Thursday, September 20, 2012

What I Can Handle; What We Can Handle; What God Can Handle

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I was sitting in my addictions counseling class yesterday reflecting on our cultural assumptions about what each other should and should n...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Transcending Failure

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"So many of us feel a sense of broken-heartedness or disappointment in ourselves for all the times we’ve tried and failed.  But i...
Monday, August 27, 2012

The Human Condition

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The human condition is simply to want to be loved, to know one is okay, to have enough, and to give what one loves to give.  Old wounds an...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Sermon: "What Is Your Story? - How Our Life Narrative Impacts Our Journey"

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"What Is Your Story?  - How Our Life Narrative Impacts Our Journey" Rev. Alison Longstaff Aug 5th, 2012 Grand River Unit...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Believing We Are Bad Doesn't Make Us Good, and Believing We Are Good Doesn't Make Us Bad.

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"Sin and shame we come confessing..." was one of the lines of a hymn I grew up singing.  "Wayward, sinful still, are we,...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Life Breathes Us

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I encountered   a concept several years ago in a yoga class. It is that life breathes us. Life breathes us? As a hyper-responsible, ...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Golden Arrow, or How Our Poverty Can Reveal Our Richness

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My reflections today spring from a Henry Nouwen quote: ‎ "How can we embrace poverty as a way to God when everyone around us wants to...