This morning I was talking with a friend about how we touch each other’s lives- how we treat each other, the love we show and share, and the time we give. Then this afternoon as I cleaned, I played Clay Aiken’s Christmas album. On the CD is this song, it’s one of my favorites. A […]
I was talking to a woman at the school I was working at today about a mutual aquaintance. (There are a lot of interconections in the district, especially if you grew up here.) During our conversation, she told me that just being in the same room as this person made her feel good. Even though
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The red carpet extended down the sidewalk, the banners were hung on the walls, the nominees were on the way and the Elsinore Theatre was nearly sold out. Those of us who came to support our friends were cheering as each teacher was interviewed in front of the cameras. Excitement flowed through the air. This
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Are you a sprinkler, a dunker, or the inward fountain? From what I know of all of you, the people reading this span across the whole baptism belief spectrum. Some people believe, not necessarily anyone reading this, that you have to be completely submerged to be saved, some believe as long as you are baptized
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My 30th birthday is next Monday so the women’s small group I am a part of celebrated tonight with cake and wine. (Carole knows me well, the wine was from where St. John of the Cross is from.) It was so much fun! We have been meeting for a year and a half now and
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Many of these people I go to church with. They are a fun group, as you can tell. 🙂 (I was at the Pentacle’s 55th anniversary party taking pictures.) 365-09 #320
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Tomorrow night I am meeting with my small group about what we’ve learned from the enneagram. In addition to our time together, I’ve also studied the enneagram at the seminary with Katie Skurja. I remember the first time I read the chapter on fours, it was actually quite embarrassing. It was as if someone was
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What if this is as good as it gets? What if the life we are living right now is the best we’ll ever have, ever experience? We spend a great deal of time in our lives telling ourselves things will be better when… (fill in the blank). For me, it is usually when this or
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The last few months I have been thinking how rich my life is with such beautiful friends. Life and what it is worth is not found in money or possessions but in love. As the musical Rent proclaims, “measure life in love.” Such thoughts have brought to mind those people in my own life who
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One of my favorite parts of spending time at my friend’s library is to hear her read stories to the kids. Today while I was substituting for her assistant, she read “Monster Mamma” to the first and second graders complete with voices and lots of color in the telling. I took my work out in
