life
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All Saints and All Souls Experiences Around the Table and in the Cemetery
There was a cemetery that I used to walk through looking at tombstones when I was a pastor in Maine. A friend showed it to me. She walked her dog there but now I run through cemeteries chasing my children… Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 11
It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading
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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 10
It has been over a month since I shared these pandemic prayers. I got swallowed up by the logistics surrounding our move across Texas. Continue reading
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Ash Wednesday
My sister died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. It’s a fact that has haunted these first few months of my own daughter’s life. She died before I was born but the memory is alive. I wake to hear my little… Continue reading
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Before the Fireworks
It was in August of last year that my beloved called from Kuwait to ask if I would move across the country with him. Only a few hours later, after I grappled with all that it would mean to leave… Continue reading
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Let It Live
After that last supper, after the disciples have deserted and one of them has betrayed all that he once believed to be true, after the one they had been following died the most horrible death one might have imagined then,… Continue reading
Cooking with Elsa 