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2015-01-16T09:40:51-08:00

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Going Home By Another Way

Last updated on: January 16, 2015 at 9:40 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

As always, the story of the Wise Ones, the Magi, who usher us into the season of Epiphany, intrigues me with its layers of images, its spare detail and its promise of Light at the end of the journey. The detail that has caught my spirit this year is the very last line in the Matthew 2 account is this: and having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another... Read more

2014-12-20T15:58:25-08:00

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Advent Blue 4: Longing for Light

Last updated on: December 20, 2014 at 3:58 pm By Elizabeth Nordquist

No matter how much I can learn and practice in the dark, I long for Light to shine. Many Advents ago I went to a gathering of other in ministries of spiritual formation in the bleak midwinter. I carried with me some of the dark Advent blues concerning the direction of my ministry and its future –what? where? how? On one evening after seminars all day I became swept up in joy as I listened to a concert of Appalachian... Read more

2014-12-13T08:06:50-08:00

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Advent Blue 3: Longing for Joy

Last updated on: December 13, 2014 at 8:06 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

The Blueness of this Advent leaves us longing for some Joy. And Advent 3 is Gaudete or Rejoice Sunday! It is the week we are invited to savor the singing of Mary, following her ancestor Hannah: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! I cherish these songs of our foremothers, sung when still in the shadow of unknowing, facing a personal future that is fraught with questions, uncertainty and the possibilities of pain and... Read more

2014-12-06T06:35:29-08:00

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Advent Blue 2: Longing for Comfort

Last updated on: December 6, 2014 at 6:35 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

Hearts are breaking all over the world! I see them on the newscast daily, and hear them as I listen to conversations. My own heart breaks for parents, for children, for those who have been given many chances and choose to ignore them, and for those who have been given no chance at all. I grieve for those who have somehow found themselves in harm’s way through no act of their own doing. And I grieve for those who have... Read more

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2014-11-29T09:34:48-08:00

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Advent Blue: Week 1-Longing for God

Last updated on: November 29, 2014 at 9:34 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

Some worshiping communities are using blue as the color for Advent to distinguish it from the traditional purple. The Rev. Eric J. Liles of St Paul’s Episcopal Church says this: Blue represents hope. expectation and heaven…a deep, dark blue is the color that covers us in the dark, cold hours before the dawn. Thus we use deep blue to shade the season of expectation of the dawn of Christ. (Church newsletter) I enter Advent feeling, in the vernacular, blue about... Read more

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2014-11-24T09:38:53-08:00

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Graceful Virtues: A Reflection on the Grace of Yes by Lisa M. Hendey

Last updated on: November 24, 2014 at 9:38 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

It is a gift to discover a companion on the spiritual journey from a tradition different from one’s own. Lisa Hendey is a Roman Catholic; I am a Presbyterian Protestant. Yet in reading her book called The Grace of Yes, I found that there were many places where our paths were similar, if not identical. We both grew up in homes where faith was practiced and taught. We both spent time as full-time caregivers to our children, and we both... Read more

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2014-11-21T09:43:01-08:00

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Two Hopes for Advent: Books that Inspire

Last updated on: November 21, 2014 at 9:43 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

I have been privileged to review two very worthy and helpful books for Advent for the Patheos Book Club. I hope you find them as provocative and charming as I have. An Invitation: Taste and See by Jan Johnson The sacred anticipation of Advent and the joy of Christmastide often seem dimmed and fraught for leaders in the Church because they can’t imagine a new way to come at those familiar stories and themes. Jan Johnson offers a fresh lens... Read more

2014-11-16T06:43:55-08:00

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Invitations on the Journey: Keep Moving

Last updated on: November 16, 2014 at 6:43 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

Often on a journey, geographical or spiritual, I am tempted to say, “This is so beautiful; let’s just stay right here forever!” Santa Fe was one of those spots for me on this latest journey. At the top of a hill is the Museum Plaza, surrounded by striking Native American sculpture, encompassing a red and green brick labyrinth. Blue sky. warm air, a blending of divine and human beauty, good food, and friendly companionship, all made it seem like a... Read more

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Mechtild of Magdeburg

2014-11-07T06:13:32-08:00

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Invitations of the Journey: Reflecting Beauty

Last updated on: November 7, 2014 at 6:13 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

Growing up in my own tradition, I did not realize that Beauty was a spiritual quality. The verse in Scripture concerning beauty with which I was most familiar was in Proverbs 31, and it was interpreted negatively. Describing a capable wife, extended by my tradition to mean any woman, it concludes by saying, “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” When one added to that interpretation a Protestant predilection... Read more

2014-11-05T10:25:01-08:00

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Hopes for Mother and Daughters: A Reflection on Love Will Steer Me True by Jane and Ellen Knuth

Last updated on: November 5, 2014 at 10:25 am By Elizabeth Nordquist

As a mother of an adult daughter who does not share my spiritual practices, I am deeply comforted and delighted to read a book, such as this, in which both mother and daughter seek to keep their love whole while diverging in their trust in and practice of the spiritual traditions in which each of them was raised. Together they have shared a snapshot of a family relationship in which each one is candid, each one acts with integrity, and... Read more

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