Tag: faith
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Life In Black & White: Lent 2018; February 16th
For Christians, Lent is a time to reflect upon the question, “Who does God call me to be?” For the past few years a part of my Lenten discipline has been to participate in a photo-a-day challenge. The challenge is simple – each day reflect upon a word and capture an image that represents that…
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Life In Black & White: Lent 2018; February 15th
For Christians, Lent is a time to reflect upon the question, “Who does God call me to be?” For the past few years a part of my Lenten discipline has been to participate in a photo-a-day challenge. The challenge is simple – each day reflect upon a word and capture an image that represents that…
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Life In Black & White: Lent 2018; February 14th – Ash Wednesday
For Christians, Lent is a time to reflect upon the question, “Who does God call me to be?” For the past few years a part of my Lenten discipline has been to participate in a photo-a-day challenge. The challenge is simple – each day reflect upon a word and capture an image that represents that…
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Bearing Each Other’s Burdens
I was honored, and a little (okay a lot!) nervous to be invited as the featured speaker at Atascadero United Methodist Church as part of their annual Mental Health Awareness Sunday. The key word to me in that sentence is “annual”…..every year for the past few years they have set aside one Sunday in the…
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Love, Faith, and Anxiety
Maundy Thursday is the day that Christians commemorate the gathering of Jesus and his disciples for the Last Supper. Maundy comes from the Latin word mandatum, meaning commandment, in reference to Jesus’ teachings about a new commandment. “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one…
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I Believe in Santa Claus
I adore Christmas. To me, Christmas has the ability to bring out the best in people. Christmas is equal parts magic, wonder, joy and love – all things this world could use more of on regular basis. The stories of both the birth of Jesus and of Santa Claus fill my heart and my soul.…
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Once Upon A Time…
Once upon a time, there was a 10 month old baby boy who took his first assisted steps up and down the aisle of a church during Vacation Bible School week. The hands he held were those of a sweet little girl who would grow up to be one of his favorite baby sitters, as…
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The Story Behind We’re All A Little Broken
Why is the name of my blog We’re All A Little Broken? Until recently, I was crediting the title to something my husband said to me in the middle of a particularly emotional conversation about our son’s struggles. “We’re all broken.” I remember thinking at the time how wise and true that statement was. We…
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It Might Be Time for a Dream Catcher
When I was 11, my grandfather had a brain aneurysm rupture. He was hospitalized for days before he died. The entire time he was in the hospital, I had a horrible dream each night that a masked man with a gun was threatening to shoot every person in my extended family. That dream was my adolescent brain’s…
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Your Most Important Tools
I was able to do one of my most favorite things today – chaperone a class field trip. I was with my daughter’s 3rd grade class at a living history presentation about the daily lives of Native Americans. The educator giving the tour asked, “What was the most important tool the native people had?” My…
We're All A Little Broken 