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Last Friday, I took a few minutes at the beginning of class to ask my Christian Spirituality students how events like the school shooting in Parkland, FL impacts their lives. “What’s this like for you guys?” I asked. “I know...
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Prayer . . . is listening to the voice that calls us “My Beloved.” – Henri Nouwen My husband wakes, alone, in the early morning dark. While the rest of us sleep, he lets the dog out, rekindles a fire in the wood stove, and turns on the coffee...
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Photo by Artificial Photography on Unsplash God and I went to the thrift store last week. It’s was the first day my kids were back in school. Although I often go thrifting with the aim of stocking my kids’ closets, I breezed right through...
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Summer hit our house like a freight train when the kids got off the bus last Friday at 1:15. It’s all good, but intense. I’m still writing, but with preaching this Sunday and preparing for next week’s (!) writing retreat, I didn’t...
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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...
