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Wash My Feet
These images and this song have simply stopped me in my tracks today. I couldn’t resist putting them together…
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust…
About five years ago, I sat in a big, beautiful church with a few dear people on Ash Wednesday. A friend read the following poem by Jan Richardson and it stopped me in my tracks. I share it here, with you, as a reminder of “what the Holy One can do with dust”: Blessing the…
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Fresh Vision
It was around this time last year – in the thick of Covid – that we originally started dreaming about how to make spiritual formation and community available to women in a way that was easy-to-access, affordable and meaningful. I remember sitting on my friend’s porch on a cold January night, catching up over a…
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The Tree That You Are
I started year 2 of my Spiritual Direction cohort last weekend; it couldn’t have come at a better time! I went into the weekend with a heavy heart and as we checked in with one another after four months off, I barely got into my first sentence before the tears came to the surface. The…
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“A weary world… rejoices?”
The gifts have been opened. Our bellies are full. The time with family was better than anticipated (albeit a couple of meltdowns from the kids, but that’s to be expected). And now, at 6:30pm, my little one has finally crashed. That was a lot of Christmas for her little body! As I sit here, in…
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Cast Your Bread…
Goodbyes and endings are sometimes hard, sometimes freeing, sometimes necessary, often fraught with ambivalence and always an opportunity for growth. Without loss, can you ever truly find what you’re looking for? Without leaving, can you ever really come home? Without ending, can you ever start again? My church community celebrated the end of our church…
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Beautiful Things in The Garden of You
This morning my friend, Joel Hubbard, spoke some words that inspired me. His talk made me think about this scene from the movie, The Shack. I love the last line: “…wild, wonderful, perfectly in-process…this ‘mess’ is you.”! I felt compelled to revisit images of our property when we bought it in 2017 and the progression…
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Lectio Divina
Many of us are used to reading texts for informational purposes. Scripture can easily become another form of informational reading as opposed to transformational reading, which the Living Word is meant to be. I have found the practice of Lectio Divina to be a helpful way to allow the Word to transform me. A beautiful…
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Making Important Decisions
Should I take the job? Am I able to commit to this relationship, or do I need to call it off now? Do I invest in this company? Will our family be better off here, or do we move? Can I continue with this community or is it time to move on? These are just…
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What is Spiritual Direction, Anyway?
For some folks, this may be a new term. I (Jen) recently found myself reconnecting with a wonderful group of old friends I hadn’t seen in a while. When they asked me what I was up to these days, I found myself struggling to succinctly explain the term “spiritual direction” and what it is I…
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