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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: March 2017
Can You Hear their Cry? – by Guest Blogger, Coral Swieringa
“For the Lord your God…loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Deut, 10:18-19) I had seen them in Nokomis last year in the very same … Continue reading
Posted in To Act Justly
Tagged a future and a hope, immigrants, osprey, President Trump's directive on immigration
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From My Reading
“We lose ourselves in striving to become people we imagine to be the right kind of people, pleasing to God, rather than simply being who we are. We strive after what might not be ours to do rather than submitting … Continue reading
Posted in From My Reading...
Tagged courage, love at all cost, submitting to God, worship
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Lent 2017: Not What We Will Give Up, But What We Will Live For
“This Lent needs to be not what you will give up, but what you will live for. Not how you might demonstrate your piety, but how you might live in true obedience to God. Not what you will prove, but … Continue reading
Posted in Lent 2017 - What Will We Live For?
Tagged being servants, Lent, self-giving love, spiritual disciplines
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A Hard Life
“You have had a hard life,” she said. I deflected the comment. Later, musing in the early morning, I had to agree. I, like most people, have had a hard life. I have made bad choices. I have made choices influenced … Continue reading
Posted in journeys, Karen's journey
Tagged Jesus, learning from life, life in the Kingdom of God, making choices, The Serenity Prayer
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Going Deeper with God – Encountering Tempation (Matthew 4: 1-11)
In Eat this Book, Eugene Peterson teaches us to chew on a passage of scripture, digest it, and put it to use in practical ways. Our Christian fathers and mothers called this process Lectio Divina. This passage tells the story of how Jesus … Continue reading
Posted in Going Deeper with God
Tagged Dependence on God, Jesus battles the devil, temptation, Working Preacher website
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Living as Apprentices 