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Starlight and Slippers

Catherine Smith2020-12-30T15:37:52-04:00Categories: Sermons, Uncategorized|Tags: Challenge, Christmas, Epiphany, imagination, magi, Matthew 1:1-12, risk, story, wisemen, worldview|

  Matthew 2:1-12 There was an Epiphany that found me travelling home from a small town the other side of Toronto.  I carried, along with all [...]

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Lent Five: Hearts Looking

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:08-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Francis of Assisi, Lent, risk, seeing, Zacchaeus|

  This week we gathered around the story of Zacchaeus, another story of heart and seeing. We reflected on a Zacchaeus sermon Seeing Saints which you [...]

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“The Frames of Your Belonging”

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:09-04:00Categories: Reflections|Tags: call, Discernment, John O'Donohue, risk|

  I love this phrase set within John O’Donohue’s larger blessing.  “May you listen to your longing to be free/May the [...]

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O Spirit Come

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:10-04:00Categories: Prayers|Tags: Invocation, pentecost, prayer, risk, Spirit, wonder|

O dove O fire O breath O tide O wave O water like laughter […]

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Seeing Saints

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:31-04:00Categories: Sermons|Tags: All Saints, church, invitation, longing, risk, story|

  Luke 19:1-10 This day near the threshold of All Saints, I invite you into this morning’s story looking for saints. I invite you to enter [...]

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What kind of fool are you?

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:31-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: call, fools, listening, ministry, risk, vocation|

Image:  Sharon Boggon (Creative Commons) Today is the first day of the week.  And it is most clearly the day on which I am [...]

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The Gift of a Question

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:59-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: freedom, question, risk, vulnerability, Wholeness, wisdom|

A wise woman gave me a question. “What would it look like in this moment to take one small step in the direction of Love?” It [...]

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