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“I told you about this, right?” he asks, “About how I don’t breathe?” He said it casually as we stood together washing and cooking in the kitchen. “No,” I said, with a rueful smile, “you didn’t tell me you stopped...
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I am still running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were...
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A few weeks ago a dear friend gave us a computer – out of the blue. We really needed a second computer, but couldn’t begin to figure out how we could buy one. Then, BAM, just like that, before we’d hardly wrapped our minds around it, the problem was...
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I finally made it up to the attic this morning to dig out my advent books, among them, Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas, a book of essays and sermons by a wide variety of authors. My on-going favorite is one by Henri Nouwen entitled,...
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We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait . . . Romans 8:22-25 Anyone who’s been there knows how it is,...
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Kneeling on the dirty living room rug, the twins swarm and climb on my back, my legs, my shoulders. With focused determination I slowly piece together a ridiculously complicated floor puzzle. Over time a large smiling farmer perches happily atop a John Deere...
