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Hope for the New Year
This morning, I noticed that I have been writing a lot about hope lately. Often, I write thinking of the audience. I think of what
01/13/2021
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This Is The Moment
What are you doing right now with your life? At this moment – right here, right now, what is happening? Someone, somewhere, has shared this
01/06/2021
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Merry Christmas from JSC
Dear reader, I don’t usually write poetry, but if you’ll humor me- I have some free verse for you. Merry Christmas.  A Christmas Poem  Before our ad-vene,  Already
12/30/2020
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What is Prayer Like for You?
My spiritual director asked me this question during one of our meetings. We were talking over Zoom, and it was pleasant to see the trees
12/23/2020
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Waiting and Preparing
The interesting thing about the season of advent is that it is a time for both waiting and preparing. If that sounds paradoxical, it should.
12/17/2020
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Be Here Now
Welcome to the middle of the second week of Advent. Being nearly halfway through the season, it feels hard to believe how quickly Christmas is
12/09/2020
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Hopeful Preparations
Another Advent is upon us, and with it comes another opportunity to prepare for Christmas. It took too many years for me to understand why
12/02/2020
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An Exercise in Gratitude
As we prepare to enter this celebration of Thanksgiving, I can’t help but find myself wrestling with my inner search for gratitude amidst the tumult of this year. What do we do when we feel powerless to find the blessings of life?
11/25/2020
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The World of the Virtual Retreat
I remember being in 5th grade when the first iPhone came out, and how rare it was for my peers or the teenagers that I knew to have one of these. Now,
11/18/2020
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Hope
What does hope look like to you? Everybody has the capacity to make art. If you were in the music room, or in front of
11/11/2020
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