Wayne
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Pastor |
| Location | Florida, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a Christian of Lutheran persuasion on life's pilgrimage. I believe our final safe haven has already been secured for us by the Lord, but there's an interesting journey ahead that leads us in ways we can't begin to imagine. I'm 66, have a dry sense of humor. I am single and content to remain so. I am blessed to be retired after serving as a parish pastor for 38 year in two Florida churches, Our Saviour, Ocala, and Messiah, Miami. I practice centering prayer and am a religious oddity: a Protestant oblate of a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery (St. Leo's). Life is good, and I keep plugging along the path.
"Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ" (The Rule of St. Benedict, 53).
Since, Lord, Thou dost defend us with Thy Spirit, We know we at the end, shall life inherit. Then fancies flee away! I'll fear not what men say, I'll labor night and day to be a pilgrim. -John Bunyan, adpt. Percy Dearmer |
| Interests | Books, Architecture, Art, (looking at it. I can’t paint or draw.), Music, (listening and performing), Theatre, Reader's Theater, Films, Philosophy, Theology, Spirituality, Biblical Studies, Centering Prayer, Lutheranism, History, Lewis Carroll, Algonquin Round Table, Tea, Harry Potter, and lots of stuff that grabs my fancy |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Holiday, Holiday, Laurel & Hardy, Duck Soup, Moonstruck, Mystic Pizza, A Room with a View, Dead Poets Society, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, The Santa Clause, The Polar Express, Metropolitan, 84 Charing Cross Road, A Christmas Story, Educating Rita, Babette’s Feast, A Christmas Carol, Doc Hollywood, Cabaret, The Bishop’s Wife, Indiana Jones,Sister Act, and the corny old versions of, Flash Gordon |
| Favorite music | Early Music, Baroque, Classical, Opera, Choral, Gilbert & Sullivan, older Jazz, New Age, Broadway, Celtic, a little, Blue Grass, Klezmer, Marching Bands, and now and again, Polka |
| Favorite books | Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating, Eugene Peterson, Richard Foster, Kathleen Norris, Susan Howatch, Herman Hesse, Anne Tyler, J.K. Rowling, Jenny Nimmo, Diane Duane, Diana Wynne Jones, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeline L'Engle, Arthur Conan Doyle, P.D. James, Dorothy Sayers, Colin Dexter,Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, |