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On Waiting
I wrote this short piece a few years ago, but it’s so timely, I wanted to share it with you. Yesterday morning, snow fell like a curtain of white in…
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Heart to Heart
I’ve been thinking about hearts a lot lately. Of course, Valentine’s Day puts hearts in full view—on the end cap of grocery store aisles and in the…
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Holiday Blessings
Ever since I was little, “Silent Night” has been my favorite Christmas carol. It’s partly because of the beautiful language. “Shepherds quake at the…
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An Easter Story
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Heart to Heart
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A Meditation
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Ticked Off...and Healing
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How Do We See Peace Instead?
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Peace, Politics, and Feeling Groovy
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How Do We See Peace Instead?
At a time of year when we focus on peace, it’s easy to see its opposite everywhere we look. We’ve heard phrases like, “Be the change you want to be in…
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A Meditation
Last weekend, I led a women’s spirituality retreat in Maine. It started just two days after the shootings in Lewiston. Some of the nearly four dozen…
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My Presidential Platform
The presidential race is heating up in Iowa, especially among Republicans, who will hold their first-in-the-nation caucuses here in January. It’s gotten…
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All's Fair
Every August, Bob and I head to the Iowa State Fair, and every year, I’m grateful that we still feel like making the trek. This year we had a special…
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Ticked Off...and Healing
Bob and I have lived in Madison County for almost 22 years. We’ve logged a lot of hours outdoors—that’s one of the gifts of living on an acreage. Nature…
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A Gardener's Mantra
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called Grace from the Garden, a collection of stories about gardeners around the country and how they were helping…
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Happy Graduation
Dear Graduate, I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, and at least 40 years separate us in age, but I have a feeling we’re not that different. Every…
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A Whole New World
We can make the world new every day.
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