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Tag Archives: Music
Life in the Desert
In an attempt to lure you into looking at some earlier slices of life in the desert, I am going to reprint the page called The Beginning. I would ask that when you finish reading these brief paragraphs, you click … Continue reading
Inheriting Treasure
Would you explain to me why some people want everything to be new? I have never understood that. Why would you want the things you buy to be just like what your neighbor has? I am sometimes asked why I … Continue reading
A Song and A Sign
[This blog post was written the day it happened, Thursday 22 December 2016. I’ve debated whether this narrative should ever see the light of day. Many of my readers don’t know me from Adam, and so might be skeptical, not … Continue reading
Nashville and Risk Taking
Four more days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and then my last day of work at my present place of employment on Thursday. I find it rather darkly humorous that the song running through my head for the past ten days is … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, Life in these times, Marriage, Responsibility
Tagged Faith, Freedom, Marriage, Money, Music, Our choices, Unemployment
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The Best Time of the Year, Even When it Isn’t
We are in the weeks before Christmas. For some, it means parties and shopping and better food than usual. For observant Christians, today is the second Sunday of Advent. We are preparing for the arrival of God, born of Mary. … Continue reading
The Color is White
I wrote a blog post yesterday and it is already on the scrap pile. A misstep and wrong direction. I begin again. Today I went to my occasional second job, playing the electric keyboard (which they call an organ) for … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Heaven
Tagged All Saints, Blessings, Christian witness, Faith, Funeral, Grief, Liturgy, Music, Reformation, Worship
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Just Weird
Life is weird. Appliances or gadgets that run quietly in the background of life suddenly quit working and suck time out of your day. Relationships that mean the world to you and that you thought were rock solid turn out … Continue reading
The Intersection of How We Speak and Wanting a Seat in the Pew…
This last Sunday my husband and I accepted an invitation from friends to attend church with them. It is a very different denomination than ours and we talked with them before we accepted the invitation saying that we were seeking … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Changing hearts, Christian witness, Faith, Music, Worship
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Wanting a Seat in the Pew
September 1, 2014 I don’t belong to a church. I am unchurched. For me it is the largest hole in my heart. Every day it haunts me. Every day I ponder how to solve it. Every day I pray about … Continue reading