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Sleepers Wake!

What is the melody you hear over and over as the foundation of your spiritual awakenings? Who are the voices you encounter in that duet between your soul and Jesus?

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Advent Alphabet

Everything has a beginning and for many churches – Anglican/Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Orthodox (albeit a bit differently) among others –the church year begins

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God’s Peace

Thanksgiving Day Everyday Mysteries With others she manages a website for the Diocese of Colorado highlighting congregations’ creative ministries:

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Delighting in whales

by Ann Fontaine Yonder is the great and wide sea with its living things too many to number, * creatures both small and great. There

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Keep Awake!

Appropriately, on this first Sunday of our liturgical year, Jesus gives us a wake-up call. He knows we get distracted. He knows we get bored. …Every organ, every cell, every atom of his body is human. But he is also divine… the channel of God’s love for us. And before we can live in that love, we must be awake to it, open to it, actively seeking it, body and soul.

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Holy Welcome

Imagine my surprise, though, when months later, one of the guests said to me, “I never thanked you for Thanksgiving. That was the best holiday I had in a long time! I didn’t have to deal with the pressure of my crazy relatives, and everyone was interesting, and we all did a good job of cooking by committee, didn’t we?”

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Last words

by Linda Ryan Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on

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The Number of Forgiveness

When Jesus told Peter to forgive seventy-seven times, he wasn’t just pulling the figure out of the air. Seven is a number indicating completeness, like seven days in the week for creation. Peter asked if forgiving seven times would be enough but Jesus asked for more than ten times that plus yet another seven, a number that adds rather than multiplies …

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Abiding in Jesus

Everyday Mysteries With others she manages a website for the Diocese of Colorado highlighting congregations’ creative ministries:

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