[Magdalen] High school graduation gift?

[Ann Markle]

If you know they're churchgoing kids.  Otherwise, a bible will end up at
the local library donation box, or the bottom of some other box somewhere.


Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whenever the churches I've been assigned to have HS graduates, I've always
> given such kids a bible, as their gift from the deacon.  I've always chosen
> The Message Bible as it's my favorite bible for personal reading.  It's
> also my choice when I compare and contrast with the NRSV during sermons.
> The modern idiom is great!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Message_%28Bible%29
>
> +++
> Grace & peace,
> Deacon Jon Egger
>
>
>
> *“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who
> has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to
> deceive and overawe the People."(Eugene V. Debs, Anti-War Speech, June 16,
> 1918) *
>
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I do think a nice pen or a nice piece of jewelry would be lovely.
> Perhaps
> > either would eventually get lost, but perhaps not.  I lost the first
> > stainless steel Cross pen I was given, with my name and the year engraved
> > on it.  I've since bought two more of the same pen (didn't have them
> > engraved), and I still think of the original giver each time I use it (or
> > find it, if it's not currently in use -- saw it again just today!).  If
> > there is something you make, even high school grads have an appreciation
> of
> > "original art."  I remember sometime in college when a friend of mine
> gave
> > me an original print that she made in an art class -- I still have it!
> >
> > Ann
> >
> > The Rev. Ann Markle
> > Buffalo, NY
> > ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> > blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
> >
> > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Duh!  Correction: read "Pater" beads for "Ave" beads.  The ones that
> are
> > > fewer.  Most of the beads, blue onyx.  Silver (filigree), one in
> eleven.
> > > Also silver "seed beads" for separators, since they were cord rosaries
> > and
> > > necklace.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/16/15 2:54 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 5/16/15 1:37 PM, Jo Craddock wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I'm sure we've been through this before, but, it's that time again...
> > >>>
> > >>> The daughter of dear friends is graduating from high school. Through
> a
> > >>> long series of events with both families, it's been difficult to keep
> > in
> > >>> touch, but her mother and I were close and very involved in
> children's
> > >>> CE together at the time of graduate's birth, so I'd like to give her
> > >>> something meaningful, long-term, rather than dorm room kitsch. <grin>
> > >>> Suggestions?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> My daughter's three best friend classmates were all graduating from
> high
> > >> school at the same time that she was, and it happened that all three
> of
> > >> them were Roman Catholic, while mine wasn't even an Episcopalian, but
> > >> had stayed with my childhood church, Christian Church, very Protestant
> > >> Fundamentalist.  I was doing a lot of beadwork at the time, and I made
> > >> the other three very beautiful (if I do say so myself) rosaries, Blue
> > >> Onyx beads, Sterling Silver hardware (and Ave beads).  I made my
> > >> daughter a necklace, very similar, with the same beads and separator
> > >> beads, and one of the Ave beads instead of the center Marian medal,
> with
> > >> the crucifix hanging down in front on the then-fashionable "Y"
> > >> configuration, the neck part choker length.  The other girls loved
> > >> theirs, and so did my daughter at first.  Then she went to Christian
> > >> College, and took a lot of crap from her friends there about the
> > >> crucifix, so she didn't ever wear it to school again.  I suppose it
> > >> might still be in her jewelry box now.
> > >>
> > >> Which isn't a lot of help for you, but you might think of some lovely
> > >> bit of jewelry that would _not_ cause problems....
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sibyl Smirl
> > > I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> > > mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> > >
> >
>