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Winter’s Gifts
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I am snowed in – again. Peeking through the frost stenciled inside our storm door, I glimpse huge drifts around and on top of our cars, which unfortunately crouch defenseless against the weather. Yesterday, after 90 minutes of shoveling, I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Let Your Life Speak, letting go, Parker Palmer, winter storms
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Redeeming our Failings
MY JOURNEY Considering that the first 50 years of my life were characterized by depression, confusion, rebellion, and waywardness (love that word, so Prodigal-Son-like!), I’ve been pleasantly surprised that within the last few weeks someone has called me her mentor and two others have officially asked me to be … Continue reading
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Me Watching Me
LIVING AS APPRENTICES In the classes I teach, I’m accustomed to saying that spiritual transformation requires three components: surrender, choice, and feeling safe (i.e. believing that we live in the unshakable kingdom God and no matter what happens to us we are … Continue reading
Being a Person of “Large Leisure”
LIVING AS APPRENTICES This excerpt from a sermon by N. Gordon Cosby, founding minister of The Church of the Saviour in Washington D.C. reminds us that being busy and productive is not the goal of an Apprentice of Jesus: “Way … Continue reading
Living in Occupied Territory
Living As Apprentices I am a political junkie. Therefore I spend a lot of time reading about and listening to political issues, much to the amazement of most of my friends. But spending my intellect on the state of national, and world … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, Christian position on Evil, Dualism, Mere Christianity
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On Rhythms and Rituals
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I’ve been a homebody for weeks now – vacation time and now two feet of snow and the “polar vortex” – which we are calling the frigid air that has covered much of the United States – have given … Continue reading
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Prayer for 2014
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I’ve been teaching a class on the Twelve Steps and Spiritual Formation this winter and will start the class with a new group in early January. (I’m using the book Breathing Under Water by Richard Rohr – … Continue reading
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Tagged powerlessness, Reinhold Niebuhr, serenity prayer, Twelve-step program
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Ringing in the New
LIVING AS APPRENTICES My Christmas decorations are put away, the furniture is re-arranged, the frosted cookies are almost gone. Somehow Advent has already moved into Christmastide; soon it will be Epiphany (Jan. 6). On January 13 we will silently pass into Ordinary Time until Lent. In early … Continue reading
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Tagged Francis Chan, New Year's Day, Richard Rohr, starting over
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