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I took the time in the church library while Donna was reshelving books to look for the Articles of Faith from when the church was established. Between services, I said "hello" to Mark,the present minister, who was busy and remarked that we still use the Articles of Faith today, "I know that well." The first minister of the Park Street Church,Boston was Edward Griffin, also the first Phi Beta Kappa student at Yale, and apparently Donna was Phi Beta before I met her. His particular theme was preaching against something referred to as the New Divinity. I was surfing today and found that we are listed by the National Historical Park Service along with our adjacent Granary Burial Ground. The president at the time was James Madison. Below is a historical perspective.
I honestly had to dust the television after coming home from church, but please look and the previous entry to see how its grown- it found the little "love" pillow Donna's grandmother had given her - after sprawling across the floor, over a plastic storage bin and up the side of the tv stand for over five feet, most likely seven; it has sixty five leaves across for two of its ten "vines", most likely one hundread leaves, more likely over one hundread and ten or one hundread and twenty.
It sprawled across the living room floor- over five feet diagnally from a shelf with three drawers, past a night table and a book shelf. It climbed over a plastic storage bin.
ps. there weren't many out of print anniversary cards, but I hope you like the photography.
I owed you a pizza date from Memorial Day, which meant alot under the circumstances, so thank you for going with me to the Atlantic Ocean last night for Fried Clams (now that I've already had Fried Oysters) to watch the wind surfing in the cold rain and and thank you for going tolunch at the cafe (ham and cheese creoes/banana pancakes just so you'll remember) off Tremont Street. Glad there was thunder and lightning twelve years later.
Love,
Scott
I spoke to Reverend Booker this morning and he smiled at my analysis that he delivers the same sermon three times on one SUnday and I mentioned that we might look at the different time slots to compare how they were delivered. Unfortunately, the service that Donna and I attend most regularly has been condensed with the other two and cancelled.
So please accept my personal thank you for that time slot and its more contemporary Christian music. This service and the next was to mark our twelfth anniversary of living together. I can count over six pastors that we have been blessed with during the years during that time slot, and to be honest, I do well with Reverend Booker's theology at present.
So thank you, and if you need a book on Theology, Donna will be either upstairs in the service or at her desk in the Libarary checking out or shelving books.
I included today's service above as an exception to her diary as the music may be changing due to the new church policy of combining seperate services.
I'd write more but the service is presently on our television and Donna is singing.
I also hope that I am accurate as a student in wishing a meaningful Shavuot, the time of giving and perhaps recieving the Torah on Mount Sinai. In any event, it signfies entering a sacred covenant with God and a being present to the Promises of God. The speaking of the Ten Commandments aloud is a revelation, perhaps a theophany.
I had a class today on the Old and New Testaments with a visiting divinity professor. Took notes. If you look closer at room, it is adjacent to a burial ground from the revolutionary war, the church having been erected in 1809. The graves of Benjamin Franklin's parents are visibile from the window.
My wife Donna is at her desk, working at the library, as usual.
