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Hard choices
We live on the horns of a dilemma. On one hand is the opportunity and responsibility to cultivate the best of the past and continue to harvest its rich blessings. On the other hand is the opportunity and responsibility of God’s invitation through the prophet Isaiah, “Do not remember the former things, or consider the Continue reading
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In the wilderness
One of the good jokes I like to tell is memorable for two reasons: it tells a story, and it’s about sudden and unexpected change. Few things are as painful as great and sudden change, so a good way to cope is to tell a joke about it. And the more painful the change, the Continue reading
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The set of our sails
The young rich guy driving his new Ferrari Spider through Vermont pulled up at a traffic light, and an old Vermonter – dressed in Bean boots, corduroys, a threadbare flannel shirt, and big red suspenders – pulled up beside him on a Moped and started admiring his car. He allowed that the car must be Continue reading
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God beyond our sanctuary
When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do Continue reading
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On growth and change
Growth and change are equal partners in any pilgrimage, any journey toward wholeness – you can’t talk about one without also talking about the other. Not all change involves growth, of course; some involves regression, degradation, decomposition. People spiral down as well as up. But all growth involves change. Much of what makes change an Continue reading
The Sauntering Pilgrim 