Tag Archives: Kayla McClurg

2016, Crossing the Threshold – “Become the Light”

Posted on January 8, 2016 by livingasapprentices

We have crossed the threshold from 2015 to 2016. We are on the brink, at the dawn, on the verge of a new year.  As singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer says, “At a threshold there’s often a moment where what is old … Continue reading →

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From My Reading

Posted on October 30, 2015 by livingasapprentices

“Abundance does not happen automatically. It is created when we have the sense to choose community, to come together to celebrate and share our common store. Whether the scarce resource is money or love or power or words, the true … Continue reading →

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Our One Thing

Posted on October 23, 2015 by livingasapprentices

“What is our one thing? Of all that keeps us from wholeheartedly following him, what most blocks us and gives us grief? What do we possess that, in truth, possesses us? Likely it’s something good in right measure, but something we have come … Continue reading →

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The Power of Crumbs

Posted on August 20, 2015 by livingasapprentices

“We can devote ourselves to striving after success and popularity, or we can notice the least likely to succeed parts of ourselves—What? All you have is one little boy with a few loaves and fish?—and imagine them new. Our child heart is open; it offers … Continue reading →

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Failure as a Catalyst

Posted on July 10, 2015 by livingasapprentices

“Most life-strategy courses focus on how to avoid failure, or at least how to recast it so it can be called success. That makes sense—who among us doesn’t prefer to move only from success to more success? But Jesus seems to … Continue reading →

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“All Things are Redeemed in the Spacious Heart of God”

Posted on June 13, 2015 by livingasapprentices

In her blog on the website Inward Outward, Kayla McClurg gives a poetic explanation of our suffering:  “Even with all that ended up happening, all that one could say went horribly off track for Jesus—betrayal, wrongful arrest, torture, a violent death—he … Continue reading →

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Becoming a Wounded Healer – More Wisdom – by Kayla McClurg

Posted on April 12, 2015 by livingasapprentices

PEACE AND FORGIVENESS, by Kayla McClurg “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together,with the door locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with … Continue reading →

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Take Heart – By Kayla McClurg

Posted on August 10, 2014 by livingasapprentices

For Sunday, August 10, 2014 – Matthew 14:22-33 Down the trail of years, we hear him still, Jesus calling again and again, “Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.” Whatever the circumstance of our own dark nights, however the waves of … Continue reading →

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