Tagged: reflection

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Puzzle Pieces Unite?

[Part 7 in a narrative of Liz’s calling into counseling as a member of health care team in an inner city.] For all my discussions with counselees about overcoming barriers to obedience in their own lives and relationships, I am a wimp. Yet by this point in my journey, I...

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Beyond Figuring Out

[Part 3 in Liz’s story…] Elucidating the pieces to my calling left me feeling like someone had dumped three or four puzzles together, shaken the box, and removed pieces, leaving 500 unrelated pieces with no picture to guide me. I puzzled over the infinite combinations and variations until, like the...

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Humbler Yet

We were sitting around the peeled and cracking table, chatting late into the night.  It has become a common occurrence in our small dining room to see an eclectic mix of people  perched on different pieces of our patchwork furniture, trading stories and snippets about what it means to believe...

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Born Again

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where...

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Rituals of Annotation

I am not exactly sure of what prompted me to do it, but I began keeping a tally of all the pronouncements I have done.  I never really knew this before, but pronouncements are done in a remarkably simple and impersonal way.  Most patients who die in the hospital do...

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The Divine Reversal

[Reflection from a morning worship service] I have been spending time working with children and adults with developmental disabilities this past week.  It has been a long week, and to help me process the many emotions and things I saw, I picked up a book to read about theology and...