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Luke 17: 12-19 Lectio Divina

  More on the Three Kernels of Corn   Happy Thanksgiving dear ones! I hope today you are nested in the midst of your family, surrounded by your people and all that abundance. I hope you soak there, sit back and…

Day 17: Thank

It was summer in South Haven, MI. Life was full of fresh blueberries, Kilwin’s ice cream, and white pizza from Venezia brought down to the beach to watch the sunset, but I couldn’t taste any of it. A conflict was escalating…

Day 16: We Need You to be Fully You

Her heart squeezed tight as she stepped out of the silver Honda after the six hour drive. She stretched her legs and willed her heart to stretch too, but felt the familiar anxiety pinch it tight.  She was a newlywed…

Day 5: Sabbath, The Sacrament of Now

We spend so much time fighting with comparisons, don’t we? (I like this ice cream shop back in PA better than that one.) We build a fantasy world comprised of all the places we’ve ever lived or think we’d want to.…

Welcome Home, A Sabbath Blessing

We have been racing and filling and schlepping heavy loads and now… it is a deep breath kind of day, a put up your feet kind of Sabbath, a stop and watch the water flow kind of day.   Praying…

Parenting on Holy Ground

Each one felt like a warm bloody mass of miracle when first placed on my chest all arms and legs and eyes unblinking. Every time.   “I have my own baby!” Madeline jumped up and down beside the hospital bed when she first glimpsed…

How to Get Out of An Auto-pilot Life

My windshield is smeared with salt and grime, striped with my windshield wipers’ attempts to polish the world.  The wiper fluid is frozen and its meager attempts at throwing up liquid just makes the snow on the front of the…

He is risen! Happy Easter Friends

The baskets are stuffed, the Easter outfits laid out on the dining room floor, and the lily’s perfume fills the living room where I am sitting.  Quiet.   Quiet is pure gift in a clergy person’s home during Holy Week,…

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