Category: just me
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The Dirty Birth
It all seems perfect tonight doesn’t it? The sanctuary is softly lit with candles, draped in lovely fabric and the music is familiar, full of joy and hope. If things went well, at home the presents are all wrapped and the children have new pajamas to wear as they open…
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What Is It About Light
A message for the December 13, 2015 Interfaith Jazz Vespers of Mt Olive Lutheran Church, Santa Monica, CA. What is it about Light? From the first flickers of fire, and the dim dusk and dawn, humans have been drawn to light. I don’t just mean teen boys and their pyro…
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Giving Thanks
Sermon for Mt Olive Lutheran Thanksgiving 2015 In Greek, Thanksgiving is Eucharistia. Does that sound familiar? It should. Every week, we say a Eucharistic prayer and participate in the Eucharist, otherwise known as communion. As I did a little research on the word, I found it interesting that the…
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Reformation and the “New” Printing Press
Did you know there are two ways to refer to the word of God? The first is with a capital W- indicating a personhood- that of Christ himself, such as, “in the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Word with a…
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Fake it Til you Make It- Sermon for Mt Olive Lutheran in Santa Monica, CA, Sept 20, 2015
In a world full of artificial things… artificial flavoring, artificial sugar, artificial attitudes and artificial… noses, I am not encouraging us to be unreal or artificial. The phrase ‘fake it till you make it’ isn’t about being artificial, rather it is about facing the things we are afraid of and…
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Tradition; Antique Versus Junk
Have you ever sorted a home after someone has died? Isn’t it amazing what value we place upon things in our grief? It’s true also that sometimes we see things glaringly well and suddenly everything becomes junk. A loved one in my life died several years ago and as we sorted…
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Why I blog
I have been asked before why I blog, but the answer was never as clear as what I heard in a class on Job today; “Sometimes we just need to speak and for just one other person to hear.” That is why I blog, to put my small, lone voice…
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the dream of a garden memorial
I dreamt that I walked in soft green grass,the whisper of wind in the trees.The flowers all nodded their sweet helloas they welcomed the buzzing of bees. I dreamt of a tree whose leaves unfurledand gathered my sorrow withinAnd took it from me and gave me insteadpeace and innocent comfort…
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25 things, for my friend Fran and becuase of her. (from Jan 26, 2009)
Edit 25 Things, for my friend Fran and because of her by Julie Kelly on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 10:26am 1. If I could change one thing about my life, it would be to live as a missionary with basically nothing. Simple is good. 2. If I could take…
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The answer is… suck it up and drive on
Many a time I am asked, “How do you do it? How do you live with a man, give him your heart and bear him children, all while knowing he may leave for battle and never return?” They even ask, “How does he do it? How does he live with…
Mistress of Divinity 