[god in the yard] gone: presence
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Every day I practice looking for Him. I have read Brother Lawrence. He taught me to look. And Ann tells me how not to practice, but how to abide. Still, I miss Him some days. No matter how I look. Or how I don’t. Some days my heart is a stone and the heaviness weighs [...]
[god in the yard] rules: the way
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Welcome to the world, he says, when I carefully part the branches for him to see. There are only three and so we know. One of the hatchlings did not make it. But this somber knowledge gives way to joy as the babies detect our presence and, mistaking us for mother, open mouths wide for [...]
[the mystery of the cross] part 3: early signs of faith
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I wear this cross around my neck, sometimes never giving it a thought. It is so much a part of me that I often take for granted what it represents. To me, it symbolizes my faith. But to early Christians, the cross held a much more complicated meaning. Judith Couchman opens Part Three–Early Signs of [...]
[real-time connections] chapter 9: making space for everyone
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I don’t know what I expected when I volunteered to lead the discussion on chapter nine of our BibleDude group blogging project, but it wasn’t a discussion on religious freedom. With a title like Making Space For Everyone, I was thinking tolerance; I was thinking love (I like to talk about those things). Bob Roberts, [...]
