I keep hearing people ask the questions: "What can I do?" and "Where do I begin?" These people stand looking out across this great big world of ours with all of its moaning and groaning and - in their...
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Mar 14, 2011
by lauraboggess
As we come to the end of our journey through The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers On Feasting and Fasting Toward God, it feels like we have traveled to faraway places and now breathe the contented sigh of the return...
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Mar 7, 2011
by lauraboggess
Once a year they roll over my house like a tidal wave, consuming everything in sight. I work for days preparing, cooking, cleaning—readying the annual feast for our church youth group.
And then I get out of the way...
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Feb 28, 2011
by lauraboggess
She could not move her arms or legs but she used her eyes to punctuate her words. There were times when she would cry and I would lean over her still body to daub the Kleenex at her lashes--pat down glistening cheeks. When...
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Feb 21, 2011
by lauraboggess
On Valentine’s Day I asked my husband what was his most-favorite-most-romantic-date-in-the-whole-wide-world-ever. He thought about it for a while and when he seemed absolutely stumped, I teased, you used to be so...
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Feb 14, 2011
by lauraboggess
The sky is that same saturated blue that I squeezed from a tube of paint this morning and the sun climbs. Day after day of white above and white below has leeched my cheeks of color—whitewashed my spirit from the...
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Feb 7, 2011
by lauraboggess
It was the year that I gave up coffee for Lent. I was working as our church’s Director of Children’s Ministries and the kids and I were discussing what it means to fast--should we give something up, should we...
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Jan 31, 2011
by lauraboggess
This is week five of our book club discussion on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields. Join us every Monday morning as we dig into this feast!
When my boys...
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Jan 24, 2011
by lauraboggess
This is week four of our book club discussion on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields. Join us every Monday morning as we dig into this feast!
I remember it...
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Jan 17, 2011
by lauraboggess
Attention:Leslie Leyland Fields is offering our HighCalling book club participants a special price on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God. Just email her at leslieleylandfields@gmail.com...
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