noticing and responding to God in our everyday life
“Attention all! See the marvels of God! He plants flowers and trees all over the earth. Step out of the traffic. Take a long loving look at me, your High God.” Psalm 46:8,10 (Msg) It was just an hour. Somehow miscalculated on the calendar. Instead of filling the time with another errand while I wait […]
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“We are about half way there. We would always have CB radios and talk back and forth.” My husband continues describing childhood memories as we drive our seven hours. Vacation week. Nostalgia. Returning to the place he vacationed for so many years. Where he fell in love with the ocean. There is significance in this […]
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It has been a long winter. Very long. Even for this ‘snow loving, embracing negative temps‘ Minnesota girl. I find myself intensely seeking out signs of spring. There’s little league practices on our calendar. Garage sale signs on the corner. But the weather forecast says snow, on April 15th. The earth not yet practicing its […]
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“to be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others” David Whyte Praying for each of you this weekend, that you may see with eyes wide open the ‘hidden’ gift you carry. Quote is taken from David Whyte’s poem, What to Remember When Waking. You […]
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I wasn’t planning on writing this. I wasn’t. But then I read this. About every third thought was taking me back to it. And I began to believe maybe my voice, even in its shakiness, has offerings on the conversation of race. And then today we went to Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. Afterwards we had […]
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It was my lighthouse, my prayer chamber, although I wouldn’t have called it praying then. I could sit on the north shore and on a clear day you could see the outline of Boston. Sorting out questions and hopes and dreams. It was my quiet place to go. My secret escape from a house of […]
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I’m sitting at Starbucks. A gift of time from my in-laws. I have my journal and plans and goals. As I flip through my journal, an entry from a few weeks ago jumps out. Just one verse written in letters large enough to fill the page: “After beginning with the Spirit are you now trying […]
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{Only one day left in 2013. I thought I would end the year with a couple of my favorite posts. Not necessarily the ones that had the most reads. Nope. Simply the ones that made my heart beat the strongest as I wrote the words. One yesterday. One today. This one was written in June. […]
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{Only two days left in 2013. I thought I would end the year with a couple of my favorite posts. Not necessarily the ones that had the most reads. Nope. Simply the ones that made my heart beat the strongest as I wrote the words. One today. One tomorrow. This one was written in April.} […]
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We sit at our well-worn dining room table. In our cozy house with a tin roof. Friends often said it felt like a retreat house. It rang true to my soul; the rhythm of a Seattle rain could lull and calm even the most distracted hearts. This December night, the sounds of the gentle rain […]
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To Robbie on the occasion of your 44th Birthday Fifteen years ago, my roommate and I threw a birthday party for you. Your laugh filled our house and your joy at life was contagious. It was the beginning of me falling in love with you. No, I think that was already happening. It was my […]
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This year the ornaments have moved a foot up the tree. “Don’t get a puppy around the holidays.” Looking at our tree you would know we threw that advice out the window this Thanksgiving. And so this puppy’s presence has my uncle’s ceramic angel tightly sharing a branch with a glittery golden ball. My son’s […]
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And this button if you would like to read last years:
