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My participation in Oasis’ Journey into Silence began with two days and nights of prayer, silence and solitude spent journaling, wandering and re-collecting myself. Then I returned home to the ocean of intensity, chaos and noise that typifies life with four...
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Brennan Manning, the beloved author of The Raggamuffin Gospel died this past Friday, April 12. I never read the Raggamuffin Gospel, but I did somehow stumble onto one of Manning’s later books, Abba’s Child. His gentle yet piercing...
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“They crucified two rebels with him, one on his left and one on his right.” Matthew 27:38 * * * * * My 18 month-old boys saunter through the house with swaggering bravado like two...
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I wrote an essay recently in which I described laughter as a form of prayer and this got me thinking about Sarah’s laughter at the news that she was going to bear a son. The following story is based, loosely on the story of God visiting Abraham and...
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He wasn’t quite three when we told him we were expecting twins. I still carried him on my hip into the daycare he attended twice a week; I hung his coat and put on his shoes and treated him like the baby he wasn’t until I found out the twins were coming. ...
