Actively walking with.

Many new parents keep the ink and skin prints of their infant child’s hands and feet. Often, in some craft project in school or scouts or Sunday school, hands are captured in plaster, with “happy mother’s day” scratched above in a font named “indecipherable.” I understand. We probably have one or the other around, too. […]

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What will others read?

Rich Dixon invites us to consider what we get to live. +++ There are 5 Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke John, and your daily life. A reminder that others pay more attention to our actions than our words. I suspect we’ve all known people who had incredible Bible knowledge and could speak deeply on any topic in […]

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Abandoning the frantic for the contented.

You and I are getting consumed with drama. It’s making us more and more anxious. I could use my academic analysis skills to help us see behind the curtain. We talk about people in the public eye as if they are people the same way the person next door is a people. We forget that […]

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Being aware of the gap.

Jim was a young adult when his dad died suddenly. He has supported his mom. He’s working on his own life. But I as I was thinking about him this morning, I realized that there is a gap. It’s not the very real gap of not having a dad. I sometimes see the sense of loss when […]

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A prayer for the twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

God. We’re waiting for something to break. Like a storm breaks, and there is a deluge.Like a wave breaks, and there is a crash.Like news breaks, and we know everything is going to change. We have had so many things change this year, so many things be cancelled, so many plans fall apart.We have anxiety about what could break next.We scan the news, […]

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