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One of Karen's favorite quotes is: "Whatever job we get and whatever task we are assigned can serve as a container for grace" (Eugene Peterson in "Practical Resurrection"). We pray that the words and sentences on this blog may also serve as "containers of grace" for its readers.
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Going Deeper with God – “Haven’t You Heard?” (Is. 40)
Eugene Peterson’s book “Eat this Book” teaches us to chew on a passage of scripture, digest it, and then put it to use in practical ways. Our Christian fathers and mothers called this process Lectio Divina. These selected verses from Isaiah … Continue reading
Spiritual Direction
Words tumble unbidden as I share this gray Novembery sliver of sadness rooted in my absence from the Church. He knows me so well; kind eyes gaze kindly into my pain. “You are a prophet,” he says with rare firmness. “Prophets can’t live … Continue reading
Posted in Karen's journey, Living as Apprentices
Tagged prophets, spiritual direction, the Church
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From My Reading
“You need to be liberated. Don’t carry over experiences from the past. In fact, don’t carry over good experiences from the past either. Learn what it means to experience something fully, then drop it and move on to the next moment, uninfluenced … Continue reading
Posted in From My Reading...
Tagged liberation, separation, transformation, Weavings
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Being a Disrupter
Recently I heard a new business term used by Mark Cuban (one of the sharks on the TV show Shark Tank). After researching the word, I learned that it has been “current” for some time now. The term is: disruption. In … Continue reading
Posted in Living as Apprentices
Tagged Becoming like Jesus, disruption, Inward/Outward, Kayla McClurg, Mark Cuban
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My Once in a Lifetime Life – My Friendship with Bela
“My Once-in-a-Lifetime Life” is a series of occasional blogs written by Joy in reflecting on her time as a Christian missionary with three young children in the mid-2000’s. This post celebrates the friendship of two unlikely friends, a young American missionary and … Continue reading
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Tagged Communism, faberakas, friendship, Hungary, Jesse tree
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Going Deeper with God – “From Whom All Blessings Flow” (Psalm 103)
Eugene Peterson’s book “Eat this Book” teaches us to chew on a passage of scripture, digest it, and then put it to use in practical ways. Our Christian fathers and mothers called this process Lectio Divina. Psalm 103 encourages us to … Continue reading
Posted in Going Deeper with God
Tagged Praising God, Psalm 103, Working Preacher website
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Lab Girl
A journey can be an actual trip or it can be a pathway to spiritual or emotional growth. It can describe the change of a relationship, the sharing or ending of a marriage, the details of a career, the recognition of … Continue reading
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Tagged Creation Care, female scientists, geobiology. trees, Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
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People of the Lie
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to … Continue reading
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