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Carol Van Klompenburg

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September Weeding

This September morning, I went out to weed the neglected backyard border bed. This corner of my garden, out of sight from my backyard, gets

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Backyard Thin Space

As I wheel a load of weeds past the six-foot fence that keeps deer from my husband’s vegetables, I sigh and mutter, “I’m discouraged.” “Why?”

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A Calvinist Explores Lectio Divina

For more than a decade, I have met early each Tuesday morning with a handful of women for Lectio Divina (divine reading), a Scripture-based practice

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“Oops” in Cambodia

By Carol Van Klompenburg We bounce over a progressively muddier Cambodian road on a trip for North Americans, hosted and planned by World Renew. The

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Step by Step

When our sons were young, we put up the tree each Thanksgiving weekend, hanging the flotsam and jetsam of our growing history. It wasn’t gorgeous,

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On Naming

Jim Bratt is away today. We welcome guest-blogger, Carol Van Klompenburg. Thanks, Carol! I was planting dianthus in my backyard flower bed when Barb arrived

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Singing a New Song

As I sing the servant song during evening worship, a familiar image recurs. In my imagination, I am standing on a dock, reaching down to

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