There’s always this point when you are breaking in new shoes that you start running and you know that the realignment process is complete. If you haven’t run a lot, you might be fooled into thinking that if you have bad shoes and replace those shoes, then you are not going to experience pain anymore. […]
that my experience as a teacher and more specifically as a reading specialist might be a central part of my ministry. Because I was a public school teacher, I had trained myself to show my faith in encouraging families and working hard to provide a quality education to children in poverty and in at risk
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After we have a weekend with the girls, there’s always a period of time I wait before cleaning up their weekend fun. There’s something about peeking into the “school” that LC created to teach Sofia the First and hearing her voice again in my memory that makes our time together last longer. There’s something about
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As a teacher, I got used to carrying things in the back of my car pertaining to teaching: books, materials for science experiments, math manipulatives, etc. This wasn’t uncommon or strange, in fact after school you could often find a switch going on from one teacher’s car to another teacher’s as materials were shared back
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I was listening to an NPR report with a state university professor of economics (I missed which one as I tried to track the station through the small towns of my commute) and was intrigued by his suggestion that we are moving back to a hunter and gatherer economy. His suggestion was that there is
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This morning started at 5:00 am. The ice is melting, and I am worried about the piano. It should be fine if the temperature hasn’t fallen below 55 in the sanctuary, but if there ever is a time that that might have happened, that time would have been the last two days. I am also
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The night brought more ice and refrozen ice and power outages. Our power was fine, but when my phone dinged with the Civil Emergency Notice, I knew it was time to start checking on my congregants. Already one missed call as I fixed my first cup of coffee. Yup, one person without power. Thinking
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Of course the ice storm happened on a Wednesday, again. I looked outside and it was clear that this one was worse than the last one. There was no way I was getting my car out and our road had not been scraped. I was stuck. So, Wednesday morning started with being sure that the
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The pups and I are usually morning walkers or runners, so it was strange to take them out tonight as the day faded into night. We watched as families came together and peeked in at what they were having for dinner. In some cases, we could even smell what was cooking. It seems odd to
As I started my last semester of classes in seminary, I realized that soon this two-week life will be over. I can actually see the finish line. I can actually count down the number of times I have to commute to school. It’s surreal. I have become accustomed to starting my week at seminary
