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Jan 29, 2012
Like a Prayer
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My four year-old sits quietly in the pew with his pen and paper. All around him, the sanctuary is dark and full of mystery. His slow hand moves and concentrates across the space and... Read More + |
Jan 18, 2012
Community Post: You Be Jesus
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So what is a high calling anyway? Do we find it only near the baptismal font or on the missionary field? We know better. Our calling is right here, where we are. Do we see it, though? Jennifer... Read More + |
Dec 1, 2011
Community Post: Having Someplace to Go Is Home
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The plaque doesn’t match anything in the room. In fact, it looks out of place in an already cluttered spot. So during last-minute straightening and dusting this past week, I snatched the plaque... Read More + |
Nov 9, 2011
What Happens in the Face of Beauty
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We’re covered in paint, and the lawn is too, fenced in brown, the geese calling autumn and trees dropping leaves. Everywhere, color. Color is music for the eyes. We’re finger-painting in the... Read More + |
Nov 2, 2011
Rolling Away from Me
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Click, clack. Click, clack. My tow-headed six-year-old careens in front of me on the sidewalk, his red Transformers helmet glinting in the sun. "I'm doing it!" Jackson cries. "Great job" I... Read More + |
Sep 9, 2011
On the Children's Cancer Ward
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The prognosis was pretty good for our friends’ six year old, Samantha. The doctors had found she had a kind of leukemia that goes into remission for long periods and they were hopeful. I had... Read More + |
Aug 18, 2011
A Good Diminishing
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a... Read More + |
Jul 21, 2011
How to See What's Right in Front of You
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I have a friend who is 13 years older than me. When his daughter Jenny was in college, my daughters were young children. One day I asked him what he would give to have Jenny as a five-year-old... Read More + |
Jun 15, 2011
Are You Sure This is Safe?
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As the doctor diagnosed my nine-year-old son Bennett with a simple stomach bug and also some kind of viral skin bump that multiplies when you try to squeeze it, my wife, Karen, decided to... Read More + |
Mar 17, 2011
A Change of Perspective
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My wife and I knew something was wrong with our daughter’s eyes within a week of her birth. One of them tended to drift inward while the other looked straight ahead. An eye specialist gave us... Read More + |
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Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge
Beauty as a Signpost to God, Part 2
The fact that we can perceive things as beautiful, I believe, points to the existence of a God who loves beauty and created us in his own image. I talked about this in yesterday's reflection. Yet... Read More +
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