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“it is what it is”
The last weeks, I’ve been struggling with reality–pushing against walls that aren’t gonna budge, scraping my hands and bruising my head. Yesterday, I visited my grandfather in the hospital (later in...
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happiness list
this week’s happiness is all about the unexpected, good, free things I’ve noticed this week: 1. free au lait When you don’t realize that free refills are included, and though you ask for a bit of warm...
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Is God Calling?
Has God ever told you to go raise someone from the dead? Years ago, a friend thought God had told her to go to a stranger’s funeral, touch the body, and tell it to get up. Last week, as I was telling...
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my iphone & God
artwork via Bored Panda Surfing the internets yesterday afternoon, I found THIS LIST of cartoons as commentary on smartphones. I knew I was on to something when I refused one in college. Now, iphone...
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unnatural state
Have you noticed the way that babies easily fold up their legs in a combination cross-ankled, knees-to-chest “fetal” position? As I’ve been practicing yoga and especially hip-opening positions this...
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what’s in a body?
My body failed awfully early in life. Before I was sixteen, I was walking like an 80-year-old woman, unable to navigate stairs or open doors. The arthritis is under such control (with medication and...
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Back to the start
Here I am! Starting my yoga journey–or so I thought to myself tonight as I washed my face in my new home. Then I realized, going to class tomorrow wasn’t the beginning. Neither was driving up to...
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precious moments
view on my walk home in Asheville Though I have never been so lucky as to boast a collection of porcelain figurines with sad, tear-drop eyes, I do have a collection of precious moments, made all the...
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compassion
It’d hardly been an hour back to work after a three-week hiatus when the first volley came. In Asheville, I’d spent 17 nine-hour days with complete strangers from all over the world, taking lecture...
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Stairway to heaven
How quickly we forget the lessons we suffered so long to learn. A year ago as Jordan and I traipsed about France, sometimes scaling great heights in cathedral bell towers to enjoy great view fro the...
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rock your body right
I think I’ve never gotten over throwing tantrums. Toddlers, who haven’t yet learned to use words to articulate their feelings (not that us adults do much better in heated moments!) are famous for...
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yoga as spiritual discipline
What are you overcompensating for? Last month, spending some time with my mother-in-law, she talked about how her injured knee was wrecking havoc with her hips and back; other parts of her skeleton...
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some things change, some things stay the same
Some days require double-strength stress relief tea. Some days just feel more anxious; my body aches and I can’t concentrate. Sometimes I make up a theory about why I notice a lot more tension some...
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bursting the love bubble
With 24 fellow strangers, I created a love bubble this past July. Amongst us was one married couple, other than that, none of the 2 dozen of us had ever set eyes on one another. In Asheville, we spent...
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the tidiness of yoga
We moved almost two months ago, and while the cardboard boxes were more-or-less emptied and banished from the house within the first week (not a coincidence that we had 8 days before starting our...
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Breath of God
Sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter; John 20:19-31 In springtime, PBS’s Masterpiece Theater hosts its annual season of Call the Midwife. It’s been going the last few weeks, and if you don’t know...
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There are many questions and concerns that Christians may have about whether and how and if to practice yoga. I want to address some of these questions and concerns in a series here on my blog. If you...
View ArticleSermon for All Saints Sunday
Revelation 7:9-17 + Matthew 5:1-12 Sitting down to write this sermon was the first time I’d spent any time at my desk since the first week of October. My monthly desk-blotter calendar was still showing...
View ArticleBodies Talk
I preached my All Saints sermon for the first time about 8:45am on Sunday. By 10:30am, my lower back hurt, and it hasn’t stopped yet. When we start to let loose the truth of our condition, our bodies...
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