Surrendering to Spring

“April is the cruelest month,” wrote English poet T.S Eliot. I think he’s right. It’s the intensified contradictions. The promise of the perennials pushing through

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Everything Must Go

I logged in to my email this morning to discover an advert for an office supplies company proclaiming loudly in my inbox – “EVERYTHING MUST

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The Absence

God is in the details, someone said. Sometimes it’s the small details that are most arresting. A new book called “All the Flowers in Shanghai”

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The Donkey

It wasn’t just an impromptu, spontaneous procession that Sunday outside of Jerusalem in the year 30 where the supporters and fans of Jesus seated him

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Be Still

       Be Still   The window washers were coming soon and I needed to get the outside water turned on for them.  I

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Hungry

I talked this past Sunday about our inbuilt and innate human desire for connection and belonging.  Like the song says, we want to be wanted

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Falling Down

I fell today.  Hard. There was nothing graceful or elegant about it.  It was a clown fall, a Charlie Chaplain, legs in the air, panic

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PRACTICE

 It was kind of an academic piggy bank.  Each Wednesday morning, my fifth grade teacher at Dodd Elementary in West St. Paul handed out little

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Elbow to Elbow

              Elbow to Elbow Loneliness. At least a half a dozen people have mentioned it to me this week,

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The Problem of Praise

This week’s Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) topic was “The Problem of Praise”, an in depth look at the perils of employing praise to reinforce

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