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The Light Gets In
After months of knitting, I aimed my finished sweater at the trashcan beneath sink. My Grandmother Sonja’s hand on my arm stopped me. “Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” (Leonard … Continue reading
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Tagged crochet, faith, family, forgiveness, grace, hope, kindness, knitting, love, mistakes, peace, redemption, wholeness
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Where Is the Light in Your Life?
Do you recognize light and grace in your life even when bad things happen? Every life is difficult and contains pain and suffering. Gut every life is also infused with God’s light and grace. I do belong to a … Continue reading
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Tagged God, grace, gratitude., hope, light, memoir, thanks
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Living Fully
Forgiveness and peace (shalom) are a huge part of the Christian life. Jesus calls us to forgive over and over again. Imagine that each of us is given a bag when we enter the world. For each thing that we … Continue reading
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Tagged forgiveness, hope, love, peace, prayer
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Making Holey Walls
A Very Holey Wall One day, I was looking at my dish drainboard and noticing the scales on it from the South Texas hard water. I pulled out the vinegar and poured it over the plastic drainboard, dissolving the build … Continue reading
Posted in Forgiveness, Hope, Love, Sin, Wholeness
Tagged forgiveness, hope, humor, Krista Tippet, love, mistakes, Nadia Bolz=Weber, peace, sin
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Memories: Remembering and Forgetting as Grace
I have been thinking about memories, both how we remember and forget. It seems there is grace in each, depending on what we remember and forget. I just finished reading a memoir, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life by … Continue reading
Posted in Dreams, Faith, Hope, Love, Peace, Wholeness
Tagged Abigail Thomas, forgetting, grace, happiness, hope, love, Pauline Frances Camp, peace, remembering, Seventh Day Adventist, St. Nicholas, The Boy Who Forgets, To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Epiphany – January 6
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star … Continue reading
Advent Week Three – Celebrating Joy
Lighting the Candle of Joy “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” Emily Dickinson In his biography, Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis talked about God coming into his life and surprising him with joy. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Celebration, CS Lewis, faith, happiness, Joy, Surprised by Joy
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Walking the Labyrinth – Walking Prayers
A labyrinth is a complex path that doubles back upon itself, leading to a center in a way that is not obvious. There is a tradition in the Christian church of walking this path while praying. The labyrinth can be … Continue reading
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The Quiet Garden Movement
I recently learned about The Quiet Garden Movement which began in the UK and is now over the world. It is, according to the website, “a simple ministry of hospitality and prayer.” Amazingly, people will offer their gardens to be … Continue reading
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