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Live off the Grid?
This week I wondered for the first time if it might be easier living “off the grid.” Wouldn’t it be more comfortable not knowing about Middle East intrigue, teeming refugee camps, and capsized boats full of desperate immigrants? Wouldn’t it … Continue reading
Posted in Living as Apprentices
Tagged compassion, cops and black males, Freddie Gray, Jesus, off the grid, suffering
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Suffering Breaks our Hearts
We are surrounded by news of suffering and violence. (If we are surrounded only by the news and not by the actual suffering and violence, we should be down on our knees in gratitude.) The pain everywhere seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Hope Changes Everything
Tagged Hope, Mary Oliver, On Being, Parker Palmer, world-wide suffering
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WHO AM I WHEN MY BODY FAILS ME? – Guest Blog by Anonymous
Who am I when my body fails me? For quite awhile I was someone I didn’t recognize. When I got up in the morning, in the daylight hours, and when I went to bed at night, I had become a … Continue reading
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Tagged God's faithfulness, infertility
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Choosing Abundance
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; “I came that they [the sheep] may have life, and have it abundantly” John 10: 10 (NRSV). Were you raised in an atmosphere of abundance or scarcity? In my family, while finances were … Continue reading
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Tagged abundance, Jesus, scarcity, Stephen R. Covey
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Who Am I When My Body Fails Me? – A Matter of Style
Phillip Simmons was diagnosed with ALS in 1993 when he was 35. He was a husband, father, and professor. At the start of a promising literary career he suddenly had to learn the art of dying. Nine years later he … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, ALS, Learning to Fall, Philip Simmons
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Black People Matter
A few nights ago my husband received a call from his sister, reporting that a young male cousin had been murdered. The next morning I pondered the deaths in the generation of young black males in his extended family: two … Continue reading
Who am I when my Body Fails Me – Guest Blog (Anonymous)
Our Christian faith teaches that we are spiritual beings and that our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit. It also teaches that God created us in God’s image and declared His creation to be good. We derive much of … Continue reading
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Tagged "It is well with my soul", pain and suffering, Psalm 46
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