Category: Pastoral Life
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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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Does connection mean experience? (Nov 2013)
originally posted November 2013 Well I am “connected”, does that count? I tweet, I am on facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, classmates, Skype, and cafe-mom to name a few I have learned by blackboard on tiger-tracks, on myluthernet and more with classmates in Turkey, Norway, Australia and China. I blog on blogger, …
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The Hopeful Side of Experience (Nov 2013)
Originally posted November 2013 The other day I posted about how experience and being ‘connected’ are two very different things on the internet. Although I meant every word of what I said, there is another side to the story, a side that I like to call hopefulness. The sunny side.…
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There are no words (Dec 2013)
Originally posted in Dec 2013 I am supposed to write one more blog post for my class project. Somehow though, as I sat here taking a break and surfing my facebook community I learned a close friend lost her battle with cancer today. My heart is broken. I want to…
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Reintegration- unnecessary if you didn’t have a profound experience already (Jan 2012)
Originally from Jan 2012 Reintegration:verb; To make or be made into a whole again; to amalgamate or help amalgamate with an existing community. Reintegration is unnecessary if you don’t feel separated right? But, if you have a profound experience in life, it can make you feel a bit ‘out of…
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Scones chase the blues away (Jan 2012)
(Posted Jan 2012) Used to the constant movement required to keep a household for a family of six moving smoothly, I found myself still. Too still. Not in a good way. I enjoyed having the time to devote to God and study, but I began experiencing what I now believe…
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Called to Feed (Feb 2013)
(Originally posted February 2013) I wish that you could be in my head today as I read for class….. There is this thing I do, I cannot help myself. When I do not do it, it is all I crave. It consumes me in a passionate and unforgiving way and…
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Two Years Down (Aug 2013)
(Written August 2013) I can hardly believe I am writing this. It really does feel like yesterday that I was freaked out about learning Koine Greek. Now I not only have that under my belt but Hebrew too. I am finally starting to feel like a seminarian and I am…
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The sacrifice you cannot see (and thoughts with M.L.E.) (from August 2013)
In her books, Madeleine L’Engle often speaks of that which we cannot see with the naked eye. Things that are amazing to behold and stunning in their purpose and presence. We take them for granted and forget how they impact our lives. When speaking of faith, someone once said that…
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Seminary Updates and why I haven’t written in a year (September 2014)
Originally posted Sep 2014 This past year has been overfull. So overfull that my poor heart and mind just needed to be ‘in’ it. Sometimes that overfulness looked like an empty calendar and time spent with just my family. It was wonderful and scary and full of noise and laughter…
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