Lent 2023 - Murrelets

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My feet reach my slippers in the morning and cry. I tell them, " Suck it up! Look what Jesus endured. You can at least make it through the morni…

Back at Advent, anticipating the birth, we knew this was coming. This Holy Week is not our first rodeo. As this Lenten season ends, and I wonder what…

I feel most of what I have written in the last forty days has been about mortality: the releasing of what is known, secure, predictable to open an ag…

I was married to Mr. One-Day-at-a-Time. After his diagnosis with stage 4 prostate cancer (it had already spread to his bones), he lived one day at a…

Yesterday the Green Team from my church met in the big back yard of the director of our local ecology center to do some prep work on trees to be plan…

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We’re spiritual beings having a human experience!” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin That was a ligh…

#1 We have reinvented the world, the word More pleasing to our eye Now our God is weeping We touch We spoil We justify Our God is weeping We have lis…

This week I have been entrusted to care for our fifteen year old grandson while his parents attend a college welcome program for our eldest grandson …

Victory: The power to believe. Victory: The power to hope. Victory: The power of grace. Victory: The power to hear your voice. Victory: The power to …

"I have been entrusted to you ever since I was born; you were my God when I was still in my mother's womb" (Psalm 22:10a). This line fr…

My 91 year old uncle died a few weeks ago. Since he passed, I have had conversations with 3 cousins, two of whom are his children. When one of these …

John couldn’t remember or didn’t know the answer the Hospice nurse asked. He replied in matter-of-fact tone, “Ask Teressa. She knows.” At that poin…

There are the little entrustings: Please mail this package to my sister. Please pick up a quart of milk on your way home. Please return this book to …

The most important undertaking that I’ve been entrusted with is my two children. They are my world. Having been adopted at the age of two I often won…

I am entrusted with their bodies and their psyches, and today I want to ask the neurologist about medicinal marijuana, to take the edge off. For them…

Covid struck the country when I was already in a very frail state and social distancing was something I practised long before the media found a name …

I am tempted to say that public health experts have been saying for decades that a pandemic is likely, that it will occur, and that we have to be rea…

My husband entered Hospice Care at Home just days before the Covid-19 pandemic became very real in the United States. He died seven months later. …

The part of the prompt that asked if any of my pandemic changes have lasted………not a question to ask this Introvert! The Pandemic time was a frightful…

I will never be the same after the pandemic. I was always a little germaphobic but now the thought of a champagne buffet brunch makes me physically i…

It speaks to my privilege to admit (with a little embarrassment) that Covid touched little that I hold precious. My remote location in wilderness was…

When we came out of our houses, we were tender with each other on the sidewalks and streets, walking in the sun. We said hello across the small, poli…

As Americans we often buy more than we need. Consumerism is taught at an early age.It is the engine driving our economy. Babies-R-Us, Home Depot, Mat…

Years ago I had a dream. In the dream I was standing with a dark-skinned man before a park bench on a sunny day. Under the bench were a neatly-folded…