Forgiving Collateral Damage-III

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Mothers Who Do Everything

Last updated on: January 11, 2015 at 3:08 pm By Elizabeth Nordquist

I am sending a shout out to those who have been formed in Spirit by mothering, and faithfully pass it on by the way they practice mothering! There may be no more active and steadfast facilitators of resurrection and new life than those who accept the calling of mothering and inhabit it, not only for the sake of those in need of care, but find in the vocation itself, the place where the Holy meets them, loves them, shapes... Read more

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Mothering

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Practicing Resurrection

Last updated on: January 11, 2015 at 3:07 pm By Elizabeth Nordquist

Wendell Berry makes me sit right up in my chair when he writes! In this season when I am listening hard for signs of Easter, his words from The Mad Farmer’s Almanac are really provocative: So friends, each day do something That won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing… Ask the questions that have no answer. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable… Be like a fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice... Read more

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Renewing the World!

Last updated on: January 11, 2015 at 3:07 pm By Elizabeth Nordquist

It has been hard this week to ferret out the audible signs of Resurrection! People I love are in pain from illness, loss, and grief. The Big Picture–world peace! political fragmentation! callous indifference to pain and oppression! systemic dysfunction and venality!– leaves my eyes “astygmatized,” my ears straining, when I am searching for new life and hope and joy. I remember a passage from Roberta Bondi, now Professor Emeritus of Church History, from Candler School of Theology, in her biographical reflection... Read more

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Easter Listening

Last updated on: January 11, 2015 at 3:06 pm By Elizabeth Nordquist

The walking I did for my Lenten practice opened my ears. I heard such different things depending on where and when I walked. (And I am walking still!) Bird songs were amazing in their variety and cadence. Wind rushes ebbed and flowed, seeming to be in sync with the the clouds and the sun. And the walking gave me space to listen in my heart to sacred texts. As I listened to the Easter texts followed by the post-Easter texts,... Read more

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Quiet Eastertide

Last updated on: January 11, 2015 at 3:05 pm By Elizabeth Nordquist

Lent was very intense for me–great attention to practices, increased awareness of the suffering of the world, ongoing wrestling with what this walking in faithfulness to Jesus means. It is a grace to have completed that part of the journey for this year, and have a silent Holy Saturday to ponder in anticipation of what new thing God might be doing again in the world and in me, and then to enter the joy of Easter Sunday. I was asked to... Read more