http://www.jamaicaabare.com/ Copyright 2009 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:14:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.01 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Memories: Haiti trip Intentional living trip to Lake Arrowhead Sedona Spiritual retreat for Easter Raleigh Art center with Jessica Kansas City trip-Rachel, Stallbaumers, Shakespeare Festival, The White Haitian, Custard 30th birthday soiree LSAT study Salsa Dancing with Brad, Chris, and... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/01/highlights-of-2008.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/01/highlights-of-2008.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:14:17 -0800 Reading Beyond Mountains, in the midst of a semester of teaching seven classes and applying to law school, I am challenged by the way I seem to just be responding to the loudest demand of the moment rather than intentionally... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/01/on-autopilot.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/01/on-autopilot.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:29:10 -0800 Although Jim Wallis' The Great Awakening had many a controversial topic and compelling prescription, the two questions I am left with after finishing are as follows: A personal question: Chapter 11 starts with this story- "One evening an old Cherokee... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/11/awakening-a-personal-and-publi.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/11/awakening-a-personal-and-publi.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:01:03 -0800 So I am a week away from finding out my LSAT score and so making the voluntary, or perhaps not so voluntary decision of determining where the energies of the next few years of my life will be directed. This... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/10/trusting.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/10/trusting.html Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:55:56 -0800 A fabulous intellectual friend of mine gave me a book for my 30th birthday called Waiting for God by Simone Weil. Each morning’s reading left me between concluding that this woman was a mystic who had a closer contact with... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/09/simone-weil.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/09/simone-weil.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:24:50 -0800 So when do we start doing something radical about poverty? Last night as I unloaded our $120 worth of groceries for the week, and mentally compiled my list of things to buy at target today I concluded that perhaps when... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/09/doing-something.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/09/doing-something.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:22:45 -0800 One of my most favorite things about living in downtown Los Angeles between skid row and bunker hill, is how the people you walk by on your way to wherever, are just as likely to be industry executives as incapacitated... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/09/dependent-or-selfsufficient.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/09/dependent-or-selfsufficient.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:19:16 -0800 As my summer freedom draws to a close the week before classes begin, three images make me smile about the last three months: Out on the porch with relatives on a sticky night in Kansas content, carefree, and crazy about... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/08/summer-images.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/08/summer-images.html Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:08:36 -0800 I am almost a little embarrassed about enjoying Anne Lamont's Plan B Further Thoughts on Faith She is not the best writer- though I will admit that her style is unique; I don't agree with her political angst, and yet... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/08/ann-lamont.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/08/ann-lamont.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:57:23 -0800 I spent the past couple of weeks observing life at the Union Rescue Mission's legal aid clinic run by a Pepperdine law professor and her students. In my journey toward law school I wanted to see how people are using... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/08/legal-aid.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/08/legal-aid.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:35:33 -0800 Reading Brennan Manning is always a penetrating time of invitation toward heart transformation. Although I do not generally read books twice, I was invited to lead a book study on Abba’s Child Abba's Childand am so grateful I did. It... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/07/blames-opportunity.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/07/blames-opportunity.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:16:02 -0800 The other night I was talking to a group of pastors who were talking about stories of God doing supernatural miracles in other countries- including raising the dead. Then, as inevitably happens the conversation turned toward to desire for God... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/07/raising-the-dead.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/07/raising-the-dead.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:06 -0800 Every time I have turned on the news lately - admittedly this usually only happens once or twice a week when on the treadmill- the top story focuses on our economic crisis. From economics professors to cooking experts I am... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/07/our-economic-crisis.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/07/our-economic-crisis.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:13:46 -0800 near this neighborhood and hearing countless stories from the homeless and those that work on their behalf I do not disagree with the latter half of this statement, though I lament the first. My sadness does not result from self-... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/07/free-will-diminishes-compassio.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/07/free-will-diminishes-compassio.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:12:26 -0800 When I was invited to join the board for the Hollywood Urban project in 2006, I thought I was way out of my league. Then I walked through changing our model, joining an amazing organization called DOOR, after which a... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/06/on-the-board.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2008/06/on-the-board.html Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:54:56 -0800