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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...

April 01, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces: Loving my Neighbors-Lent IV

The house next door is vacant. I confess that I am glad. The neighbor who...

March 2014

March 22, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces: Making Joyful Noise–Lent III

I am so blessed to have been raised in a family, a faith tradition and...

March 15, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces: Lent II-Walking a Labyrinth

I am revisiting places where I have experienced Grace as a Lenten practice this year,...

March 08, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces: Lent 1-Silence

I have felt overwhelmed with the number and variety of Lenten resources that have come...

March 20, 2013

Lent 5 Hanging On

A parable had been unfolding in my front yard as I have been blogging this...

March 13, 2013

Lent 4: Paying Attention

What all this clearing and cleaning and sorting of spaces during Lent is doing is...

March 06, 2013

Lent 3 Sorting Memories

The clearing out of spaces continues this third week of Lent. It continues to be...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Lent 2: Coming Clean

The clearing out of my spaces for Lent continues, and as it does, the realization...

February 19, 2013

Lent 1: Creating Space by Letting Go

My chosen Lenten practice this year is to give myself to clearing out one space...

February 12, 2013

Traveling Companions

Tomorrow we begin a Lenten journey. Following a model of Jesus and a tradition of...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Walking the Light of Holy Week.

As I begin to walk the last lap of Lenten practice, I am prodded by...

March 22, 2012

Still Walking…in Faith Week 5 of Lent

I keep walking, but in this week of Lent, I struggle with the attempt. Daylight...

March 15, 2012

A Love Walk–Week 4 of Lent

I have walked half my way through Lent. The words from the King James Version...

March 08, 2012

Spirit Walking–Week 3 of Lent

"Keep walking!" says the Spirit; so I do. I am challenged by the convergence of...

March 01, 2012

Walking Anew-Week 2 of Lent

So I began walking as my primary Lenten practice; one day it was my labyrinth,...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

The Lenten Walk

"Jesus walked this lonesome valley/he had to walk it by himself/O nobody else could walk...