Tag: creation
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The Thing About Lament
If anything, this week, and the start of an new year, should call us to to our knees in prayer.
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Cheers 🥂 to an Embodied Existence in 2021
It’s a new year. Goodbye 2020, hello 2021! COVID, of course, dominated the New Year’s Eve discussions, with essentially everyone toasting to leaving 2020 behind. Flipping the calendar doesn’t mean changing the circumstances though. But it is a great opportunity for reflection and resolve for 2021! Back in the early stages of COVID, I wrote…
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Joy of Every Longing Heart
A deep blanket of fog lay thick all morning Saturday. The afternoon sun burned it off, with the December day becoming mild and bright. Morning fog lays low,Lifts, allowing sunshine onStreams of liquid light Despite the beautiful weather, my weekend was battered with burdens. The sunshine could not keep me afloat. Nor a brisk hike.…
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Pour Over Me Your Holiness
This Advent season, if you are looking for rest and renewal, draw on the living waters of Christ. It is a well that will never run dry.
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Sights and Sounds of Summer
It’s been a very different summer. And yet, in so many ways, it’s still the same. The sights and sounds of summer have made their seasonal appearance, a comforting reminder of the persistence of life. The rumble of thunder from a summer storm. The waves of cicadas buzzing each morning and evening. This weekend, on…
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The Whispers of Wildflowers
I’ve been day-dreaming about wildflowers. They show up in unexpected places on adventures with my four-legged companions. ‘I will believe in my beauty even if no one else sees it’That’s what the wildflowers whisperThese lilies dance to the music of a soft breezeNo one is watching or listeningBut meAn interloper and yet also welcomed in…
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Morning Majesty
This week I have to remind myself of the old adage, “April showers bring May flowers” – it’s already been raining for two days straight and is supposed to continue all week. We’ve gotten a taste of spring, and yet today it’s been feeling like winter again! Since I was stuck indoors tonight, it was…