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Becoming a Wounded Healer – Part 2
“Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning. You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken my off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy. Psalm 30;5 b; 11-12 (NRSV) What exactly is a wounded … Continue reading
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Tagged forgiveness, Henri Nouwen, Jeremiah 33, wounded healer
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Becoming a Wounded Healer – Part 1
“Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning. You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken my off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy. Psalm 30;5 b; 11-12 (NRSV) What does the word broken … Continue reading
Redeeming Time
An octagonal wood-framed clock hangs on a wall in my bedroom. I bought it for my mother long ago; when she died, I claimed it as my own. Because it is hard to hang up, I don’t change this clock … Continue reading
Rewiring our Inputs
The following quote from Seth Godin’s blog reminds us that we do have control over how we view our lives. “Rewiring our inputs” is the same as choosing hope, I suspect. “When things get a little better every day, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Hope, Psalm 33, Seth Godin
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“I Owe my Soul to the Company Store”
Recently I was the only white female in the room (aside from the staffers for the event.) My husband Fred and dozens of other black men and women (and two or three white men) had answered the call to Flint, … Continue reading
“The Opposite of Poverty is Justice” – Part 2
I’m reading Bryan Stevenson’s book Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption. It is both brutally honest and extraordinarily encouraging. As Desmond Tuto says, “Bryan Stevenson is America’s young Nelson Mandela, a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryan Stevenson, capital punishment, injustice, Just Mercy, mass incarceration, mercy
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“The Opposite of Poverty is Justice” – Part 1
Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University Law School. He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme … Continue reading
Posted in Living as Apprentices
Tagged Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative, Hope, Just Mercy
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