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What goes around… | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. What goes around…. August 7, 2015. August 8, 2015. A friend of mine talks about the season of grief she went through when her husband died as a long journey to the very end of herself. It was a lonely, tear-streaked place, where she was a sobbing, angry mess. And so I did. I took care of myself, for a change. I asked for an extension on a project. I did the few things that needed done right then. And then I stopped. About 12:15 today, I walked out to the...

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The Story We Tell | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. The Story We Tell. July 12, 2015. September 10, 2015. Being the Church Series. Preaching the Six Great Ends of the Church – Primary Text: John 3:1-21. For the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring how our denomination has chosen to describe what means to be the Body of Christ. The church is that body, made up of individual members, as well as congregations and whole denominations, spanning the globe. We are meant to be. And to the work. As one ordained to...

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Care and Feeding | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. July 26, 2015. September 10, 2015. Being the Church Series. Preaching the Great Ends of the Church. 3 – The shelter, nurture and spiritual fellowship of God’s children. Primary Scripture: Luke 2:41-51. When I first asked for a pet (beyond the outside dogs that we had growing up) mom sent me to the library. I looked up the kinds of animals my friends and classmates had – fish, cats, turtles, guinea pigs, gerbils. Where does it sleep? What do you feed it?

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When ephemeral just won’t do | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. When ephemeral just won’t do. July 20, 2015. Today, after coming home from a conference that included 8 hours of programming that my team spent probably 100 hours planning/prepping, I found myself roaming the local craft store, picking out silk flowers and a container from the 70% off section. I thought for a moment about handing them all over to one of my friends who can create AMAZING arrangements. I think that is why I am drawn to the sort of creative...

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Gone | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. August 6, 2015. August 7, 2015. I am not ok. I am on my bed. So very not ok. Because this grief shit is complicated. Because every time I start to cry-. The thought of you steals in. The last tears never come. The ones that would cleanse me of that early sorrow. And his, too. But they can’t flow around the tears that come. They’re never good in a queue. Like good WASPy tears ought to be. These ones come barreling through. Noisy and obvious,. Here’s...

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A few things I’ve learned lately | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. A few things I’ve learned lately. August 7, 2015. September 7, 2015. In no particular order:. When you drive a convertible, you really should always have 3 things:. A hat or visor (the sun shades in the car are useless for some angles). A comb or brush. It’s good to have someone who can talk the one who usually talks people off the ledge, off the ledge. Peanut butter and chocolate milkshakes are awesome, but not right before bed. What do you think? Sheph...

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Notifications | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. July 10, 2015. I read them in your voice, your words that arrive with a buzz and a PING! Sometimes the intimacy of your voice in my head is as startling as it is comfortable. It is as though you have known me long enough to befriend the others who knew me long ago, but now live only in my memory. It is as if they have told you which wounds to avoid, which need tending, and which are healed enough to massage and stretch to break up the scar tissue. Rachel...

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A big comfy chair | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. A big comfy chair. August 6, 2015. August 8, 2015. Some days, all I want is a big comfy chair upholstered in the world’s softest flannel. It forms itself around you, just right, like you’ve crawled up into the safest lap there is. And when you whisper what needs to be said out loud and heard but not fixed, it knows just how closely to hold you and just how long. A big comfy chair. Or one of those kinds of hugs. Lost in Wonder Love and Praise. Being the C...

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Laura | The Viau From Here

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The Viau From Here. Test-driving my point of view. Lead Us, Deliver Us. August 21, 2016. I don’t know how anyone could approach this prayer as a whole, but especially this petition without the context and insights offered by John Dominic Crossan in his brilliant book The Greatest Prayer. Harper One, 2010). Primary Text: Matthew 6:7-15. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. Or as the more familiar King James version reads:. And then we come to this petition:. It’s a li...