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Our Speechless Hearts

August 14, 2020
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Intentional silence is not a retreat into some private piety. Nor is it passive. It is a rugged and sometimes ragged discipline of turning over and over again to offer our speechless hearts. Read the whole article here “The Doorway to Discipleship” by Catherine Smith, Mandate Spring 2020, The United Church of Canada, pp. 24–25,…

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What kind of fool are you?

October 2, 2016
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Today is the first day of the week.  And it is most clearly the day on which I am reminded that I am not practicing the call that whistled through my heart all those years ago;  that call like spring grass, tender and possible.   I am not among the people I yearn to share a…

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