Tag Archives: prayer

Shredded

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Claire

Right relationship is not about “being nice.” It is not about “meeting in the middle” with those who violate our trust. Compromise and cooperation are great: they are useful tools – but not always the right tools for the task before us… Continue reading →

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A Miscellaneous Collection of Impractical Things

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Claire

Somehow it got to be March while I was doing things other than updating the blog. That happens a lot now. I have not been idle. I have been occupied with an assortment of things – feeding my soul through … Continue reading →

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Uggh. Can it be January now please?

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Claire

The days are short. The nights are cold and long. Family and church and school all demand pieces of my time. Today I feel like I have accomplished NOTHING of the thousand and ten things I ought to have already … Continue reading →

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Another turn of the wheel

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Claire

It is again the darkening end of the darkening quarter of the year. I live on the southeast face of a steep hill and by three-thirty in the afternoon the sun is down in the trees, slipping behind the houses … Continue reading →

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I lift my eyes

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Claire

I lift my eyes to the hills, and whisper a prayer to whatever might be listening. For the Canadian town still burning from an oil train derailment, for the missing and the homeless and the dead. For the commercial aircraft … Continue reading →

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Faith and Finance

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Claire

So I’m trying to do this financial paperwork, and it’s making me crazier than I was already. Part of the problem is that I’m going from having an income and modest expenses, now, to having no income and an income’s … Continue reading →

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