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The Warp and the Weft: December 2013
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Sunday, December 29, 2013. I had resigned myself to a Sausage Roll free existence, and most of the time I have been o.k. with that, but for some reason this Christmas has filled me with nostalgia and homesickness more than usual. I made the Christmas Pudding and the Mince Pies, but I was unsure how to get Sausage Rolls. Now I can. Purchase ...
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The Warp and the Weft: January 2014
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Thursday, January 30, 2014. Naked in the House of God. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.". Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,. But not expressed in fancy—rich, not gaudy,. For the apparel oft proclaims the man,. And they in France of the best rank and station. Hamlet Act 1 Scene 3. Shakespeare.
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The Warp and the Weft: All Good Gifts Around Us....
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. All Good Gifts Around Us. I have a personality that can easily stew on the negative, so Thanksgiving is a great reminder for me of the positive. A few years ago I was leading a small group reflecting on Parables and Poetry and the parable that was randomly assigned for Thanksgiving was Luke 12:16-21. That passage...
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The Warp and the Weft: November 2014
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. All Good Gifts Around Us. I have a personality that can easily stew on the negative, so Thanksgiving is a great reminder for me of the positive. A few years ago I was leading a small group reflecting on Parables and Poetry and the parable that was randomly assigned for Thanksgiving was Luke 12:16-21. That passage...
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The Warp and the Weft: October 2014
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Thursday, October 16, 2014. Thoughts for Sunday's Contemplative Service. The only effort involved is the natural process of growing roots. This can be an encouragement and a challenge. An encouragement because there are times when spiritual disciplines can be exhausting. I want to nurture my soul, but prayer feels unobtainable and my bi...
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The Warp and the Weft: July 2014
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Thursday, July 24, 2014. Jesus gets it backwards. Had I been Jesus' script writer I would have worded the sentence a little differently:. Where the plants produced thirty, sixty or even a hundred times as much as was scattered! But that is not what Jesus does in the Parable of Sower. How do I read it aloud? Interestingly enough Mark's versi...
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The Warp and the Weft: April 2014
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Thursday, April 17, 2014. Random thoughts for Easter Sunday's Contemplative Service). Resurrections happen in our lives in shouts and whispers. Other parts of me need to whisper the resurrection. A loud shout sends me scurrying away in fear like wild deer. I need to whisper as a gentle invitation that I will not be met with condemna...Do, a...
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The Warp and the Weft: Jesus gets it backwards.
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Thursday, July 24, 2014. Jesus gets it backwards. Had I been Jesus' script writer I would have worded the sentence a little differently:. Where the plants produced thirty, sixty or even a hundred times as much as was scattered! But that is not what Jesus does in the Parable of Sower. How do I read it aloud? Interestingly enough Mark's versi...
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The Warp and the Weft: August 2014
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The Warp and the Weft. Contemplative Spirituality, Creativity, Boardgames and Cooking. Woven together by the grace of God as major threads in the tapestry of my life. Thursday, August 21, 2014. Notes for this Sunday's Contemplative Service). Why did we do this? So Tom and Tam became my companions for a while, and I learned about openness and mystery in prayer. I surrendered my agendas and even allowed the way I pray for them to change how I pray for myself. How do I pray honestly for what I feel and stil...
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