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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World /  JM

iii /  Gen. 2  v. 1 - 3       Matt. 11: 28 - 30
Life-giving communion with the Lifegiver

• Tabernacle & Temple: expressions of Eden recalled
 Lampstand: Tree of Life / Cherubim: guarding Eden

• Ps 132: ‘resting-place’;
 dwelling-place, used interchangeably

• 1 K. 8: 56  Solomon ( Read more... )

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Feeling weary in between where you were, where you are, and where you think you are “supposed” to be? I call it the "no man's land" stage. An unoccupied Pilgrim's path of trusting the Lord when you see very little. This is what many run from ( Read more... )

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There is blessing in the battle
so take heart & stand amazed;
                                     Rejoice.


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"The wilderness itself is a significant and recurring theme in scripture & tradition. Moses and the children of Israel spent forty years in the desert after they escaped from Egypt. Jesus goes into the wilderness after his baptism, wrestling with temptation. Religious writers, starting with the Old Testament prophets, use the wilderness as a ( Read more... )

Word of the Day: "hleów-feðer" - "a sheltering wing" (Old English, literally "shelter-feather"); an arm placed in protection around another; one who keeps another safe, who stands to windward to take the gale's force, to make a lee. pic.twitter.com/Jwz7dvOYtf
- Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) May 4, 2020
Psalm 91, in a nutshell.


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the NEXT RIGHT THING:
Emily P. Freeman

23. Expect to Be Surprised

'Glory showed up on the other side of the glass
 in ways I couldn't possibly explain or expect.'

◘  .... It’s about my continual insistence that I am in control of my own life.  It’s about the endless pressure I put on myself to make the right choice, the best choice, at the ( Read more... )

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the NEXT RIGHT THING:
Emily P. Freeman

17. Find a No Mentor

◘  Knowing what you want to do is important. But knowing what you don’t want to do can be even more so ( Read more... )

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the NEXT RIGHT THING:
Emily P. Freeman

11. Stay in Today

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice & be glad in it.
-  Psalm 118:24

◘ Psalm 46 invites us to be still & know that he is God.
There's a reason why God invites us to be still first: the stillness makes way for the knowing. It creates space.. [122]

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Christianity Offers No Answers About the Coronavirus.
It's Not Supposed To

"As the Spirit laments within us, so we become, even in our self-isolation, small shrines where the presence and healing love of God can dwell. And out of that there can emerge new possibilities, new acts of kindness, new scientific understanding, new hope."