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The Simple Message of Resurrection
posted on Apr 3, 2016When I was a little girl, as far back as I can remember, I was scared to sleep away from my parents. Maybe it was because my dad was suffering from severe clinical depression and sometimes could not get out of bed in the morning. Maybe it was beca...
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The Pilate Moment
posted on Apr 3, 2016So I was driving home from Orlando last Saturday night after dropping my son Luke off at a baseball preseason training camp. The sun was setting and I wanted to get home and get some sleep. We were going to lose an hour springing forward and I had...
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Demons: Cleaning up the Mess of Your Mind
posted on Feb 15, 2016There is a man who works at Walgreens. As he checks people out, he tells them God bless you. He saw me one day in my collar and he has now taken to witnessing to me. He is an old black man with glasses. He is a beautiful soul. On Friday nigh...
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The Desert: Knowing the Landscape of your Mind
posted on Feb 15, 2016On Thursday night this past week, I was up at Camp Weed in Live Oak Florida for a clergy conference. I have almost no cell phone service there so I went up a hill in the dark at night before bed to say goodnight to my family. I spoke to Jake as I ...
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Shoving Can Be Good
posted on Jan 18, 2016Epiphany. The word means showing. When Jesus showed us who he was. Like the pulling back of a veil, the moment the curtain opens, a tear in the fabric of reality when the Son of God lets us know that he is real. He is alive. The first Epiphany...
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As a Child...
posted on Jan 4, 2016Sometimes I babysit Liesl and Paul’s little girl Alexis. She is not yet two. In a odd way, I find that she is my teacher when she comes to my house. That may sound strange but Alexis sees the world. I mean, she really sees it. With absolute...
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How John the Baptist Listened
posted on Dec 6, 2015There were 24 priestly families. Zechariah was part of the eighth family, the priests of Abijah. The duty of caring for the Holy of Holies would rotate from family to family. On this day it was the order of Abijah who assumed the care of the inne...
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Stress
This past weekend, I traveled to the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast to run a retreat for the women of the Diocese. The women were extraordinary. We talked about Mary Magdalene and her role as someone who suffered from demons and who became one ...
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The Woman and The Sacristy
posted on Oct 13, 2015This past weekend, I traveled to the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast to run a retreat for the women of the Diocese. The women were extraordinary. We talked about Mary Magdalene and her role as someone who suffered from demons and who became one ...
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The Great Divorce: Faith and Mental Health Today
posted on Sep 15, 2015This presentation was made on Saturday September 14, 2015 at the conference on Faith and Mental Health offered by Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida…I want to dedicate this presentation to a young woman. I will call her Kathy. I kne...
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Soul Food
posted on Aug 16, 2015My friend Christopher is a priest in San Francisco and a budding poet. He recently sent me a series of poems that he wrote about the Eucharist. They intimidated the heck out of me. It takes me a long time to read poetry and I always feel like I ha...
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Saint Thomas
Saint Andrew
The Feast of All Saints
St. Michael and All Angels