Tag: Spirituality
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I Feel the Light Again
When last I blogged, I described my winter sun feeling. Actually, the lack of feeling as the very bright day star was all-kinds-of-seen but not-at-all felt through the frigid air. I likened my spiritual state to that; aware of God’s reality but not feeling his presence. During the last week of Advent, God graced me […]
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Shiny Happy Valley of the Shadow
Jerry Seinfeld did some stand up in Sioux Falls a few years ago. He riffed on our habit of talking about the weather. So indulge me (I’ll get into the spiritual stuff too). We’re having some actual autumn here. That’s a thing for us because spring and fall are too often too short preludes to […]
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…by his faith…
I imagined that decades of Holocaust documentaries, dramas, books and my own visits to Dachau and Yad Vashem had me innoculated against strong emotional reactions to presentations about the Shoah. I was wrong. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein present a jarring look at the Holocaust in a global and in particular American context. […]
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Office Hours?
The death of the Queen? Everybody’s covered that. 9/11? I’m working on some thoughts so maybe next time. Sooooo… Working at a Catholic hospital, there are some overtly Christian opportunities. Writing devotional pieces for employee email lists is one. This past weekend, one of mine showed up, so I share it with you here. Hope […]
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So Alive
I’m so alive in this self imposed tomb. God asks me to die a little so that I can live a lot more.
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Have A Look
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Matthew 6:26 “Look,” says the Lord. OK, this morning I got around to one of those acts of obedience that score points to bank […]
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Pentecost Prompts
Letting the Word of God bounce around in our minds makes it available for the Spirit of God to bring to remembrance all that Jesus said….
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