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Look Around

While watching the musical and looking around, I thought how lucky I was to be alive right then and there with my son Jason next to me seeing this dynamic production together.

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Looking Up!

“Look up! Feel up!  Look down! Feel down.”

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Spirited Aspens

On my recent trip to Colorado this point was driven home in Rocky Mountain National Park.  I was drawn to the stark contrast of life and death as it intertwined amidst the trees. 

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Top 10 Highlights

National Youth Gathering Theme: God’s Hope Changes Everything

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Synod Youth Day

God’s love changes everything was today’s theme at the ELCA Youth Gathering.

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A Mouse

What a great day with 10 Youth who are having fun, clothes pinning many people and open to God’s call. Some even got signatures on their maps from youth from Alaska, Hawaii and even Australia

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16, 707

Highlights of Day One of the Houston National Youth Gathering.

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Lines at Christmas

My thoughts became somehow focused on the lines of the crosswalk at which we were stopped and the line between death (the hearse) and life (the baby in the stroller). Plus it was Meridian Street (Meridian representing the lines of longitude that stretch half way around the earth). Lines, lines everywhere.

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The Loss of Impulsivity

At what age do we lose the ability to do the things our impulses tell us to do? Children have the innate, impulsive ability to do what needs to be done without thinking.

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Punting

As I listened to the radio on my drive to Chicago, the DJ talked about the next song he was going to play which was “The Longest Time” by Billy Joel.  He is one of my favorite artists.

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Entering the Darkness

This quote by Thomas Merton is very profound in my thinking at this time of my life: “Our Christian hope is the purest of all lights that shine in the darkness, but it shines in darkness, and one must enter into darkness to see it shining. " How often do we go into the darkness to bring the light and our Christian hope? How often do I? These words are very convicting.

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Soul Searching

This quote by Thomas Merton is very profound in my thinking at this time of my life: “Our Christian hope is the purest of all lights that shine in the darkness, but it shines in darkness, and one must enter into darkness to see it shining. " How often do we go into the darkness to bring the light and our Christian hope? How often do I? These words are very convicting.

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Shining Like the Sun

This quote by Thomas Merton is very profound in my thinking at this time of my life: “Our Christian hope is the purest of all lights that shine in the darkness, but it shines in darkness, and one must enter into darkness to see it shining. " How often do we go into the darkness to bring the light and our Christian hope? How often do I? These words are very convicting.

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Hope on Hope

There are many, many items in my office and home that say “hope”. Each one has a special memory attached to it as they are all gifts from people. It’s fun having a name like mine.

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Smiles Begin With....

Who makes you smile?  Sometimes smiles begin with just that person’s presence. Sometimes smiles begin with their witty words.  Sometimes smiles begin with their smile.  It is often hard to be dour when someone smiles at me.  

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Grave Matters

On a recent trip with the Indiana Historical Society called “Grave Matters,” touring cemeteries in Southern Indiana, Jeannie, a grave expert accompanied us.  She is pictured below in the first picture.  She talked about how headstones have changed over the years from being religious in nature, then being more focused on nature, and how now these grave markers are showing the rise of pop culture.

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Memory Making Moments

It was surprising how emotional the act of selling my dining room table became as I sat on the chairs waiting for the buyers to arrive.  The set was bought in 2000 when we moved into the house on Cranberry Drive in Greenfield. It was my dream home and dream dining room table.  A place to gather, to talk, to laugh, and to eat.  Meals are about so much more than food.  

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