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December 2014

December 06, 2014

Advent Blue 2: Longing for Comfort

Hearts are breaking all over the world! I see them on the newscast daily, and...

August 2014

August 23, 2014

Blessing–an Active Verb!

I know that I am blessed! Early in my life my younger brother and I...

August 06, 2014

Being Displaced

I have been tempted to whinge and to fuss about all the chaos that this...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

The Accompanist

My main identity as a teenager was that of an accompanist. In church and at...

April 2014

April 05, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces: Loving the World-Lent V

My early beginnings taught me to distrust the world. I spent some years of my...

December 2013

December 21, 2013

Preparing the Way: Loving

Advent IV: A new hymnal introduces an Advent hymn new to me: Rejoice, rejoice take...

December 01, 2013

Preparing the Way: Speaking Comfort

Advent Begins: Week I I have been wondering how to take the Advent charge to...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

Speaking the Truth for Love

Reflections on The Dave Test by Frederick W. Schmidt I welcomed this book into my...

October 13, 2013

Hurts and Slights

It happens in the gathering of the faithful episodically, but regularly enough to have to...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

Mapping Our Lives: Reviewing “The Geography of Memory”

In my reading one of my beloved teachers-from-books, Joyce Rupp, I find these words in...

September 03, 2013

How the Light Gets In

My "summer" ended with my reading the long-awaited publication of the Louise Penny mystery, How...

July 2013

July 14, 2013

Acquainted with Sorrow

Since my summer practice is to be present, I cannot avoid being present to the...

April 2013

April 20, 2013

Eastertide III-V: Going Places

The post-Easter stories of the gospels are about moving out. Jesus tells his loved ones...

January 2013

January 12, 2013

A Lens of Compassion

It is January, bleak midwinter of many spirits, if not in all of our climates....