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The Word that Woos
On Wednesday, July 29 th, 2009The lips that resuscitate linger, a kiss that heals the blue and gasping, and I know it again on a Saturday. “Could you hurry up and dry already?” Son rinses off enamel bowl, slams it into sink. “We’re going to be late!” “We’re not supposed to yell, so why don’t you stop that already?” Younger brother drags a dishtowel around a pot. “Boys...
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How to Read the Bible: Eat This Book
On Wednesday, July 22 nd, 2009Pass the carrots, please.” “May I please have the butter?” “Is there another slice of bread?” We eat. Three times a day. Mostly out at the old table on the front porch these days, ringing it with the passing of the butter, the bread, the water pitcher. The swallows swoop and line the telephone lines at the road like notes on a bar of music, a cup o...
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moreThe Art of Scripture Reading: Why Read the Bible?
On Wednesday, July 15 th, 2009Early I find it, filigree in the fog, night threads beaded with heaven’s breath. I bend low, patron hushed in the gallery. Photo credit My feet are wet, bare and hallowed, and I hear music. Sequined web sings pearled notes slipped on rising scale and for a moment, a day, an eternity, morning’s world shimmers, orb silvered in delicate strings of song, and t...
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moreJournaling as a Spiritual Discipline: An Act of Prayer
On Wednesday, June 24 th, 2009This is praying time, and the act of listening in prayer is the same act as listening in writing.” ~Madeleine L’Engle I read Scripture. I listen. I pray. I pick up pen. I listen. I pray. This writing becomes prayer, heart stretched right out, poems laid bare. One of my held-close, always-come-with-me journals is my Prayer-Poem J...
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moreWeekend Wanderings: The Summer Reading Edition
On Saturday, June 20 th, 2009Why Should Christ-Followers Read Fiction @ BreakPoint 8 Tips to Remember What You Read@ Sharp Brains Library Elf — an email service that reminds you when your library books are due — so sign out books without fear! How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen – a plethora of fascinating Top 10 book lists Fiction that Every Christian Should ...
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moreJournaling as Spiritual Discipline: How to Set up and Organize a Journal
On Wednesday, June 10 th, 2009Journaling is keeping company with God, God who asks as He walks through the Garden, “Where are you?” Journaling answers: Here I am. It leaves markers of the soul’s journey. One Way to Organize a Journal and Track the Journey of a Soul: 1. Leave Tags: When I sit readi...
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moreTo Survive Hard Times
On Thursday, May 28 th, 2009When I ask him he’s still got his shovel in hand, and he nods and says he can’t see why not, that it’s late enough in May, warm enough, sure, plant the tomatoes, and since Dutch Father-in-law, Opa, has more than six decades of digging under his gardening nails, I dig them in, all fifty two of the paste Romas and juicy Better Boys. The boys keep the tiller going. ...
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moreGod Speaks the Language we Know
On Monday, February 16 th, 2009I’m blow drying this mop of hair, this hair with the cowlick, so heavy and thick and full, and the dryer howls and I’m rolling the wild strands all under, glancing at the quote beside the mirror, the one with a black and white picture of a long ago mama with her laced child on lap, words scrolled below in Edwardian script, “There is no higher height to which humanity can...
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moreCommuning
On Thursday, January 08 th, 2009“In the 1950s, a group of mature Christian men discussed the questions: “How do we help new believers develop a relationship with God? What are the most critical and basic elements that will help them grow in their new life with Christ?” They concluded that quiet time and memorizing Bible verses were the two most important practices to establish be...
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more2009 Happiness
On Friday, January 02 nd, 2009From the book of James: “But the truly happy people are those who carefully study God’s perfect law that makes people free, and they continue to study it. They do not forget what they heard, but they obey what God’s teaching says. Those who do this will be made happy.” ~James 1:25 NCV
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moreHow to Eat Differently this Year
On Friday, January 02 nd, 2009The sun shines in, virgin light across shimmering snow. The table floods with golden warmth, steaming porridge bowls. The day begins with sustenance. Malakai laughs, “I slurp down my toast!” A frown knits across Joshua’s brow. “We don’t slurp our toast, Kai. We chew. Slowly.” My Bible lies open on the table, beside bowl of oat flakes fleck...
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moreExtreme Faith
On Monday, October 20 th, 2008The red sea of maples divides and we drive through on a part of dry gravel road, waves of color lapping in wind. A gust of autumn sprays brilliance. A splash of light carpets the way. We’re led through. “They say the colors are exceptionally vibrant this year.” He knows that’s what’s holding me rapt, silent. From the passenger seat...
