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SPECIAL  EVENT !!!

Improvisation for Strings: On Monday, the 19th of February, 2001, a very special teaching event is going to take place in Arizona ... a participatory workshop for *all* interested string players (and those who *teach* string players!) ... teacher: Eugene Friesen, world-renowned cellist with The Paul Winter Consort and Trio Globo ... Eugene also teaches improvisation, and directs the improvising string orchestra, at the world's leading school for jazz, the Berklee College of Music, in Boston.   Bring your instruments!

[click here for information about the program]

WinCrafting Home Page & Site Outline

Are you winning right now?   Are you winning at a profound level in every area of your life which is truly important to you?    Do you think of your life in terms of a constant stream of miracles ... or something less than that?   Scripture repeatedly tells us to "Praise the Lord in all things."   Do you live a life which is filled with Praise?   Are you thankful for ... and joyful about ... everything which is in your life?  Or do you tend to be a font of complaints?

What about the people around you?   Are they winning at a profound level in their lives?

How effective are you?   When you participate with others, does the level of profound winning in their lives tend to increase?

In order for us to experience profound levels of winning in our lives, there are things which we must know.   This site is about that knowledge.   There are also things ... truly essential things ... which are necessary to the experience that our lives are filled with purpose, such that our presence matters.  This site is about those essential things.

I.  Introducing the WinCrafting™ Possibility

• WinCrafting™ is an emerging possibility in life; it is also an emerging profession.  It is profoundly creative, instead of reactive.   It does not aspire to "managing the unwanted," but rather to creating the things which people deeply hope for and aspire to!   The focus of WinCrafting™ is the emerging miraculous, the possibility that we live in the midst of great beauty (whether or not we can see that beauty in any given moment), and that the miraculous is always taking form in and through us, as well as around us!   WinCrafting™ advocates that we take part in that processs, instead of some lesser process!   In that sense, WinCrafting™ is not interested in "reasonable" results.   It is interested in the very most which is available, whether in a specific situation, such as a "conflict," or in the construction of an extraordinarily beautiful life, over time, by every child of God!   As a profession, WinCrafting™ is in the process of replacing the reactive professions, such as law and therapy, especially in the relationship of those professions to "conflict."   (It also provides a profoundly effective alternative to the reactive approaches usually taken by traditional medical practices, in that WinCrafting™ addresses the creation of health, instead of management of ill health.)

• Introduction to the WinCrafting™ Possibility and Profession and Invitation to Apply to the WinCrafting™ Certification Programs

• Course Description for the WinCrafting™Certification Programs ... ["Fundamentals" track; "Professional" track]

II.  HOME*schooling:  Education "On Purpose"

• HOME*schooling is the process of discerning a child's *purpose* (or your own) and educating *that*!!!    Have you ever heard the phrase "Get a Life?"   Well, that phrase derives from a culture in which it is not clear to everyone that God gives every person a purpose.   We have a life ... but most of us haven't been taught to notice that fact, and to live in a manner consistent with that fact!   Do you know what your purpose is?  How about the purpose of each of your children?   Until a person knows her purpose, or his purpose, it can be very difficult to make effective choices about many of the things which are very important in life.   For example:  What should each of our children study?   What career should our children pursue?   What relationships should our children aspire to (because those relationships would be truly forwarding of our children's purpose)?   Of course, we cannot lead our children to places where we, ourselves, do not go.  Accordingly, it becomes imperative, if our children are to live purpose-filled lives, that we engage in the process of discernment of our own purpose, and that we live our lives in a manner consistent with our purpose!    WinCrafting™ is about leading the lives which we are meant to live!

• The PURPOSE-filled Home*schooler's Main Page: We give thanks to God for giving each of His children a purpose

• A HOME*schooling Inquiry: What is Your Child's PURPOSE?

• Education "On Purpose":  Questions to Ask Yourself

• A Death, "Grabbing Back Our Lives," and (of course!) HOME*schooling!  This article is about Polly, our extraordinarily courageous "daughter # 2."  One bright and sunny afternoon, when she was 14, she walked away from the public school she had been attending, and its "one size fits all" curriculum, and took responsibility for her own education!   Read about the way in which she began to discern her purpose, and then began to express that purpose by immersing herself in the serious study of photography.  Discover how her passion for photography led her, at the age of 17, to travel to India ... and then to travel, via hundreds of hours on buses and trains, all through India ... from the very southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, to India's northernmost reaches, all the way up to the Himalayas!

• Polly's offering ... accompanied by her prayer that you will be blessed by seeing some of the images which our Lord has allowed her to share with you.   Our family gives thanks to God for giving Polly the soul and "eye" of a photographer, and for allowing us to participate with her education in such a way that her time has been well and wisely used, and her gift has been profoundly nurtured, such that her purpose has begun to manifest and bear fruit at such an early age:

• My Brother?
• Lift, The French Quarter, New Orleans
• My Brother, who is also my brother
• At Kokila's Pediatric Clinic in India  [a series of three photographs]
• Not Everyone Entered the Building
• Our Sisters?  [a series of three photographs]
• Walking Through India  [a series of five photographs]
• Not Just a Market!  [a series of five photographs]
• Imagine Walking Into This Place
• Learning Something New About a Healthy Heart  [a series of four photographs]
• Family: Ramesh (beyond "Cardiology"); Kokila (Pediatrician, committed to children's health); Bina (whose voice redefines "song") ... [a series of six photographs]
• Contemplating a Future
• Six Stories Down to Water Under the Dry Earth's Surface
• Water as Holy in India  [a series of four photographs]
• A Very Special Mother
• A Gentle Man at the Foot of a Statue of Gandhi
• Our Brother?   India's Hope Looks Out Towards Us

III.  WHAT MUST A PERSON KNOW, if profound winning is to be their lot in life?

• Well, of course, it is totally important to spend lots and lots of time with Scripture!   While there may not be enough time in a single human lifetime to learn all that Scripture can teach us ... we can aspire to the development and deepening of our personal relationship with our Lord, and to the expansion of our appreciation of some of the really fundamental things, such as salvation, faith, God's grace ... and, of course, love!

• From the WinCrafting™ point of view, there is a question which tends to be really helpful, whether one is hoping for the emergence of the miraculous in a particular situation, or in the development of one's life over time.  That question is:

*What Do You REALLY Want?*

• It's amazing how infrequently people ask that question!   But even when that question does get asked, at least in some form, quite a bit can get in the way of our arrival at the most powerful possible answers!   It's a simple fact that, in order to really answer a question like that, there are some things which a person must know!   In the absence of that knowledge, there's a serious tendency for things not to go as well as we'd like!   Now, of course, there are lots of ways a person can go about obtaining the necessary knowledge.   We offer the following as an efficient ... and, hopefully, relatively enjoyable ... way to obtain some of the knowledge we're talking about!   What follows is a link to the contents page of a book which has been being written for a while.   You'll find a few pages of introduction, followed by the eight chapters which have been completed so far.    We hope you will find the contents edifying, and also useful!

• Contents Page, Manuscript of *What Do You REALLY Want?*, a book which is still a work in progress (your comments, questions, etc., are welcome and invited!)

• We truly do welcome your participation with us concerning the things you read in the manuscript (or, for that matter, any of the other things which this site is about)!  Feel free to drop us an e-mail, or write to us at our "snail mail" address!  There have been so many people, over the years, who have participated with us in the development of the WinCrafting™ domain, and they have contributed an extraordinary amount to what has been becoming available to our Brothers and Sisters!  So ... feel free to join in!!!