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(I call this picture “Converse in the Wild”) slow down, just be be still be present listen to, and dwell in, what is here, now, this moment what love? what fear? and what possible doorway between the two? (grace, always, is the...
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I started painting three years ago because our new-old farm house had large wall spaces; wide, paneled surfaces. I started painting because we couldn’t afford to buy art to hang. Driving home from the grocery store one day with the twins buckled in to...
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Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? Or if the child asks for fish, will give a snake? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good...
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During Seminary, another student and I, interned at a tiny, historic, Methodist church in New Jersey. She was Methodist, I was not; but we were both welcomed into the fold in equal measure. The congregation was small and aged and the thing they appreciated...
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The Communion with God is simple, so we will not be dazzled; so we can eat and drink His love and still go about our lives; so our souls will burn slowly rather than blaze. . . . the Last Supper did not take place on one night in one room, and to eat God’s...
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You have to return to the tomb to experience resurrection. Return to the place where once you knew without doubt all hope was gone, the last dying gasp of breath expelled. Then silence, stillness and the great tearing open of sky and earth. The first sign...