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Hope you find some thing for your journey.The Woman Clothed With the Sun
Giving birth to anything—a baby, a dream, a relationship, a new beginning—is a precarious and vulnerable act. But women have a unique ability to channel a deeper strength that shelters what remains vulnerable within us.
Getting Grounded When Everything is Up in the Air
Much of what we have known as “regular” life is up in the air these days. With so much isolation, many of us have been feeling the effects of a long term, pent up anxiety. We watch the news of explosive anger, violence, slander and bickering among our peers. We see...
The Wilderness is the Way: Navigating Chaos
The way is made clear, not in the heat of battle, but in the forced retreat to the wilderness. None of us go there willingly, or so the story goes. Hagar is banished to the wilderness and finds the way, led by God. The Israelites escape to the wilderness and find a whole new future. Jesus is forced into the wilderness by the Spirit and finds the strength to carry out his mission there. We are tested in the wilderness, but it is also the place we are taken to be nourished, nurtured and learn to depend on a power greater than ourselves.
Abiding, Not Fading
There are little sprouts coming up in my garden from seeds I planted a couple of weeks ago. It's kind of a miracle. Since I planted these seeds, my garden has experienced torrential downpours, a tornado and even frost. These sprouts shouldn't be appearing, and yet new...
Healing in an Age of Collective Trauma: Finding a Center That Holds
In a post 9/11 era and the age of the global pandemic, we are waking up to the new reality of collective trauma. It’s not something most of us want to discuss over coffee, in fact, we’d really rather avoid any unpleasant conversation about trauma in general. Yet, here...
How Did Women’s Stories Become Lost in the Bible?
How did the stories of powerful women, warriors, prophets, and heroes, become so buried in the Bible? Wouldn’t we want to celebrate and honor these women of renown?