Monthly Archives: November 2007

The Little Threads of Life

Life looks big. That’s the first thing we learn as children and some carry that perception with them through every significant stage of life. Our point of view in childhood is mostly at knees and ankles. We look up craning … Continue reading

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Gladness and Gratitude

  Is it just me or is there a shortness of gladness and gratitude these days? Even when the sun shines bright on our shoulders, we have a tendency to obsess about the clouds that are forming on the horizon … Continue reading

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Memory’s Unmade Bed

“We drag expensive ghosts through memory’s unmade bed”
Paul Hoover, Theory of Margin

Paul Hoover writes about “memory’s unmade bed” as a way of describing all that’s within us that continues to haunt us or bless us, guide us and direct us to the place in us where the past, present and future collide. All of us live under the influence of an inner world where everything (every experience, every emotion, every thought) is stored. It’s something of a storehouse of memory where everything is remembered whether it’s consciously available to us or not and nothing is tossed aside. Continue reading

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A Gospel as Big as the Neighborhood

Birdie was someone you often heard before you saw. She entered the office hallway muttering under her breath and I knew something was going down. Before I could adequately prepare myself for her arrival, she was standing at my open … Continue reading

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