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Choosing Out
Slightly offended, he picks up his book and exits through the screen door.”In or out! In or out!” she demanded, “Make up your mind.”He chose out. He walks up the dusty road to the shady coolness of the creek.Dragon flies… Continue reading
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Creating Peace
Finding peace within brings peace to those around you.Bringing peace to those around you will create peace in your community.Creating peace in your community contributes to peace in the world.It starts with you, with me; how will you find/bring/create peace… Continue reading
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Relentlessly Decent
Relentless Decency reads his T-shirt.”And are you,” I ask, “relentlessly decent?””It’s more aspirational,” he responds, “but I’m working on it.”The words pursue me: To be decent– respectful, kind, honorable, helpful– and not just occasionally, but, like a dog with a… Continue reading
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Prayer for the Heart of God
Dear God,please don’t let dogma and doctrine,tradition and culture,the desire for comfort and security,the need to be right or to winerect barriers to loving others,to loving myself,to loving creation,to loving you.You are love,and all love flows from your gracious, generous… Continue reading
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Amazed
Expect to be amazed, today, by something, anything, by someone, anyone.Be prepared to be amazed. (With a nod to Celeste Headlee.) Continue reading
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Admit It
Just admit it: like me, you too are wounded, frightened, confused, and, perhaps, also lonely, sad, angry…I’m not going to tell you to buck up, nor to grin and bear it, nor to “let it go.”No, better, I believe, to… Continue reading
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The Sower and the Seed
The Sower doesn’t check the soil first; they simply throw out the seed, generously, recklessly, for everyone, everywhere, no matter how ready the soil— at times dry and hard, at times moist and waiting.We are that soil, changing with the… Continue reading
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I’d Rather See a Sermon
(Written when I was in junior high school…) I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day.I’d rather one should walk with me than merely point the way. The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear.Fine… Continue reading
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12th Night
He was the oldest of the shepherd band, and because of his dimmed hearing the angel choir had been but a droning.While he was aware of the brightness, it seemed as if the sun flashed for a moment in the… Continue reading
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On the 10th Day of Christmas
“Little is the Lord, and greatly to be loved.” –Bernard This is part of the reasonChristmas so appeals to me:God comes in complete innocence and purity,complete weakness and vulnerability. I might paraphrase Bernard and say:“Helpless is the Lordand gently to… Continue reading