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God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love, and love is like a fisherman’s hook . . .” Meister Eckhart Recently, a friend I respect deeply talked with me about a job opening. He told me he knew I could do the job and that he would support...
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The rain this morning sounds like sleet. It’s the Monday after Resurrection day. Plundered Easter baskets spew plastic grass on these old wood floors and the hollow chocolate bunnies have lost their ears and faces. The oldest boy is sick, again, even...
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This post is loosely based on Luke 19:28-40, the gospel story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. In preparing to preach on the passage this Sunday, I decided to spend some time inside the passage, imagining what it might have been like. This story is...
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Half-awake, deep under a layer of blankets, I hear him cry out in his dark, cold room at the end of the hall. “Ya-Yuh? Ya-yuh!” he calls, pausing to wait for his brother’s reply. Answering silence is followed by thump, patter, then the squeak of his...
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Photo Credit In the rush between dinner and dessert, in the harried press to Get-These-Kids-to-Bed, four-year-old Isaiah remembers. Running through the house, he shouts, “Guys! We need to do our yeaves!” // My family is growing leaves again this...
