One Cup?

So today I partook in a "One Cup" Communion service... well, sort of.
There were in actuality four cups.
To my surprise (& relief, I guess?) we didn't all sip from the same four cups, but rather,
broke off pieces of (leavened) bread & dipped them in the cup...

Is this the right way to do communion?

Is it the wrong way?

I guess I would probably say "No" to both questions.

I am not really put off or upset by the use of leavened bread... Or the one cup, or the dipping rather then sipping. I don't think it is probably the most accurate representation of the original feast, but neither is the use of grape juice over wine... or the use of a tiny crumb & thimble-sized cup over a real feast or a snack...

I think the more important issue is in actually celebrating the feast... it is pointless in splitting hairs over what "This" is if we don't "Do this," or, if it ceases to be "In Remembrance of (Christ)."

Permanent Possessions

I will never forget the words of the mostly ignorant & camera-illiterate BestBuy salesman who told me "It doesn't matter which one you get, if you buy a DSLR (digital single-lens-reflex camera), you've got a camera for life."

I don't know if he meant "These cameras are so expensive that no matter what happens to it you will gladly shell-out for repairs." Or perhaps he was referring to the level of pasion for & dedication to photography that someone buying a DSLR has or will have upon embarking on this wonderful photographic experience. I tend to think that this guy was just ignorant enough of technology to think that these cameras never wear out, break, or get out-dated... This was 2 years & 3 models ago of the same camera I was looking at (which I had actually bought online earlier that month).

Truth is, folks, everything wears out. Everything breaks eventually. And everything electronic or tech-based gets out-dated before to terribly long, and probably quicker then the last t-shirt you bought...

If you are looking for permanence, I would say that possessions are a lame place to look...

(pictured above, the 35mm film SLR I just bought used (almost new) for 2/3 less than retail. I don't consider gear or photography my source of happiness, but it is a lot of fun! :)

The Retard.

You might say that I am a cleaning retard... it takes me 2-5x as long as most people to clean, and this is a painful and tedious process for me. That being said, I'm doing it... I'm cleaning my house. And much like a retard in school, people might ask "why does he clean, he's obviously not good at it." The answer is simple... I clean because I want to live in a clean house, and no one else is going to do it for me.

When I think of God the creator & designer of the Universe for some reason I envision a giant Marble Magic set and us glued to a giant marble, patterned with a globe-print, rolling on a set course to the finale...Not my philosophical stance by any means, but that is an image that I get.