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Living Make Believe: Longing to be Real
I remember the year I went from accepted to outsider. It was third grade when Jenny moved to town. She was different. Her clothes didn’t fit and she was a little awkward around other children. I loved her. She was quirky and had a wonderful sense of humor. I grew closer to her as other…
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Homemade with Love
My mom is an amazing cook and baker. I have memories of experiments we sampled for her cookbook and making Christmas cookies together. But one of the things our entire family clings to is birthday icebox cake. When Nabisco stopped making the chocolate wafers this past year, I had to improvise and bake my own,…
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Ache for Home
Home can mean so many things. I met with a group of people on Thursday who embody home – not the one they were born into, but the one they have created. And they welcomed me, a stranger, into their midst. They were authentic and enjoyed good “dad” jokes (although I certainly wouldn’t have told…
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Reimagining a Ruptured Faith
When I was little, I was taught by the church that our beliefs led to the only true faith. Other people may have believed differently, but how I lived as a Christian was the only way to get to God. I never really got that. I mean Jesus was a Jew and Islam grew out…
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What’s in a name? Part 3
There’s power in community. Coming together with one purpose, be it snorkeling or running or a campfire or book club or whatever gives a sense of belonging. It’s something most humans long for – kind of like the image above – “like” bagels go in “like” containers! And don’t they look neat, orderly and delicious?!…
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Seeking Community: Hats
“Why do I have to wear so many things on my head?” – Amy Grant, “Hats” Many years ago, singer/songwriter Amy Grant had a song called “Hats”. The song is about how we are different things to different people – parent, child, coworker, friend, etc., depending on where we are. In the Bible from the…
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Seeking Community: Walmart
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” -Helen Keller I was in Walmart the other day. They have been renovating this store near me for months now and absolutely everything is NOT where one might expect it! Most of us were wandering around in a daze, hoping for a quick…
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A Larger Table
As I was coming home from a morning walk I heard a hawk cry. I looked up for the source but realized that the cry became that of one song bird after another. At the tippy top of the pine tree in our yard sat a mockingbird, running through the gamut of calls found in…
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Dreaming in the Stars
Banned Book Club – Update! The stars provided a bright backdrop as the ship raced through space. The crew was diverse in nature and worked well with one another as they navigated the stars. The planet Zor was coming into view and the crew couldn’t wait to explore the land and meet the people. It…
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Surviving the Holidays: Finding Connection
The holiday season can be really challenging. We have commercials and shows that talk all about family and coming together and everything being blanketed in fresh snow. But the reality behind the scenes can be vastly different. Family can be hard. The world is not always an easy place in which to live. And the…
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Perspective: I Read Banned Books
I love to read. I love to hear a well-crafted story with characters whose depth reaches into my soul and tugs at me to see the world through a different lens. And I love happy endings because in real life they can be hard to come by. As books have been banned across our nation,…
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Living Quilts
David was a student of mine that went on to glory this week. I had only taught him this past year, so I didn’t’ know him well, but he was part of my life. He was a storyteller. He’d wrap you into the telling and, although I knew we needed to keep going with the…
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