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Category Archives: Living as Apprentices
Living Creatively
In June of 2015, I wrote about my husband’s love for blueberry muffins and what the task of making them every day taught me. My husband finally had his fill of blueberry muffins, so I stopped making them. This week, … 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
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Tagged prophets, spiritual direction, the Church
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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
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Tagged Becoming like Jesus, disruption, Inward/Outward, Kayla McClurg, Mark Cuban
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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
“He Restores My Soul”
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul; he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake” Psalm 23: … Continue reading
A Reminder to Hold all Things Loosely
This blog is home to nearly 550 posts. The post below first appeared in October, 2012. I am sharing it again because this is such an important spiritual discipline. A friend of mine keeps a small bowl of sand on … Continue reading
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The Power of One
One of the MacArthur Foundation’s latest genius grants has been awarded to Rebecca Richards-Kortum, a professor at Rice University who has co-founded a hands-on engineering training program which challenges undergraduates to solve medical problems in the developing world. The grant … Continue reading
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Tagged MacArthur Genius grants, medical devices, Rebecca Richards - Kortum. Malawi
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