Category: Feelings
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A rainy day grave and a call to ministry.
It has been twenty years exactly. Twenty years since Pastor David Stoner surprised me in Bible study and started a chain of events I never expected to end up here. As we sat in study, someone asked him about seminary (not me) and he was sharing information about it. At…
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Death Becomes Them
We all go there, that place where death puts us on auto pilot and our truest self seems to appear. In grief, we are ground down to the very nub of our nature and have no energy to be anything other than our most authentic self. Sometimes that is pretty darn…
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How being more holey can also be more whole
originally posted Aug 2013 We tend to think that something with holes is incomplete, less than perfect or damaged, right? I mean, the underwear with holes get tossed, as do the socks. If my pool has a hole, I have to patch it or it is useless. If there is…
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Held in Grief’s Lap (July 2014)
Originally posted in July of 2014 after the death of my second grandparent in a month’s time. Grief. Death. Loss. They do funny things. Twisted things. I sit here with my grief in my lap, rocking it. I do not want to hold it, I want to let it go.…
Mistress of Divinity 