Last week I was emphatic: I am not broken.  You can make me break a pot, but that doesn’t mean I’m broken.  I was being a bit facetious, I’ve been broken in the past and I know you don’t ever fully recover; but I was only being a bit facetious, part of me believed my [...]

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she made us break the pots. perfectly good ceramic plant pots. big ones. we had to wrap them up in newspaper and hit them with a hammer. perfectly good pots. broken.and then we had to put it back together. no glue gun. just elmer’s glue. put it back together. it’s in pieces on the floor [...]

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We are a crazy people, we who claim to put our trust in a God. It doesn’t make any sense.
In
worship they said we believe in God and that makes everything just
fine, no matter how it seems now. I don’t think they were trying to
make light of painful and shitty situations, but to remind us that
ultimately [...]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about presence lately. It seems so important to be ‘present’ wherever you and whenever you are.
There
is so much in each moment, and it is so easy to miss it. I may be
wrong, but I have this sense that each moment is this whole world -
this huge gift we’re given. And [...]

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It has started for real - this amazing summer I have planned. Most
students at Columbia are doing their internships this summer or Greek
School this summer, but not me. No sir. I have this amazing fellowship
that gave me money and told me to create a summer project that I would
love and I have done just that [...]

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There are moments when everything gets thrown up in the air. You know
the ones I’m talking about? Not the disastrous moments or the
devastating the moments, but the unordered, chaotic moments - the
moments when your world no longer feels as stable as did the moment
before.
Sometimes it’s change that does it. Sometimes it’s
stress or being overwhelmed. Sometimes [...]

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Guide Me Into An Unclenched Moment
Gentle me, Holy One, into an unclenched moment,          a deep breath,                   a letting go                             of heavy expectancies,                                        of [...]

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It seems to me we frequently suffer from failures of imagination. I’m thinking about huge things like world visions of peace and an end to hunger, but I’m also specifically thinking of the little things. How frequently do we find ourselves in situations we just can’t imagine getting out of, at least not [...]

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I had ten minutes before I had to leave for work today. Plenty of time to print out a final copy of my paper, run next door to turn it in and change clothes. So, I pushed print and set the setting and it started and I went to change and came back [...]

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