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Friday, August 30, 2024

Hummingbirds-- a cause for a pause

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taken this afternoon from yet a different perspective-- from inside I put out new hummingbird food this week and have enjoyed watching the h...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

A reflection on soul care from 6 years ago

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I was scrolling through my memories on FaceBook yesterday and this is one of them, a reflection I wrote on August 28, 2018. As I re-read the...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Reflections on the book by Noel Forlini Burt--Hope in the Wilderness: Spiritual Reflections for When God Feels Far Away

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I finished this smallish, thinnish book about a week ago. It has 85 pages of reading, plus a bibliography. Don't let the amount of pages...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Psalm 69 from Psalms for Praying by Nan Merrill

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I was talking with a colleague about prayer yesterday and she mentioned Psalm 69 to me. I looked it up in my favorite Psalm version, Psalms ...

Last minute opportunity to preach last week

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Last Friday evening I saw I had missed a call from earlier that afternoon. I listened to the message and called back as soon as I had the op...

BOOK REVIEW: Looking Inward, Living Outward: The Spiritual Practices of Social Transformation by Daniel Wolpert

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  I have written about this book before on my blog: Looking Inward, Living Outward: The Spiritual Practice of Social Transformation (July 1...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

BOOK REVIEW: Broken to Belong-- a novel by Charity Muse

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I have only written a few book reviews in my life and because it's not something I do very often, it isn't a honed skill for me. How...
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Debra
I taught languages (Spanish and French) and am now an Elder in Full Connection in the UMC (ordained June 2018). I have lived in the south and the northeast (US) and have travelled throughout the US and to about two hand fulls of countries (Mexico, Belgium, Spain, Africa (Ceuta in Morocco), Jamaica, Italy, Canada, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador (tarmac at the airport), Israel, France). In my immediate family I have a husband, a son who graduated art school in 2024 at SVA in NYC, and two step adult kids. We also have Cliff, the dog. In February 2011, I re-entered the world of academia for the M.Div. at Asbury Theological Seminary and graduated May 2015! I took basic training for Lay Speaking in 1988 on Long Island and have been Certified since the 90s. I started teaching Lay Courses Fall 2011 online through BeADisciple.com. I completed the 2 Year Academy for Spiritual Formation in 2013 (#32, bilingual). A truly life-changing experience! I completed a Certificate in Spiritual Direction through Columbia Theological Seminary in January 2024.
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