Category: Pastoral Life
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There is always enough Jan 2015
Originally posted Jan 2015 Lately a concern seems to stick near the top of my mind and heart but I was unable to voice it until now. I am getting ready to do hospital chaplaincy (CPE) and then will go straight into internship. This means my time at home, caring…
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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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Waiting… hoping…
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. But if I let it go, will I have let them go too? It feels like this,this bit of…
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One more post seems impossible
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 hit this screen and yet-…
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A gift to me, for me, this year
In our Luther Seminary portfolios, we are asked by professor Mary Hess to include competencies. These fall into three categories, knowledge, attitude and skill. In my second semester, under knowledge competency 1B, which is“Familiar with basic faith nurture and learning theories: faith development over the life cycle, multiple intelligences, constructivist…
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A thing learned… a joy, a sorrow
Time moves on- a restless, ever moving, ever changing, never changing entity, one we cannot ignore or hide from. “From that one experience, a finger touching a flame, a person learns countless things.”~ A New Culture of Learning It has been a joy to share my blog in a new…
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Trade of the internet-privacy for agency
How do we gain agency in a world that seems to take joy in making more rules and taking away more personal freedom in the name of communal freedoms? What would our world look like right now without the internet? What has gotten better because of the internet? Have we…
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Knowing how…
“Knowing how is more important than simply knowing that.” ~Mary Hess Indeed. For years I knew that rearing children is hard. Knowing how it is hard is what helps me get through it. It is in the knowing how that I am able to find what is going wrong and…
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Exclusive holidays…why Christmas and Thanksgiving SHOULD overlap
There are a lot of holidays that really don’t go together. St Patrick’s day and Halloween, for example. There are even a few that bump up against each other that don’t quite go together either, like St Patty’s and Easter (some years). Many argue that Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas don’t…
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