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  [god in the yard] project wordle

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  Hmmm… I wonder what this says about what we talked about… Amazon.com Widgets
   
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  [god in the yard] @llbarkat’s closing thoughts

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  Sometimes people want to know. If they were to come to my yard, would they find me out there still? Sitting on the red sled, sipping my tea? I don’t want to disappoint anyone. I want to be the writer on the red sled. Braving the mosquitoes, dodging the rain. [...]
   
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  [god in the yard] home: hospitality

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  “Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” Romans 12:13 Hospitality. The word evokes for me images of church fellowship halls, lined with long tables, loaded with steaming offerings for the Sunday afternoon potluck dinner. I can smell the coffee, hear the buzz of conversation, and feel the [...]
   
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  [god in the yard] with: submission

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  I hate the word “submission.”   I do not want to submit to anyone, preferring to run full-force into the dark, rather than listen, rather than abide, rather than be controlled.  Perhaps this is why I have not yet married; I am afraid that submissive wife is akin to marital slave. [...]
   
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  [god in the yard] me: self care

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  The scream of the coffee grinder startles me and I’m finally awake. “Good Lord, it’s morning.” I whisper coarsely, and I wonder how I got into the kitchen. I smell the freshly ground beans, and I briefly wonder what they’d taste like if I’d pour milk over them and eat [...]
   
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  [god in the yard] poetry: silence

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  Secretly we spoke, that wise one and me. I said, Tell me the secrets of the world. He said, Sh… Let silence Tell you the secrets of the world. -Rumi Silence. Be still and know that I am God. Elijah was unable to hear the voice of God until the [...]
   
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  [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 [...]
   
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  [god in the yard] open: prayer

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  He walks through the kitchen, pauses behind me as I reach into the pantry. Catches me as I turn back around: “So, what are you doing right now?” I giggle all flustered, murmur something about a million little things, and dodge. Later I am the one passing through the living [...]
   
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  [god in the yard] sky: gratitude

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  When I was young I talked to the night sky.  I’d sit on a chaise lounge in the backyard or lie on the pool deck and stare at the stars—or what I could see of them from my suburban homestead. I did most of the talking and never let the [...]
   
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  [god in the yard] weep: celebration

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  We spend… too little time experiencing the griefs themselves. The result is that these griefs remain hidden and never open us to our joys. ~David Whyte Fingers lightly wrapped around the handles, I escape. I feel the vibration of speed beneath me, my forceful thumb spurrs the four-wheeler forward at [...]
   
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  [god in the yard] look: contemplation

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  Contemplation We have been invited. We have been given the rules. We are now asked to contemplate. Such a loaded word. So much baggage has been packed on those few letters throughout the years. But it is the one I consider as I walk down past three houses then turn [...]