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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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Manhunt Driving through the morning’s round of drop-offs the radio tells of man hunting man and I watch as magnolia trees drop great showers of silky, blushing blooms. Spring is the foolish season whose beauty we cannot long endure so the trees, in their gracefulness,...
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When we came for a viewing of the house we live in now, my husband and I were like a pair of young love-birds looking for a place to nest, though we wouldn’t have said it in as many words. After guiding us through the house from bottom to top, the homeowner...
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Holy Saturday’s Work (for that which is already but not yet) Go outside and kneel beside still-sleeping beds. Strip away all that’s dead; the leaves, brown and curled, and the dry, empty stems of last year’s blossoms. Straighten, one-by-one, the...
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Then he said to them, “I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay with me.” Matthew 26:38 Snow fell during my March retreat, swirling, driven white upon the spring-green and brown world. Flat and thin, large flakes like communion...
