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Working Away
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-11-04)
There is a polite form for casually greeting people. I say "Hello" and you might say, "How are you?" I would say "Fine" and you would say something in response such as "That's good". As a different kind of person, when ...
Interruptions and Invitations
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-08-05)
Everything about which I am going to relate to you is absolutely true, without varnish, garnish or exaggerations. Picture this please. I have just finished passing through the security check machine at the local airport. ...
Missing Letters
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-05-06)
Gee-wizz, golly-gee, gee-willakers, are quite common expressions of amazement. The letter g has a quite important place in our language, at least it used to. Place your thumb and index fingers astride your Adam 's apple ...
Hands and Faces
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-08-12)
A natural physical response to making a mistake or in other ways looking foolish or humiliated is to cover our countenance with our hands. This would literally be a "face-saving" device. Shame is losing face or in some way ...
Statistics Class
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-05-13)
It is normal to want to know how we're doing. We often ask people in greeting just how they are doing. They normally do not give you anything but a standard flat answer of being "pretty good" or "could do better", or a ...
Being Noble
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-11-11)
In the history of the human experience of being governed the most usual form has been Royal Dominion, which is a king or queen having sway over their subjects. Nobility was the form, but not always the substance including ...
Polishing Up
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-05-27)
My mother had a tea set of silver resting in a shallow silver plate with frilly tooling around the edge. Each Saturday morning we had to use a gritty Silver Dust polish to get rid of the unshininess which just seemed to ...
Ebb and Flow
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-08-26)
Oceans are a tremendous rolling mystery. Standing on the shore one can imagine all the creatures swimming or resting in the salty vastness. Ships, treasures, caverns, mountains and all other kinds of unknowns are hidden ...
A Deafening Noise
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-04-01)
I am not a musicologist and actually I do not know what that is really.|How does a D-minor differ from a D-seventh? I do know a few finger shiftings on a guitar. I figured one thing out though. The note which begins a ...
How-to and Why-to
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-06-17)
If you go wandering through a substantial bookstore, one with lots of shelves, you will soon come upon the 'how-to-do-it' department. Carpentry, plumbing, electric, finances, cooking, knitting, computering, and weight-loss ...