As Elsa sings in the new movie, Frozen 2, the unknown is a scary place. It can be anxiety provoking to have no control over the future and have no idea what it holds.
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My friend,
You are invited
to go to your
Facebook/ Instagram/ Twitter/ social media whatever
and scroll…
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No one tells you about the adjustment phase when you get married—when you’re adjusting to life together and encountering everything that your partner does differently than you.
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Where does this newsletter find you?
In the midst of this Coronavirus moment in history,
Many people are thinking about community this week. How do we create and maintain it in the age of social distancing? We are collectively learning and relearning that social and physical contact matters.
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The rock face was wet. Water streamed from above his head down to his feet where it just stopped. There must have been a crack or hole just where the path met the cliff wall, because the dust of the path was only slightly impeded by the waterfall.
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“He is around thirty pounds, with shaggy gray hair, a spotted tongue, his name is Barnaby, and I have had him for about fifteen years,” I say into the phone. “Yep, we definitely have your dog,” says the other person on the other end of the line.
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I rouse to the melody of my alarm, and before my eyes can blink open and fully take in the light, my stomach tightens into knots. My dog Scout stirs, licks my hand, but she doesn’t yet rise.
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“Absolute distinction.”
Incommensurable worlds. Dialectically opposed. Right and wrong, black and white, in and out.
A parable, this parable, invites us into the space between incommensurable worlds.
Have you ever stood in the middle of a party, telling a fascinating anecdote, only to realize no one is listening? We shrink into ourselves shocked by the sight of our revealed selves. It is a brief moment of total disconnection and exposure.
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Imagine.
ɪˈmædʒ.ɪn
Imagine is a word that fills the mouth.
For the next four weeks, the “Wisdom for the Way” will explore the parable, “The Jeweller,” from Soren Kierkegaard’s Stages of Life’s Way.
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Something has happened. Something is different.
Is it my shoulders? Well...they don’t feel so heavy, hmm.
My jaw...it has been so tight lately... why, it has released, and I can move it all about!
And my chest...oh how I can breathe in so fully!
Who am I becoming? As Scrooge encounters a future without him, rippling with the effects of a life long-lived under his miserly virtues and values, he comes face to face with the impact of his actions, the harvest of seeds long-sown.
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Seeing light coming from the other room, Scrooge peeks inside to find that sure enough, the next ghost has paid his visit.
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Charles Dickens’s response to widespread apathy for the plight of the poor was to write A Christmas Carol. We owe the humanitarian spirit of the Christmas season to this work.
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There is something coming.
Quick, before it is too late, listen.
Do you hear the sound of the oboe? Do you hear the tuning of the violins? Do you hear the rustle of the music on the stand?
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Jang-Mi Min was a person of private passion. Reserved to most, she was said by those closest to her to have an electric current of desire, for a few things, pulsing through her.
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He wiped the tears from His eyes, sighed a bit too heavily, and knocked the dust off of His sandals.
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Most Tanzanians are peaceful, but Marwa’s tribe thought machetes were meant to be used for more than cutting up firewood. They were great for keeping your women in line too.
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