Author: sarainrealife
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Making Time for Self Care
One of my favorite things is being asked to serve on ordination committees. My go-to question for candidates seeking ordination is about self-care. I want to know that someone who wants to be of service to others has the tools they need to do that well, including caring for themselves. My self-care has evolved from…
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Series: Coping with Grief – Grief and Gratitude
I’ve been reflecting this week on why I seem to be missing Atlanta extra these days. I told my friend the other day, that I think it’s because around this time last year, we were at the height of stay at home orders, and working from home was going to be the new normal “for…
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Series: Coping with Grief – Suggestions for Making a Grief Collage
Grief has seemed constant over the past year. 8 days into the new year offers little hope of reprieve. A variety of emotions are being felt collectively as we mourn the events of 1/6/21, and individually as we reflect on the pandemic and what we have lost personally, and our sorrow over what others have…
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Two
Today, as we did on 8/18/19, we listened to the CD recording of our wedding, while driving back to our new home which is now a 3.5 hr drive from the beach where we honeymooned two years ago. Our second year of marriage brought the heartache of another academic rejection cycle, as well as that…
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Room at the Table
When Andrew and I were writing our vows, we talked about the kind of family we want to be; and the kind of home we want to foster. One recurring theme was hospitality and building a home with plenty of inviting plates, serving dishes and cutlery so that anyone who found themselves at our table…
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Reflections On My Life in Atlanta
I have a beautiful new journal, the purpose of which is to write down the process of packing, planning for a move, and leaving the place I have called home since the 6th grade. Today is July 1, 2020. Andrew and I will be leaving Atlanta in 38 days. Today, I made phone calls to…
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Series – Learning to be Anti-Racist: Some Recommended Resources
I am learning to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is an ongoing journey, a way of life that invites the learner to ask “how am I perpetuating systems of whiteness?” “How am I complicit in systems of racial oppression?” From the answers there, the learner asks, “what can I do to dismantle systems of whiteness and oppression…
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Series – Learning to be Anti- Racist: Things You Can do This Week
I am learning to be an anti-racist. More than being “not a racist,” anti-racism is a way of life; of doing hard, inner work every day that asks “where am I complicit in racist practices whether I know it or not, what is my part in the systemic oppression of Black, Indigenous, and People of…
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Series – Learning to be an Anti-Racist: Use Your Privilege
Tonight, we watched Remember the Titans. It was on Disney+ while we were scrolling for something to watch; and we picked it. I’ve seen this movie enough times to know what’s coming up, and the next line. It was one of those feel good movies when it came out. Tonight we watched it as part…
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I Will Not Be Shaken: Reflection on Acts 2:25
This is my contribution to the Scott Boulevard Baptist Church twice weekly mailer, SBBC Connection that my pastor and I devised to keep our congregation connected to us, to each other and to God. … “I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. This…
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