christmas - Miss Read
        The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites - J.S. Borthwick
NON FICTION:
        Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found my Faith - Martha Beck
        What Would Jackie Do? Guide to Distinctive Living - Shelly Branch
        Loving What Is - Bryon Katie
        Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain - Gene Cohen
        Harvest For Hope: Guide to Mindful Eating - Jane Goodall
        Give It Up – My Year of Learning to Live Better With Less - Mary Carlomagno
        The Martha Rules - Martha Stewart
        Love Smart - Dr. Phil
        Home Rules - Nate Berkus
        Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life - Karen Carton
        Spring Cleaning for the Soul - Jon Krause
        Outside the Not So Big House - Julie Messervy
        Living Color - Natalie Goldberg
        Kitchen Life - Art Smith
FINAL COMMENTS
        Were I to urge the reading of any of her books, I would certainly vote for the Jane Goodall book. It’s a significant work by a trusted author.

        Jean probably wouldn’t consider it “reading,” but she does download 10 pages every day from “Flylady.net” which often motivates and inspires her behavior. It sometimes spills over onto me. Our girls are fans as well. It’s not my thing, but millions of people find it worthwhile.

        Since I still have a line, let me add my most recent book – “Why God Won’t Go Away – Brain Science and the Biology of Belief,” by Andrew Newberg, M.D. I’ll attach my write-up if you’re interested.

        For our pre-Easter sunshine break to the sandy shores of the Sea of Cortez I am taking, for about the 10th time, John Steinbeck’s “The Log From The Sea of Cortez.” For siesta time reading I am taking, ”Dark Star Safari – Overland from Cairo to Cape Town” by Paul Theroux. My book club chose this one.
─ Art Morgan, March 31, 2006