I go this week.
We go.
And we do not go alone.
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Today’s find: A time to tremble
I looked it up: a large round galvanized stock tank weighs about 175 pounds, empty.
So very odd then, I thought, to see just such a steel tank suspended 25 feet aloft and crumpled like foil against the trunk of a maple tree in the farmhouse yard.
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Tags: bible, Burning Bush, daffodils, faith, family, galvanized stock tank, Jesus, life, Moses, Thirds Sunday of Lent, tornado, Tower at Siloam, Tremble
Today’s find: ‘attenchen.’
Odd, isn’t it? When you’re 6 or 8 it feels like liberation to no longer have a Designated Nap Time (DNT) as part of the daily routine. When you’re 68, you come to see the DNT as one of life’s most profound little blessings.
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Today’s find: Patterns
It was my Sweetie, the artist, who pointed it out – how the smooth blanket of snow on our deck had morphed into something new, something a bit more interesting.
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Tags: Beatitudes, bible, christianity, faith, Forgiveness, God, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, Patterns, Sermon on the Plain, Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Snow blanket
Today’s find: Hanging question
Puzzled we were, the 6:30 Daily Mass Coffee Boys. Bumfuzzled, and therefore apparently in good company.
Continue readingToday’s find: Excess
Heard there’s a big game today, so I think I’ll make a double-batch.
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Today’s find: Back-door welcome
The entrance didn’t exactly exude “fellowship.”
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Tags: Anna, bible, faith, Feast of the Presentation, Gospel of Luke, Hope, Jesus, Kairos Menard #23, Kairos Prison Ministry, Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Simeon
Today’s find: Aphasia
It’s hard to put into words, what we saw…what we shared…in our scripture study on Saturday.
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Tags: Aphasia, bible, bible-study, Breakthrough, Dysphasia, Exile, Ezra, God, Gospel of Luke, Nehemiah, Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s find: Fog of family
Was Mary – the Blessed Mother – an irresponsible parent?
Such was the notion I heard expressed on Saturday morn, at our regular weekly scripture study.
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Today’s find: Gloom, dispelled
It wasn’t a “driving” rain exactly. More like “steady,” the winds mercifully silent as we made our wet way along Front Street for the four-minute walk from the prison’s entry house to the chapel deep inside the grounds yesterday.
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