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Laura de Jong

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Swimming in the Detroit River

My aunt tried to cross the border last week. She’s a Canadian living in Germany with a daughter living in Michigan. She flew to Canada,

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Song Stories

One of my summer jobs in college was researching and compiling hymn stories – the history of composers, authors, tunes, and circumstances, for Hymnary.org. I

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Heavy Lifting

Saturday Pianos, it turns out, are heavy. Like, really heavy. Like, three days later, still feeling the back ache heavy. After three months of working

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Sandwiches

Instagram moves in mysterious ways. I was lying in bed a few nights ago, scrolling through my Instagram feed as you’re not supposed to do

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Bye Bye Li’l Sebastian

Saturday morning I made myself a cup of coffee, wrapped myself in a blanket on the couch, and turned on the Parks and Rec Special.

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Re-membering

Just going to brag about my congregation for a minute. It was my birthday on Sunday. I, like many whose birthday falls during this quarantine

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A Decent Thing

Last week I presided over my sixteenth funeral since taking up post as pastor of Second CRC two and a half years ago. The fifteenth

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