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January 11, 2015. What 2014 gave me. It’s been radio silence here on the blog for a while, I know. It’s a strange season around here right now–and I don’t just mean that it’s winter, with all the strangeness that brings (seriously, negative wind chills one day and 40 degrees the next? Get out of here, winter. I’m over it.). No, it’s a strange season for many other reasons, and all those reasons have been overwhelming lately, so overwhelming that I can hardly. About them, let alone. Be my children could b...
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October 16, 2014. Apparently today is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day. As if that is a day worth celebrating. I know, the point isn’t to celebrate. It’s not like we’re talking about Mother’s Day here, or Father’s Day, or Grandparents’ Day, or any of the other greeting card holidays which exist to celebrate. It turns out, you can’t celebrate those holidays if you. Don’t have a family. So it’s not like we’re celebrating. Baby, and pictures of happy families and adorable children are flooding my news...
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July 8, 2016. Whose job is it to teach students (kids) how to react responsibly in high-stress situations? To teach them the basic principles of human etiquette and morality? To teach them that disagreements do not equal devaluation of human life? So what do you do when the good guys fail you? Which way is true north? We HAVE to do better. We have to teach our kids better. We have to fight hatred with love and ignorance with enlightenment. But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. I...
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ob.ser.va. tion: on my mind
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Sunday, October 11, 2009. It has lately become a habit of mine that while driving home from class (in Chicago, 3 nights a week.) I think about topics to potentially blog about. So I do have some fun ones in store, people. Let me know you're reading; it makes me feel bad when I don't post. I was taken aback by this. Mystified. Slightly appalled. I walked by in a hurry, trying not to look in that direction, but not really being able to help it.kind of like a train wreck. I think I am beginning to understan...
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ob.ser.va. tion: April 2009
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009. After a long hiatus. I sometimes feel like I have nothing to blog about any more. But really, life is one big adventure after another. So here are a few things that have been happening since my last post.in January. I am currently substitute teaching (as in right now while blogging) and loving it! Down the hallway, when I am using my grown-up alias- Mrs. Motley. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond). New Moon (Stephenie Meyer). A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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ob.ser.va. tion: goodwill to men
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009. And sometimes this may be true. But I wonder if we are being called to rise above the cynicism and offer goodwill for the sake of goodwill. If humanity as a whole would rise up and reach out to the downtrodden, perhaps they would be taken care of. Perhaps we could effectually achieve a glimpse of social justice. And then I keep walking. Arent these people hungry in May as well? Dont the children of prisoners need attention in March? November 21, 2009 at 9:54:00 PM CST. Decem...
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ob.ser.va. tion: the art of dying
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009. The art of dying. I couldn't help thinking to myself, seeing the world going up in a flame of color, that trees really know how to die. They have perfected the art of dying in a blaze of glory, and if I have to die, that's how I would prefer to go. We die in so many ways.the old dying slowly and softly, fading into shadows of themselves, while the trees set themselves ablaze, daring us not to notice their descent into winter. October 28, 2009 at 3:15:00 PM CST. We are falling...
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ob.ser.va. tion: these are a few of my favorite things
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009. These are a few of my favorite things. I became an English major primarily because I have a sick obsession with books. The book that started it for me? Anne of Green Gables, in 3rd grade. It turns out there is an entire. Of those books, so that kept me going for a while. Admitting you have a problem is the first step. 13 The Neverending Story. By Michael Ende. Again, if you think you know enough about this story because of the terrible 1980s movie(s) loosely based on Mich...
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ob.ser.va. tion: November 2008
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Sunday, November 23, 2008. For most of my life I've felt like I had a pretty good handle on what it means to be a Christian. Growing up with it helped. I had no sudden epiphanies, no real moments of shock or surprise, just a continual depth of understanding and knowledge that the root of my Christianity is in my own heart, no one else's. But there are some fundamentals, right? So many people are "Christians." So few of us actually are. Wednesday, November 19, 2008. Why else is he at the mall? I love the ...
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ob.ser.va. tion: July 2008
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Thursday, July 24, 2008. The cynic in me. Lately I have been experiencing a kind of cynical block about "religion." And by lately I really mean for the last several months. See, I am struggling with the balance of being excited about my faith and the power of God and the cheese factor. What is the cheese factor, you ask? I can most accurately describe my attitude about it in two words: Christian DJs. Walking, stumbling on these shadowfeet. Toward home, a land that i've never seen. I'll be found in You.
