Category: Spiritual Diriection
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Come Away With Me…
I love how Anne Lamotte says “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” That’s why I chose this off-grid overnight for our family. Truth be told, we have been so “plugged in” and pummeled by the things of life that I forgot this was Labor Day weekend.…
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Musings from Yesterday
What of this liminal space? Egypt behind me; the promised land beyond me… Sometimes I still long for the pseudo security of Egypt though it came with a price: A monkey trap of sorts, holding me powerless to leave What of this “outside looking in” experience? Will it ever be fully realized? As I surrender…
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All That I Can Say…
I’m so grateful for the artistic work of Jess at Salt and Gold as well as David Crowder. This song and these images have forever impacted my perspective on Holy Week. I pray this blesses you, too.
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You, My Love, Will Rise
I remember when I first started writing this song… It was 2020 and we were in the middle of Covid. A friend and I banded together to try to salvage what would have been a challenging educational year for our kids. We were doing a homeschool unit on birds and she was taking a turn…
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Church and Me in 2023
May I share an overview of my neighborhood and what has been unfolding since we moved here last June? I had just started the 18th annotation when we moved from the Boston area to Thomasville, NC. The house into which we moved is bigger than any house we have ever owned and it has a…
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The Story I’ll Tell
I love using the 1SE app to put together a Year in Review audio visual piece. The process of creating this is always a spiritual practice of sorts for me: it helps me to look backward in gratitude for all the joy and goodness we experienced over the past year. It also serves as a…
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Advent Week 4: Peace
I often visualize peace as the absence of struggle, tension or conflict. Upon further reflection, however, (Hello, 3 am. Nothing like waking up after an angsty dream and not being able to fall back to sleep…), I think peace must be more practical than that. At the very least, I desperately hope there is more…
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Advent Week 3: Joy
What brings you joy? The kind of joy that rises up like a spring from inside your true self… The kind of joy that goes deep-down-in-your-bones… The kind of joy that defies circumstances… Talk to me about that kind of joy. I’d love to hear about the places and spaces it has shown up for…
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Advent Week 2: Faith (or the lack thereof)
Faith has rarely come easily for me. So when I realized this morning that the theme of the 2nd week of Advent was “Faith”, I choked. I thought about giving up on this self-imposed challenge of sharing images that inspire me around each week’s Advent theme. I thought about all the pictures I had ready…
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Advent Week 1: Hope
Yesterday, the first Sunday of Advent, our family had the privilege of lighting the “hope” candle at our church. Truth be told, I had to bribe my son with the promise that HE could be the one to handle the fire and light the candle, but we made it! We also gained a child (our…