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Ethiopia--things that amazed me
1. The thing that amazed me most was the interior of the churches in Lalibela. The churches in Lalibela are carved into the volcanic rock. Imagine, you are on a mountain made of volcanic rock. Then...
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Friday Five: The Janus Post
I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions, but it does seem a good time for some reflection and planning. For the last few days I keep thinking of Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days that we...
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Ethiopia Pictures
A long slide show of my pictures is hereYou can speed up the slide show by moving the cursor and a speed menu will pop up
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Birthdays-Revgalblogpals
April is a month of family birthdays for me: Today is my mother-in-law's 80th birthday and on Sunday my third child's 26th birthday, so I am thinking about birthdays. Easter would have been my mother's...
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Authenticity and Integrity
I was intrigued by an article in the NYTimes on authenticity. It's a big word today. Everyone wants to be authentic. What I hear when I hear authenticity is being true to one's self. Being who one is,...
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Friday Five--Seeking what?
So Jan posted on RevGalBlogPals I was struck in our weekly Lectio Divina group by a few verses from Psalm 105:3-4:. . . let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Seek the Lord and his...
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VietNam Journal
VietNam November December 2011At some point in almost every trip I've taken overseas, I think how grateful I am to be an American. This trip it came much earlier than usual.. About three days into the...
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Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos
Tuesday (Nov 29) We were off to Luang Prabang. I had decided to add Laos to the itinerary simply because it was there. I had originally thought to visit Vietanenne because it is the capital, but...
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Friday Five
From RevGalBlogPalsA simple Friday Five for a busy part of the year; indulge me by sharing two fives:As you look back over 2011 share 5 blessings, they can be as grand or as simple as you like,if you...
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That We But Mortals Be
I have avoided reading The Fault in our Stars by John Green, though several of my friends on FB raved about the book. I tend to avoid anything concerning cancer by anyone who has not been there. Like...
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Food
Trying to be more mindful as I eat, I looked at my spinach salad: dark green spinach leaves; cherry red tomatoes and bright orange carrots nestling under the shelter of the spinach. It struck me that...
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Friday Five!
RevGalBlogPals Friday Five1. Name a woman author you very much love to read.Well, I love Barbara Brown Taylor, but so does almost everyone else. I confess my favorite reads are women detectives by...
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Sunday's Sermon
1 John 4:7-217Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9God’s love was...
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Cancer
A few days ago, I sat down with my journal. At the end of journal, my habit is to write a list of things I'm grateful for. I started a number of years ago when I was at Homer and feeling very isolated....
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Trust
Text--Mark 6:1-13Last Sunday I talked a bit about the connection between the lectionary texts in Mark’s Gospel. This week, it seems that the two sections of the text are not connected at all. In fact,...
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The sins of the father. . .
2 Samuel 18 This is one of the most tragic stories in the Old Testament. David’s son Absalom rebels against his father. He has captured Jerusalem. David is on the run. And yet, David tells...
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These are the aurora pictures from my trip to Alaska to see the aurora. It was fantastic. It is an amazing sight.
View ArticleIs God Just?
The church I preach at from time to time has a series of "Bad News and Good News" on the back of its bulletin. The bad news is that we are sinners. The worse news is that God is just and therefore must...
View ArticleIncarnation: Taste and See that the Lord is Good
A group I meet with periodically decided that we should reflect on embodiment as each of us had talked of embodiment that day. As I was thinking about what I would write, three experiences came...
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When a person stands at a threshold, a doorway, she has a choice: she can enter the house or turn her back and walk away. She can join the party or go home. When we stand at a threshold of a stage in...
View Article"And there was no one in need among them."
As I walked to church this morning, I saw him outside the doughnut store, sitting, reading, studying in fact, papers crammed with cramped writing. He looked as if he were studying for an exam. The...
View ArticleReflections on The Fault in Our Stars (the movie)
I haven’t read the book, though I have owned it since it was first published. I wound up at the movie, not because I wanted to see it but because a friend wanted to see it and asked me to go with her....
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A Long, Loving Look at the Real
My first spiritual director talked about contemplation as “a long, loving look at the real.” It’s a quotation from the Jesuit Walter Burghardt. It has taken me years to begin to unpack its meaning. It...
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Cancer narratives have two arcs: the person whose cancer has been treated and is highly unlikely to recur and the person with terminal cancer. The stories like many stories have predictable narrative...
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A Call to ConfessionSunday 10 July 2016 Luke 10:25-37At the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 Nelson Mandela and other leaders made a radical decision. Believing that vengeance generates only...
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