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Triduum Retreat Coming
FRIENDS – PASS THE WORD PLEASE. Lent is coming. Triduum too. Friends… I’m excited to be part of the Triduum Retreat at Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center in Marriotsville MD from Holy Thursday...
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I’m being guided. I am one who cannot help but listen and notice. Perhaps it has always been this way. It seems so. I read many books at once, all the time – fiction and non-fiction – and hold and...
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Lighten Up!
I’m an unabashed dog person, and always will be. CoCo, my present companion, loves in the morning to jump up next to me when I first sit up on the side of the bed, jump down and frantically run into...
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I was listening to a podcast today which spoke, in part, about the difference between faith and faithfulness, as it described the writings of St. Paul in the New Testament. It’s hung with me today,...
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Advent: Annunciation in Poetry
Virgin by Luci Shaw As if until that moment nothing real had happened since Creation As if outside the world were empty so that she and he were all there was — he mover, she moved upon As if her...
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Blessed is She Who Trusted
“Blessed is she who trusted that the Lord’s words to her would be fulfilled.” (Elizabeth to Mary at the Visitation in Luke). As we celebrate our sister in life and faith, Mary, on the feast of the...
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Teach Me Where I Keep Company with Fear: Psalm 51
Psalm 51 is a staple of Lent, of Fridays, of pleading for mercy and forgiveness. As Friday has just passed, I share with you this translation/poetic rendering of the psalm from Nan Merrill’s Psalms...
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Give Your Life Away, So You Don’t Lose You
What?! Well, that’s what I heard in the Gospel reading for Thursday. “whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to...
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Lent 2017: Learning to Live Loved
Tomorrow Lent begins. And so, I’m beginning a daily – or near daily – effort to write a few (or more) words here. Although there is no one overarching theme that will be pursued, some patterns may...
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Wake Up? Do I Have To?
Our new rescue pup, MayBelle, is a delight and a handful. Although she’s supposedly 4 years old, she is in many ways experiencing puppyhood with us. Like a puppy, she goes from wild to zonked out. The...
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Wonder At What Tender Flesh Receives
Amazement should mark our every inhalation – amazement that we live, that love and thought and breath find home in our flesh! Amazement too that there is a distinct “I” who is the self who is...
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Seek Out All Our Fears: Psalm 10
Nan Merrill’s Psalms for Praying have long been a gift I find treasures in for reflection. Her phrasings have given me words to whisper, and pleas to cry out. They have soothed and challenged me, and...
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The Light Gains Ground! (Ravens, Advent, & Mary Oliver)
I’m a crazy happy Baltimore Ravens fan, and LOVE to see those games when the team turns a corner and starts to climb back into the competition. Things start to click, energy builds, anxiety lessens and...
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Words and Wonder-ings to Hearten the Creative – Who Is, and Serves, Art
For those who would serve the work of creativity – who must, in order to be true to their life’s (or this moment’s) call – there is a wonder in this serving and seeking. Whether one’s work is with...
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Why Not Live Our Whole Life as a Dance?
JOY! SMILES! DANCING! Advent (and LIFE!) practices! This year I have been reading a number of ancillary works on Therese of Lisieux, my ‘confirmation saint’ and one of my (thank God, many!) familiar...
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Casting Down the Compass of the Wither and the Why: Living With the Spirit,...
The soul that walks where the wind of the Spirit blows turns like a wandering weather-vane toward love. It may lament like Job or Jeremiah, echo the wounded hart, the mateless dove; it may rejoice in...
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Sanctuary, Robin Williams – Thoughts
The blog entry below is a ‘move-over’ from a Facebook status-musing this morning, with a little editing and a few adds. I thought it worth contributing to the conversation, the meaning-making, the...
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Keep the Vigil of Mystery – It Matters: Pondering with Jessica Powers
“To live with the Spirit of God is to be a listener. It is to keep the vigil of mystery, earthless and still. One leans to catch the stirring of the Spirit, strange as the wind’s will.” I am attracted,...
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Aslan’s Resurrection Romp and Roar
The rising of the sun had made everything look so different – all the colours and shadows were changed – that for a moment they didn’t see the important thing. Then they did. The Stone Table was...
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Trinity Love – in Jesus – Beckons, Waits
O soul, return, for Jesus Christ is calling you with hands outstretched on the cross; return, for the whole abyss of the Trinity stands ready for your coming. See how patiently He waited – oh how long...
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