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object smatter
I’m starting over. I was into a wonderful, rambling post about further musings on belief, and. Well. Maybe it wouldn’t have been wonderful to try plowing through on your way to a zillion other blogs, distractions, and weekend activities. So I shall attempt to concise things up a bit for next week. Anyway, one of … Continue reading
the object matters
This culture is hung up on the way the word “belief” gets understood. I’m stymied by it as often as anybody. It rankles to hear someone say there is a right way to believe. My term in an old journal was “right-angled faith.” I wanted to write a book about how this is wrong. A … Continue reading
wednesday’s word: renewed
Though on the outside, wasting (perishing, decaying, you fill in the blank), the inward me is renewed day by day. ~Paul of Tarsus What has renewed you?
still, stories happen
This site’s subtitle should perhaps read differently. Maybe “an old wife writer who thinks about belief.” But I do still prefer “capturing a story’s glimmer,” because it’s a goal of sorts. In the practice of this life and craft I am motivated by seeking to let the stories near me shine. There are some beauties. … Continue reading
theophany
First I said no. Tim asked if I would come with him to the Theophany service at St. John’s Tuesday morning (7:00 a.m.). I looked at loss – of writing time, of a weekly Bible study at a friend’s home where deer graze outside the windows. I told Tim I didn’t have the energy to … Continue reading
differences close to home
Yesterday morning I greeted Tim near the warming woodstove with this thought: “I’ve figured out the difference between my church preferences and Orthodoxy.” “Figured out” is maybe a stretch, but I had made a leap in my thinking process. It’s fantasy vs. realism all over again. From the first, our daughter, Victoria, loved fantasy stories. … Continue reading
holiday shamble, pretty all right
It’s Christmas time, and time for a little gratefulness, joy, and humility on my part. A holiday is a holy day – for me this holy “day” always lasts two or three weeks. For good or ill, the ordinary workings of life slip to the sidelines, as my family celebrates the birthdays of two children … Continue reading
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still a gift
I wish to begin some reflections on the gift I’ve carried inside me the past ten years. At the end of 1999, my individual existence was given a gleam of real life, and it has never dimmed. I entered into a rag-tag group of followers, dedicated to seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching the intended … Continue reading
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worn and lovely
When the computer whirs, and its one little flashing eye turns steady yellow, I tap my fingers on the keyboard wrist guard, hoping I’ll remember what I was going to a certain site for when I get there. Then I sigh and lean into my chair. In the background our washing machine chugs along as … Continue reading
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a tremble
The huge knife with gleaming blade stayed put in my grip as always, but my hold on reality took its tumble. Sometimes this happens, probably due to hormones. More likely, it’s the imagination-on-steroids I’ve possessed since birth. As I worked the knife into the stubborn winter squash’s hull, my wrist weakening with my resolve for … Continue reading
Posted in belief, embracing dorkhood, life
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