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Praying Without Words, Praying for Sanity
Prayer (Mary Oliver) It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them...
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In the Bleak Midwinter, It’s a TIME Thing!
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. (Christina Rosetti) As I...
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Learning to Fall
A life-threatening diagnosis like ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), cancer, or any of a number of fearsome health challenges can bring forth the best of our humanity — or cause us to react with anger,...
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Changing the World
Hosni Mubarak. The Muslim Brotherhood. Tahrir Square. Anti-government protesters. Names, groups, and places that once were far away and almost out of our awareness have become the central focus of...
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Having a Mind of Winter …
I’ve been intrigued this year with how easy it has been for me to cope with a tough winter. Snowfall was substantial. Ice covered everything for weeks after one storm. It has been a season of...
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The Wonder of Walking a Straight Line and Touching the Sky
Before you read further, stand up, stretch your arms toward the ceiling, put them down comfortably at your side, then close your eyes for 15 seconds (Yes, I mean it …I’ll wait … :^) A week ago, I...
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Ashes to Ashes
Today is the first day of Lent. Some of us will go around today with black smudges on our forehead. If we are spending time in our counseling role today, what will clients perceive about us? Is it...
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“Ah, yes. I see the resemblance…”
In this week’s Pastoral Care and Counseling class at Moravian Theological Seminary, we are considering family transitions . . . births, adoptions, pregnancy loss, the impact of parenthood on the...
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A glimpse of spring in the dead of winter…
After 70 degree temperatures and warm breezes last Friday, Monday’s snow was a surprise. At 6 am that morning, I had to open my front door to see if it really was snow on our walk, or just reflected...
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A Theory of Limits
Why do I keep thinking I can finally get it all done? Why do I imagine that I must finish the ever-lengthening to-do list before I can kick back and relax? I continue to fool myself daily, thinking,...
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During our MAPC Internship year, we almost always have at least one student who interns at a hospice or works with the bereaved. Some students, when offered a hospice setting for internship, have a...
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All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer....
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My father is 87 and has kept a journal that records people with whom he has connected throughout his life. He is an INTJ and because of the “J” has been very diligent in recording stories and facts...
View ArticleSynchronicity, Serendipity, and Gratitude
Synchronicity is a concept named by Carl Jung and described as two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring...
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