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Harvesting Joy: Surprises From My Photo Journal
On the coldest day of winter, in a season of grief, I was surprised by joy in my camera roll!
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Tracy And The Cost of Empathy
Though Tracy often revealed the best in people, unfortunately, she also revealed the worst too. Sometimes people did not choose Tracy’s invitation into empathy.
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Invitations From A Dog
We lost our service dog yesterday. Grief evaporated all my words. And then the magnitude of her beautiful life began to return to me with cascades of words, stories, and realizations.
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Measures Of A Year
What does living life in the kingdom of heaven look like? It is an abundance of ordinary days that add up to one extraordinary life lived in love.
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One Last Pause
During this Christmas season, I invite you to slow down with me and wonder about the familiar stories we read over and over.
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The Art Of Waiting
Advent. This season returns us to the practice of waiting. Christ came into the world once. He promises to come again. Advent reminds us that we are waiting for him to come again.
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The Slow Way Of Advent
I love the way Advent creeps slowly into our lives, inviting us in to the waiting.
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Blueberry Tea
The liturgical calendar helps us hold time accurately. It reveals the patterns of God’s kingdom. All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day remind us that faith that was alive in the past lives on today. What might seem lost is absolutely not lost in the long arc of God’s restorative work. Exactly a month ago, on…
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Sixpence in your Shoes: November
Something old, new, borrowed, and blue. November’s book offerings!
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And a Sixpence in Your Shoe
I’m grateful for books. For reading. Good books grow with us and point us to what’s true in the world and how we fit in it. What book made you a reader? What book helped you learn about yourself?