Tag: life
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Open Heart. Open Hands. Clear Boundaries.
Today’s Curious Pilgrim topic is “We all stand on the shoulders of someone who believed in us.” The greatest lessons I have learned in life have not come from books or classrooms. They have come from experience. As I reflect on the people whose shoulders I stand on today, I have realized that one of…
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Some Places Become Holy Simply Because We Lived There
We all feel disconnected at times. I never met my maternal or paternal grandparents. They had all died before I was born, so I grew up knowing very little about my family’s story. In the 1990s, my oldest sister, Sue, and I began researching our genealogy. The deeper we dug, the more I discovered that…
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Every Family Has Stories Worth Remembering
There is an old saying, “You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family.” Every family has stories they celebrate and stories they would rather keep hidden. Yet those hidden stories are just as much a part of who we are. Growing up, I never knew my grandparents. They had all died before…
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Standing on the Shoulders of Those Who Believed in Us
There is an old saying that we stand on the shoulders of giants. I have discovered another truth along life’s journey: we all stand on the shoulders of someone who believed in us. As I look back over seventy-six years, I realize that many of the people who shaped my life never became famous. They…
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The Living God and the End of Dead Works
A Curious Pilgrim Daily Office Reflection Daily Office Readings: Psalm 107, Ezekiel 43:1-12, Hebrews 9:1-14, Luke 11:14-23 One verse stood out to me in today’s readings: “How much more will the blood of Christ… purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God.” (Hebrews 9:14) For much of my life, I understood this…
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God Desires Life
A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on Psalm 105, Ezekiel 18:1-4, 19-32, Hebrews 7:18-28, and Luke 10:25-37 One of the blessings of praying the Daily Office is discovering how seemingly unrelated passages of Scripture often weave together into a single message. Today’s readings come from different centuries, different writers, and different circumstances, yet they all point toward…
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🍃 Life Lessons from the Porch
Coming Home to Where the Story Began There are moments in life when you realize the road you have traveled was not taking you away from your beginnings — it was slowly guiding you back to understand them. Recently, I reread the Ethos page of this blog and recognized three truths that have quietly shaped…
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