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On Significance and Purpose

Deborah — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:42:41 +0000

In-the-moment often doesn’t reveal the importance of-the-moment. In-the-moment seldom gazes directly in our eyes or points out the progress or reassures us this is our next best thing. In-the-moment rarely offers significance a seat. It’s after-the-moment who often motions backward where on the distance shore significance waves shyly and our souls gasp with the wonder [...]

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Come. Sit. Be a Person.

Deborah — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:28:06 +0000

Tap on the door and come quietly in.Come. Sit. Be a person.For mostly we stumble around.Step. Trip. Berate our sense of being.We’re often lost; occasionally found.Fog. Afraid. Question every direction. Pull up your chair and exhale into peace.Breathe. Ease. Slip into your soul.Stress tries to rue the day.Clench. Knot. Neck muscles run rigid.Humiliation runs rampant.Ache. [...]

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The Compassion of Companioned Presence Without Pressure

Deborah — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:00:07 +0000

The wind howls outside as it’s done all day. I am weary of it. It bears down hard as I step out the backdoor, my arms laden with bags and boxes.I wave at my nieces as I deliver supper to the wheat field. I greet them and tell them I feel quite complainy about the [...]

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Logos

Deborah — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:07:00 +0000

We sing about the drummer boy.He brings the best gift he can offer.The only gift he has to offer.He plays with his whole heart. We pa-rum-pum-pum with him. Linus recites for us.And when he reaches the message the angels have to deliver, when he repeats their words, “Fear not. We bring you good news,” his security [...]

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A Benediction: I Hope For You

Deborah — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:15:49 +0000

I hope, my friends, this year has been good for you. Not perfect. Not hashtag blessed. Not even fantastic. No need to glance at all the glossy appeal the highlight reels might give us. Instead, may we gaze around, and in, the interior of our real lives we live one quiet day after another.As we reflect back, [...]

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Gifts, Hope, Bells, Green, Star

Deborah — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:26:12 +0000

GIFTS December 1, 2023🎁🎀🎄 Right here.Two of the very best gifts to ever happen to me.And as funny as the “puppies” are, I don’t mean Jackie and Theodore. 😄😉It’s true. Childcare is demanding and exhausting and needy.It revealed so much in me that I really hated coming face to face with.Sad truth.If I could get [...]

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