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Chilaquiles
Chee-lah-kee-lehs 🙂 I had my fist plate of chilaquiles at a small, rural church in Mexico. I was interpreting for the mission team that had come to work with the church, and the preacher’s wife loved to cook. She made breakfast and lunch for us every day, and we usually fended for ourselves for dinner…
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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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Alive Day, 2020
In my family, May 5 is known as “alive day,” because of the time on May 5, 2005, when I had a rollover accident on I-20. Everything happened in the blink of an eye. In a matter of seconds, before I knew what was happening, my car swerved into the grass median headed quickly toward…
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Working from Home: Lessons in Adapting
Working from home is a new world for a lot of us, it certainly is for me. The most familiarity I have with not working in the office is sermon-writing in a coffee shop. These days, I am my own coffee shop, office and everything in between. When I was little, if we had family…
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Grieving in Song
*Trigger warning: child trauma, death of a child, children’s hospitals, ER chaplaincy, pediatric chaplaincy* Seven years ago, on March 28, during my chaplain residency, I had what I would call the on call shift from hell. It was a Saturday shift, which means I spent 24 hours in the hospital from 8:30 AM Saturday to…
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