15.

Maybe it’s our anniversary, maybe it’s my reaction to the book.  (More on that later.) It’s probably each one and everything else. 15 years. Not as many as some, but much more than others.  But here we are, still married.  And this past weekend we spent two days together celebrating and enjoying each other’s company.  […]

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From Night Visions by Jan Richardson

Not to one but to many you have called: come on the dancing wind come from the deepest forest come from the highest places come from the distant lands come from the edge of darkness come from the depth of fear and become the bearer of God.

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Savor

Seated on the picnic blanket, I lick the raspberry jelly from my fingers. Sticky and sweet. Crumbs of baked sugar and butter fall to the ground. Immediately, an ant takes notice and comes into the scene. Slowly, I stand. I follow the trail of crumbs back into the house. A singing tea kettle awaits. A […]

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This Ordinary Family

Living life fully.   We are really trying. So in order to lead a full life, it’s time we do it just as we are.  And that, is that. We aren’t a nice, neat little group.   We are messy, emotional, dramatic, INTENSE, absent minded, totally disciplined, totally UNdisciplined, super smart, super clueless, competitive, nosy, […]

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God is like an earthworm.

Flying back from Detroit a few weeks ago, I gazed out the window at the spectacular clouds.  On this day, they looked like you see them in storybooks, so white, so full, so beautiful.  An amazing blue sky held them in place.  And, as I looked at them I thought of how we imagine that […]

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