Tim Youmans:
CLASS OF 1987
East High SchoolClass of 1987
Cheyenne, WY
Tim's Story
Tim is from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Tim's schools include East High School. Tim later attended Oklahoma Baptist University (American History, English) .
Music Tim likes includes A Collection of Pilgrims, Ragamuffins and Other Peculiar Treasures, by Uncle Milty's Funtime String Band and Musical Revue. Books Tim likes include John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Strangers and Sojourners, Revival Folk Music Novel by Scott Alarik. Movies Tim likes include Superman Returns, The School Of Rock, Children of Men. TV shows Tim likes include Way Too Early with Willie Geist, Modern Family, The Rachel Maddow Show.
One of Tim's favorite quotes is:"Jesus must have had a sense of humor for so many people to have listened to him. --Aaron Sorkin
Celtic Christians didnât fancy the classic Christian symbol of the dove for the Holy Spirit â a serene little bird cooing and fluttering from the heavens. Those crazy Celts had a totally different take on the character of the Holy Spirit: They experienced the Spirit as uncontrollable, something more like a wild gooseâa big and noisy, totally unignorable, take-up-some-serious-personal-space wild goose. They felt that while the coo of a dove may be sweet and calming, the strident honk of a goose fit the character of the Holy Spirit much better. Strong and challengingâ and even a bit scary â the early Christians of Britain sensed that a wild goose came a lot closer than a dove to represent how Godâs Spirit can be a bit demanding and unsettling. âSusan Leo
The rainbow is God's reminder that the next time he destoys us it will be by fire. --Luke and Chelsea Argo
Hating is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. --dunno
"May God give you the grace never to sell yourself short,
the grace to risk something big for something good,
grace to remember that the world is too dangerous for anything but truth, and too small for anything but love.
So may God take your minds and think through them;
May God ...Expand for more
take your lips and speak through them;
And may God take your hearts and set them on fire."
--William Sloane Coffin (adapted from a Scottish Book of Prayer.)
The last time I saw Jesus
I was drinkinâ bloody maryâs in the South
in a bar room in New Orleans
rinsinâ out the bad taste in my mouthâ¦
There is all this untouched beauty
the light the dark both running through meâ¦
Pour me a glass of wine,
talk deep into the night, who knows what weâll findâ¦
Iâm not letting go of God, Iâm just losing my gripâ¦
--Over the Rhine
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things
From Poet Pedro Arrupe:
Nothing is more practical than finding God,
that is, than falling in love
in a quite absolute, final way
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination,
will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you will do with your evenings,
how you will spend your weekends,
what you read,
who you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in love,
stay in love,
and it will decide everything.
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." Karl Barth".
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