Tag: Lent

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Unless a Seed Falls: John 12:20-36

What do the neighbors think of my front-yard native planting now? Last summer, the purple anise hyssop burst with fuzzy flower spikes for months, luring

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Pandemic Ash Wednesday

This year, the ash came to us. It floated down, almost beautifully, landing on our windshields, our lawn chairs, and our eyelashes.We coughed on it and

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Church Years

for Myrtle Takken for her 95th Year Grandma walks toward Easter one more time;I see her walking not toward church but trees—trees of the farm

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Not Dead, But Alive

(1) It was Saturday, March 9, right around noon when I received a text message from my husband with two beautiful photographs of trees, and

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Playing Catch-Up

Part of my work is to hear stories, to listen with students as they work to find passage through their lives. It is a great

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I Don’t Want to Scare You

I came home from a doctor last year hopping mad. We were making conversation about our lives briefly during the visit, and I mentioned that

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Losing My Way

I. “Those who stutter win, in the painful pauses of their demonstration that speech isn’t entirely natural, a respectful attention, a tender alertness. Words are,

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A Glory Story

The story of the Transfiguration in Luke 9 is one of the most puzzling stories in the Bible. Biblical commentators, in fact, tend to throw

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