tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172028594179352192024-03-14T04:09:36.168-05:00Madre's Musingsplaying hide and seek with God...mostly I do the hiding.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.comBlogger418125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-41558715172002200852013-06-03T11:57:00.002-05:002013-06-21T10:28:37.027-05:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-64220076953896945212013-04-02T17:00:00.003-05:002013-04-02T17:00:49.631-05:00Virtual Studio<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Some of my (in)spired sisters and I have been talking and dreaming about our studios* (<a href="http://motherjulie.blogspot.com/2013/03/studios-that-inspire.html">go here</a>). I have been meaning to open our virtual studio and then life got in the way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">So without further ado, here it is....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">and our door...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Inside you will find love, support, laughter, joy, a place to be safely you, and the One who created the heavens and the earth. You will also find this...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">And this...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I am going to bring my favorite art supplies and my baby hedgehog. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">*a studio is any place you create art**</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">**art is what you create to make this world a better place. Some of us cook, some write, some paint, some sew, some take pictures. We are all artists, we just use different tools.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-42431344042056734162013-03-30T10:24:00.001-05:002013-03-30T10:24:40.938-05:00Holy Saturday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><i>finds me in tears</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><i>as i struggle to find words.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><i>i want to dirty my hands</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><i>that i may clean my heart.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><i>Come Lord Jesus.</i></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-33021456240156165502013-03-24T15:48:00.002-05:002013-03-24T15:48:30.558-05:00heading into Holy Week<br />
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me through this week</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The mere physicality of the week is
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>It is compounded by the unseen battle<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Arm me with your truth<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Guide me with your Spirit<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Lead me with your Word<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hold me in your arms<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Carry me through with your love<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>May my words belong to you<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>May my ear be open to your whisper<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>May my actions bring you glory<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>May my strength be yours<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>May my life be resurrected too</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-21147085919743768312013-03-23T05:00:00.000-05:002013-03-23T05:00:06.579-05:00<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><i>this weekend...</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">233. grieving together as the family of God<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">234. a sister checking in because I have been too
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">238. realizing as full as this ama’s heart can
get, there is still more love to give<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">239. sharing the chocolate kind of kisses last
thing at night<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">184. baby cows playing tag<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">189. people from the past breaking into the
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">190. a safe place to just breathe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">191. gathering with colleagues for worship<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">192. my silly puppy’s happy noise when mommy and
daddy both come home<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">193. making the choice for community rather than
isolation<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">194. the continual reminder that it is harder to
love than to walk away sometimes and knowing that loving is the greater gift in
the end<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">195. that this broken me is a beloved child of God
who is loved even when I am a hot mess<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">196. remembering that sometimes being tired is
just about being tired<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">197. <a href="http://motherjulie.blogspot.com/2013/03/spiritual-midwives.html">spiritual midwives and words that flowtalking about them</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">198. da baby running<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">201. homework again<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">202. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GritandGrace?fref=ts">Grit & Grace</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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thinking I am getting to go to bed early
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folks on the journey<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-67931135705222397482013-03-08T09:31:00.001-06:002013-03-08T09:31:53.001-06:00Spiritual Midwives<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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like Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus. I think of Deborah and Rahab and Ruth. I think of the widows who were persistent and
the one at the well. I think of those who
may have had a hand in writing the words we read today.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the church I think of those women who have gone
before me. Those like the Philadelphia 11
and Florence Li Tim-Oi and Katharine Jefferts Schori. Yet I also think of those women who have
been faithful to the church whose names have never been recorded. Those who gave of their hearts and souls in
ways many did not see. Those who
polished the brass and silver, arranged the flowers, waxed the pews, and prayed
without ceasing for the church and its people.
Those who showed up and gave week after week in faithfulness to a place
that did not always value them. They are
spiritual midwives as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In my own life there have been teachers, mothers of
friends, childhood friends, and those occasional superstars like my first grade
teacher who taught me a love for books (that would become an escape from a
painful world when I needed it). While I
wish for more tangible memories there are the stories and the emotional
memories of the grandmothers who loved me and prayed for me daily. Those hints of hugs and smells and smiles
that have been lost with age yet their patina of recollection colors my soul
today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are those women who believe in God sized
dreams and write from the heart about being a woman, a mom, a sister, a child
of God who stumbles and still triumphs. I
won’t name names because many you know, but most you don’t. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are those women like the young mother
who is reaching out to other single moms or the one who touches others
struggling with PPD. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The ones who create
art in words or paint or fabric to tell the story of telling the truth and
encourage me to do the same. <o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are the sisters God has sent into my life. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The one who believed in my call to ordained
ministry and walked with me for coming on twenty years even when I was running
from God. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The one I met on a holy
mountain who taught me to trust women for the first time ever and who teaches
me daily about laughing in Wal-Mart and breathing when I can do nothing
else. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The one who helped me untangle the
knots who I still run into from time to time and even now gives those life giving hugs
that help put me back together. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The one I met
in a little southern town who prays for me when I have no words. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The one from high school who is finding joy
in the pain of living into her new life. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The one I have never met in person who I trust with the hot mess me
because God shows me daily she is safe. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
daughter who battles against the odds for the beautiful grace filled gift I call
da baby. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">And da baby who surprises us
every day as she reaches another mark and jumps another hurdle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tears flow as these words fly…oh how lucky I am!</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why do I forget these women who show me how
to live, love, laugh, and breathe? </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">These
women I meet in the Bible, the church, and always in Wal-Mart. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a90b7c; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">How can I feel alone when some have walked
before me and many walk with me even now?</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Those I already
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">162. meeting lots of new people who believe in
children<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">163. fresh raspberries in the winter<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">164. organizing cabinets<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">165. help remembering that I am healthy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">166. silly puppies who greet me at the door when I
am sad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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moment<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and racing the wind<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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“</span></span><span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Segoe Print';"><span style="font-size: large;">If God seems distant or
uncommunicative these days, maybe you’re simply not listening. God doesn’t
shout: God’s first language is silence. Maybe in your prayers you are doing too
much talking and not enough listening.” –
Br. Geoffrey Tristram</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: large;">When we talk about
being creative most of us have a picture of our dream studio that comes to
mind. </span><span style="color: green; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: large;">For now though we tell ourselves
we would do more art, more reading, more praying, more fill in the blank if
only we had such a space.</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">We talk ourselves
out of being creative because the “perfect” space isn’t there. "That” room is for guests or kids or a play
room or a home office. How much is that we don’t give space to the
creative? Or is it feeling we don’t
“deserve” the space? Or is it that we
are afraid?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">I know for me it
was a mix of all of those things and likely many more I don’t want to look at
yet. </span></span><span style="color: green; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: large;">In talking with my
(in)spired sisters it is clear that even without the dream studio that need to
create finds its way into our current spaces…</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #0033cc;"><span style="font-size: large;">“My
studio space right now is the corner of my couch, with projects piled on the
end table and under the end table. *sigh* Wishing for the energy to set up
another space, a "real" one, in my basement. For now, the couch and
table are my real create space.”</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990099;"><span style="font-size: large;">“My
chair in the living room with TV trays to hold my stuff. I do have an easel
that I set up there too.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">“ My
current preferred space is one of my kitchen counters...I like the height and
being able to stand while I create - plus access to the sink. But it gets a bit
dicey when I need the counter space to actually cook and the art isn't
finished, yet.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #0066cc;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The
kitchen sink or a table in the living room behind the couch”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: green; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">For the first time in my life I have my own “studio.” We had a guest room with few guests now that
our nest is empty. So I covered the bed
with an old door and added a card table.
Ta-da! </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: green; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">My first ever space that
was all mine to create, be messy, and play.
My art and more supplies than I have ever had before have taken over
(and I can move the door if we do have guests).</span></span></i></div>
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about birthday promises that include one converting a home office into a studio space
and another remaking a portion of the empty nest into the studio. One sister even moved taking an art class up
on her priority list. Another is going
to paint a room and put her paintings on a wall in her space.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: green; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">God has given us the ability.
We have the space (even if it is a tiny corner in a room or on the
couch). We have the creativity in
us. What stumbling blocks keep us from
taking the space and using the gifts God has given us?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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you from claiming the space and the ability to co-create with God? <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: green; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Join us next week as we begin putting our (in)spired studio into
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<span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">141. da baby giggling on the phone when Ama says “funny”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-54921689809459091562013-02-20T06:00:00.000-06:002013-02-20T06:00:01.180-06:00shyness unmasked<br />
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">For an extrovert I can be really shy
…ok maybe not shy. </span><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Can one really be an
extrovert and shy at the same time?</span><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Apparently
one can according to a quick Google search.</span><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">But this thing, it doesn’t seem like it is shy.</span><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">For as much as I long for community and reach
for it, I am beginning to realize how much I run from it when it comes my way.</span><span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I recently had the chance to begin
moving into a deeper relationship with a woman I met through an (in)courage
group. For some reason we connected via
conversations about life, faith, children, and grandchildren. She sees something in me that led her to reach
out. I was honored and blessed because I
think she is a great writer and she is a hero in many ways. Yet each time we were supposed to chat via
phone or computer, I suddenly “had something come up.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then you know that one friend who
has seen you at your absolute worst? You
know the one who has shared too many tissues, too much chocolate? The one you call when the tears are coming so
hard she can’t understand you, but reminds you to breathe any way? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yea, her… She recently moved even further away and we
have talked about Skype time, but I just <b>couldn’t</b> do it. Why?
Well…she would see me. I mean <b>SEE
</b>me. The day off, tired, cranky, grubby
clothes me who was in the midst of a pity party me. And that wouldn’t be pretty. (yes she has seen me at my worst, but this
was “different”).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As I tried to unpack the baggage
that goes with the disconnect between my love of connecting with people and
sharing stories and this me that runs away from community, I realize this is
nothing new.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It goes back to that same place I
hid as a little girl and then as a teenager and later as a single mother. The one who was afraid to let people in because
they would see the real me. The one who
had secrets at home. The one who tried
so hard to fit in she belonged nowhere. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you don’t see the real me, you
can’t dislike me, right? Or so I told
myself (and others apparently). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I finally was brave enough to
be honest to the (hopefully still) new friend and my sister friend it was like
an elephant crawled off my chest. Oh it
wasn’t easy, but I did it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I even lasted longer than 30 seconds
on Skype. Joshua Brayden Beast stayed
right there and let me pet him to stay almost calm. And I even said the words out loud. <b>I.
Am. Afraid.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Last year I read this <a href="http://www.chattingatthesky.com/the-books/grace-for-the-good-girl/">great book</a> and
took part in an online study group about masks.
For all I got out of it, I have quickly unlearned just as much. That mask taker upper has reemerged in my
life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As one who seriously lives a
liturgical life (even my table cloth at home matches the season) I am living
that desert time called Lent. That time
of heading into the desert to face the tempter and temptations. The ones that take my eyes off God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I look in the mirror, I realize
the biggest tempter stares back at me right there in the mirror. Her eyes that won’t quite meet mine. The tilt to her head that she thinks keeps
her safe. She is frightened and that is
sinful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because she is wonderfully and
fearfully made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By a God who loves her even more
than the friend who sees her at her worst.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And that running? She isn’t running from intimacy with friends
or even herself…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She is running from God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because there? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is no hiding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And that has nothing to do with
shyness and everything to do with fear and doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She is going to try to be
brave. She is asking those who love her
(including God) to not let her hide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And maybe someday that mask taker
upper can be patted gently on the head and thanked for helping her hide when
she needed to, but now? Now she doesn’t
need masks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Segoe Script","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Right in the palm of God’s hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">http://www.virtue31.org/2012/02/scripture-of-day.html</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-21087792615973950552013-02-19T11:32:00.000-06:002013-02-19T11:32:19.938-06:00First Sunday in Lent 2013<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Here is Sunday's sermon as requested:<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb9sm2G0FjLO-IohU-i54lcP524QMp3F6p5-kjacXZ43_XK_Zthqmh6jKftx57R7BBj6pmeZE43OcUSOmCVkZN9dyeJP2DJ1ufa65N5rdRH8gc92j8ChjU4An_9UES_NFyl4NZf7i8Bm4/s1600/desert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb9sm2G0FjLO-IohU-i54lcP524QMp3F6p5-kjacXZ43_XK_Zthqmh6jKftx57R7BBj6pmeZE43OcUSOmCVkZN9dyeJP2DJ1ufa65N5rdRH8gc92j8ChjU4An_9UES_NFyl4NZf7i8Bm4/s400/desert.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: xx-small;">http://sacredspaces2004.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/sacred-spaces-326-jesus-in-the-desert-have-a-good-lenten-journey/</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">We are back in Lent (again, weren’t we just here?). </span><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">A time the church observes every year and one
we treat less like a joy and more like a flu shot. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We understand that Lent is necessary, that it's good for us in
much the same way as Brussel sprouts or spinach might be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">A recent twitter chat held by the Huffington Post made it clear
that not only are most of us who say we observe Lent unable to explain it, we
have limited understanding of why we observe it. We still do not understand it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We take part in it by adding spiritual disciplines to our
routines or giving things up without looking at the reason behind our actions.
We do these things sometimes for no other reason than that we have always done
it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We add a new bible study; attend Morning Prayer, increase our time
in personal prayer. We cut out white sugar,
caffeine, or red meat. We tell others we
to do these things for forty days to prepare ourselves for the celebration of
the resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">To an outsider it likely seems more like a diet or preparation
for a spiritual marathon. If we don't
have a good explanation for our Lenten behaviors, if we don't seem to fully
understand the focus of the season, how meaningful is what we do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Let’s look at the words shared on Ash Wednesday in the Book of
Common Prayer (page 264): <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">The first Christians observed with great devotion
the days of our Lord's passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of
the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This
season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were
prepared for Holy Baptism. It was also a time when those who, because
of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the
faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored
to the fellowship of the Church. Thereby, the whole congregation was
put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the
Gospel of our Savior, and of the need which all Christians continually
have to renew their repentance and faith. I invite you, therefore, in the name
of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and
repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating
on God's holy Word.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Lent is then a time to prepare for Easter according to our traditions.</span><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Through self examination and spiritual
disciplines we prepare for Easter.</span><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">In the Revised Common Lectionary every first Sunday of Lent we
travel with Jesus into the desert after his baptism by John. This is to remind us of other biblical
retreats, yet it is different from the retreats of Moses, Elijah, and the
Israelites. The forty days Jesus spends
in the desert follows the tradition that taught that it takes forty days for
one to hear from God. Yet Jesus has
already heard God, in fact is God, so why retreat into the desert? Jesus knows already God intimately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Is it about his interaction with the tempter? In this time he is both fully man and fully
divine. None of the temptations
presented to Jesus are outside the realm of his power. At any time he could have left the
wilderness, could have filled his belly, changed his circumstances. Yet he stayed until the “testing” was over. Why? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Perhaps the lesson for us today has less to do with what we do
during Lent and more to do with why we observe Lent. Paul’s words have been used as license for
cheap grace…. </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 13.5pt;">if
you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.</span><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">If that is all it takes, there is no need to observe a holy
Lent. The work is done, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I go back again to the tempter. If we think we need do nothing at all, he has
won. We are not consumers of Lent though,
rather we are children of God in need of mending. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I believe that is why we are called into a holy Lent. To remove those distractions, those
temptations, those pitfalls that we and our society place in the way of our
relationship with God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">This time with Jesus in the desert is more about remembering
that on our own we will never win the battle.
Just as Jesus waited there in that seemingly barren place, so too are we
called to wait with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">We are children of God who win the battle only as we surrender
our wills, our hearts, and our souls to the One who loves us unconditionally. Our external actions are not those that count
during Lent; our motivations and intentions are what matter. Not human affirmation, but rather those
things we do that glorify God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">That is how we experience a holy Lent. This time in the desert is the time to meet
the tempter and our temptations and surrender those things that take our eyes
off of the God who loves us in spite of those obstacles we let fall in the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">So whether we wore ashes all day last Wednesday, wiped them off as
soon as we got to the car, or never had ashes imposed, a holy Lent is a time
about the heart, not action. It is not
about the bible study, the lack of red meat; it is about a heart set toward
God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Stop and listen, let go the rush and noise.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Let all that you are wait quietly before God.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Let the busyness of your body rest,</div>
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Let the worries of your mind rest,</div>
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Let the doubts of your heart rest.</div>
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Hear God's call to holiness.</div>
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Allow the Spirit to transform and recreate,</div>
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Busyness into peace,</div>
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Worry into trust,</div>
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Doubt into hope.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Let all that is
within you rest and find God.</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">(c) Christine Sine</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://godspace.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #3b5998; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">http://godspace.wordpress.com/</span></a> (used with permission)<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-83377581303301808332013-02-18T14:25:00.001-06:002013-02-18T14:25:57.136-06:00multitudes on monday ~ february eighteenth <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i>here are my gifts,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i>not that i want</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i>but those i already have</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i>given by the Giver of all</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>121. modern day heroes</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>122. this outside my window</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>123. blueberry pancakes</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>124. my last prayer with a beloved reminding them they are dust</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>125. imposing ashes with clergy colleagues in a coffee shop </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>126. a sister's hands on my shoulders in prayer when i have no words</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>127. burning palms with one who "gets it"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>128. da baby's first day of school</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>129. transforming a space into a holy place</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>130. heading into the desert with Jesus</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>131. connecting those who have gifts with those who need them</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>132. re-remembering i need not "copy" someone to be an artist</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>133. learning new tricks</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>134. Lent Madness</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>135. my first ever attempt at spreecast</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>136. blankets fresh out of the dryer</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>137. remembering it is about true love </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>138. unexpected lunch plans</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>139. words that help me remember why i do what i do</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>140. reality checks that stretch in the best of ways</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><i>not that i want,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>101. being silent in community</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>102. sunsets on the mountain</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">103. morning naps </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>104. <a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=227535062">Isaiah 54</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit;"><i>105. </i></span><i style="color: #3d85c6;">epiphanies about sacred space</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i>113. food made in love</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="color: #666666;">for many reasons. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="color: #666666;">Today i had requests to post, </span></span></div>
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time set apart. On a mountain. With God.
It does something to and for a person.
The Celtic Christians call such places and times “thin.” Places and moments the distance between
heaven and earth is so thin you can almost reach out and touch heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">This
morning we see Moses as he comes down from Mount Sinai. He has been with God. As he comes from the mountain, his face is glowing
from being in the presence of God. Aaron
and the Israelites are afraid and hesitate to come near him. Moses places a veil over his face, a covering
signifying he is no longer in the presence of God. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is the Moses who sees a burning bush and argues with God about going to pharaoh
and leading his people out of bondage.
He says he can’t speak well. God
still wants Moses. God gives Moses a
fancy stick and his brother Aaron as a spokesperson. Remember the end of the story? Today we remember what happens when Moses
allows his time with God to transform him and his people. Moses has been to a thin place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Moses
did not want to be a leader, yet he became one of the father’s of our faith and
his stories are preserved for all time.
A man who tried to run from God, a man who then lets himself be
transformed by God. On a mountain, in a
thin place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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heads up a mountain with Peter, John, and James. Suddenly Jesus’ face changes and his clothes
become white. Moses and Elijah appear. Peter
is so astounded by what he is seeing comes up with a plan to build houses for
Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. Perhaps hoping
to capture this thin place for all time.
Then a cloud covers them and they become afraid. In the cloud they hear, “this is my son, my
chosen, listen to him.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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often focus on Jesus when we talk about the transfiguration and what happens to
him in this thin place, but for now, let us look at Peter, James, and John. In this time on the mountain they are
transformed by God. They are in a thin
place that day. These ordinary men who go
on to do great things. They are by no
means perfect, one will even deny Jesus later, yet in this thin place, God
transforms them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Gathered
with our bishop and canon and other clergy on a holy mountain I was blessed to
be in a thin place this week. One many
of you know well. In our time together
we reflected on letting the veil between us and God be lifted. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">We
looked at how we make a place thick….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">how
we block God from our presence…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">how
we so fill our time with “stuff” that the barrier between heaven and earth
becomes a place so thick we can no longer get to the other side. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Unlike Moses and his
veil, we put things between ourselves and God in the guise of being in control
and being productive. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Our
speaker, Canon Peter Doll, called these our “default settings.” Those things we hold onto that place barriers
between God and ourselves. We get so
good at moving to these default settings that we lose sight of the holy. We allow ourselves to be transformed by the
world rather than by God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet
God continues to beckon us from the other side of that veil. God continues to reach out to each of
us. Here in this place, we are able to
meet God in one another, at this table, in our prayers, and even in our
silence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">In
those times, do we allow God to transform us?
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Do
we allow ourselves to step into that thin place? That place where for just a moment the veil
drops and we are once again in God’s presence?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Soon
we head from the time of Immanuel, God with us, into a season of
reflection. A time set aside to go into
the desert with Jesus. A place we often
fear and yet truly a thin place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">Will
we allow ourselves to be in God’s presence in this season of Lent? To let the veil drop? To let God become our default setting once
more?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">One
of the ways we allow a place to become thin is the journey we take, the
pilgrimage. A place is made holy because
the people of God make it holy. We have
times we get so caught up in busy-ness that we forget we come to holy places
and there we are able to journey. Journeys
with God that can take place right where we are…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">through bible study<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">prayer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">quiet time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">physical acts that
quiet our minds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">and in many other
ways.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">This
life of faith is a journey. A journey back
to God. A journey to thin places. Those places we experience God. Those places we let God transform us. The God who If we do not seek, we are
unlikely to find.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">As
we enter lent we are given the perfect time to enter a journey back to
God. A time to voluntarily go into exile
from those things that place barriers in our hearts and lives. Barriers between God and ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">My
brothers and sisters, will you journey with me into the cloud of
unknowing? To the mountain to be with
God? To return again to our default
setting that allows God to work in and through us? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><span style="font-size: large;">In
this season to come, will you allow God to transform us? To remember again how to dream dreams of
God? To show our love for God by
resuming our mission to love God, God’s creation, and our neighbors?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">Stop and listen, let go the rush and noise.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">Let all that you are wait quietly before God.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Let the busyness of your body rest,</div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Let the worries of your mind rest,</div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Let the doubts of your heart rest.</div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Hear God's call to holiness.</div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Allow the Spirit to transform and recreate,</div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Busyness into peace,</div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Worry into trust,</div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
Doubt into hope.</div>
</span>
<span class="textexposedshow"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Let all that is
within you rest and find God.</span></div>
</span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">
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<span class="textexposedshow">(c) Christine Sine</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://godspace.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #3b5998; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">http://godspace.wordpress.com/</span></a>
(used with permission)<span style="font-family: "Segoe Print";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><b>i wanna be a rebel</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>who puts the mouse down</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>and picks up my hands to seek after you</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>i wanna run to your love</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>rather than from human fires</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><b>i want to be thirsty for water</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>living water</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>i wanna break the chains</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>that tie me to the earth</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>i want to seek You</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>that others may also find You </b></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13929668949379387864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517202859417935219.post-52412986173332108432013-02-08T06:00:00.000-06:002013-02-08T06:00:12.696-06:00labyrinth <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">heading in my steps are leaden</span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>the journey seems long</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>the end in sight</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">then lost again</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>desolation overtakes</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>then center found</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">communion shared</span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>arms uplifted</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>knees strengthened</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>the reminder i am never lost from Abba's sight</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the journey out </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>steps come quickly</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">like running down a hill</span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>hands held by my father</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>the One who holds me dear</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>this journey of stone</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>a re-remembering ...</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><i>i am never ever alone.</i></span></div>
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