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Thanksgiving – Looking Back and Looking Forward
Happy Thanksgiving! This is a wonderful day in which we spend remembering the many things that we are grateful for. Not only is it a day to look back but it is also a day to look forward, preparing us for the holiday season.
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Free Play and Discipleship
Recently I learned about two things that would seem to be detached from one another but actually have quite a bit in common. Free play and question based discipleship.
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And the Prize Goes to …
Much commotion and opinion surrounded us as our President, Barack Obama, was given the Nobel Peace Prize last week. As I sat in the media commentary, facebook comments and my own discussions I began to realize that not only does it seem that our society value ideals over actions, but so do I.
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Sabbath
I’m supposed to be taking a Sabbath day today from work. So, how a nursing mother does this I don’t know, but I’m going to try. I believe I am violating my Sabbath by even being on my computer, but it was my day to blog today and I didn’t find someone else to fill in for me.
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Duty and Desire
"Be fruitful and multiply". This is the command given to the man and the woman in the garden and recently I was reading through a book that said that this is the best reason we should have children, because God commands us to. I read this and it just rubbed me the wrong way. I’ve been trying to discern whether it is because I just don’t like being told what to do (especially sinc
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Gracious Stumbling
Who do you know who is a gracious stumbler? No, I’m not talking physically, but in life. Where are the role models for handling stumbles whether they be sin stumbles, failure stumbles (different than sin stumbles), mistake stumbles (again, different than sin stumbles) or any other kind of stumble?
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Stuck
“We will move forward when our hope for the future is greater than our stories of the past.”
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Our Deep Gladness
In Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer quotes Frederick Buechner saying that vocation is "the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need". To answer the question of what the world’s deep need is relatively simple, but to answer where are deep gladness is requires a bit more work.
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It Takes a Village … but Do I Want One?
Jealousy reared its ugly head as I watched my now 11 week old soon cooing and smiling at the sweet woman who helps takes care of him while I’m at work. Didn’t expect that one! Becoming a new mom has brought out many thoughts and emotions and I never expected jealousy to come forth like it did.
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Loose Thoughts
Our minds are a battlefield and in different seasons of life there are different battles happening. Currently, my battle has to do with fear of losing my son. Each night I have at least one irrational fear that enters my mind of something horrible happening to him. I have the choice in the matter – to linger and dwell on or move away from. I am reminded each time of 2 Corinthians 10:5 tha