Category: Grief
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Finish Line
Reflections on Shuffle-Play (the thing where I write a reflection each day on a song from that morning’s run) My husband’s parents died in 2007 – his father, Butch, in January and his mother, Dottie, in August. Our eldest, Owen, was just one year old then and our baby, Jesse, was born in June of […]
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Closing of the Sanctuary
“With thanks to God for the work accomplished in this place, I declare this sanctuary to be vacated for the purposes of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit….” Yesterday I attended the final service in the sanctuary where I went to church […]
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Slippery Strands of Faith
Faith is a funny thing. For some faith is just a lifelong journey beginning with the waters of baptism. It is a beloved relationship. Spirituality may not be something completely understood, but there is nowhere else we are likely to be found on a Sunday morning than right here with our eyes fixed on the […]