My Blog- Sermons, Thoughts, Discussions…

I am Julie and this is my journal of life- a place to find sermons, life events, theological discussion, and reflection on life in general.
It was begun and continues to be a place to record all of this for me, and if you find you can relate, you are invited in.

  • On leading beside “Still Waters”

    Recently a colleague, one whom I have never met in person commented about why they are friends with me on social media.  “This is why I keep you around.  You lead me beside still waters.”  My response was curious to say the least.  “Who me?”  “Wait, is that good?”  “What do you mean?”  I asked,…

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  • Grief, Shame, and Sacred Spaces #NotreDame

    Yesterday the office administrator interrupted me.  “Notre Dame is one fire,” she said in almost a whisper.  Being the wife of a college football fanatic, my first response was, “the college or the cathedral?” People around the world have flooded social media over this ancient, sacred space burning.  There is palpable grief from all sectors-…

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  • Respite.

    We all get there.  That place where we are at the edge of our capacity.  It may be from one persistent circumstance or a plethora gathering to the point of chaos. I found myself there this past week- in desperate need to have some space to breathe and let my feelings, barely held in check, just…

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  • The Cost of Transfiguration is Change

    Transfiguration Year C 2019.        Riverside CA Hope Lutheran Church               March 3, 2019 Are you here to be changed?  I mean really actually changed?   Transfiguration is defined as a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state. To be transfigured…

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  • To love an addict

    my addict is clean. they are healthy- right now.  Yet in every addict I cross on the street, I see them again.  I begin to weep inside and am always picking up the phone to make sure they are still clean.  I am grateful beyond measure every day for this reprieve and pray it lasts.…

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