I cannot tell you how many times I have asked someone how they are doing and they reply in a variance of “I’ve been busy” as if this is a real answer to my question. Are you happy? Do you have joy? Are you worn out? Do you need rest? How do you feel about […]
“I’ve Been Busy” – But You aren’t that Important Read More »
Once I was seated on the plane during my first leg of the trip, it didn’t take me long to pull out a book to read. I had been looking forward to that moment for two months. Well, I would have been looking forward to it if I’d had the time. I was so intensely
“I’m sorry folks, but…” We heard a version of that several times on the second leg of my trip. At first it was a mechanical repair, then it was our co-pilot being over his allotted hours, then having to run some diagnostics. All in all, we spent about four hours waiting in our plane on
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“Broken Blessings” by Christine Elder Art by Jeff Tiner I once heard Paul Young, author of “The Shack”, say that he no longer asked God to bless anything he did but if there was something God was blessing and he could be a part of it, he would be all over that. Today I get
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So it’s been five days since I dumped the jar and I thought I would give you an update. Let me tell you, it’s hard to keep the other rocks from slipping back into the jar. I’ve been invited to go country line dancing, to a concert, and to a potluck, all things I would
So I actually did it. I made the space for change. (Earlier post can be found here.) I realized that now fall has begun with work in the schools and house sitting, that I was pushed to the very edge of my margins and that once again, what needed to be done, namely reprinting the
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This is a video of one of the children’s choirs with us at the Young Quaker Christian Association of Africa triennial conference last December. I now believe any conference without two such African children’s choirs just isn’t right and is in fact, far from being a complete conference. When I get back home from house
Chwele Yearly Meeting Youth Choir Read More »
I told you I was going to be fiddling with the layout… I like the pictures from Kenya myself, I hope you do too. Let me know what you think!
New Kenya Template Read More »
Last winter I wrote five lessons on the Psalms for Barclay Press’ “Adult Friend”, a quarterly Bible study they edit and publish for classes and Bible studies around the United States. Delving deep into these Psalms was a joy. Exploring and searching them out for the reader and for myself was an experience that rooted my soul into
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This is a comment I received today on the post: “Peanut M&Ms in Relationship -Submission Part 3” “So, um, you know, I really really like the general direction of this post and some parts of your metaphor really work for me, but WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM WITH CHOCOLATE??? I am not sure I want to
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