This summer I read “Emotionally Healthy Spirituality” with Rob and others in our church who are in vocational ministry.
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This last Saturday morning I ran into my friend, Reverend Liv Larsen Andrews, the pastor at Salem Lutheran Church on West Broadway in Spokane.
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Ever since Rob’s sermon on giving last month (see immanuelspokane.org for a recording), I’ve been thinking about how we, as followers of Jesus, engage with the topic of money. As Rob brought up in his sermon, the church in the U.S. generally…
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A couple weekends ago, I took a trip back home to Gig Harbor to spend some quality time with my brother, Alec. A special bonus of my trip was visiting my mom’s 5th and 6th grade classroom.
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I learned something new this year during the Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK) observance: his views on racial and economic equality were not widely embraced by either the white or black church.
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Patience, patience, patience. When it comes to pursuing goals, it is hard for me to be patient especially when I have this notion that running into any obstacles means that I have become a “failure” and that it will be harder to accomplish my goals. In the past two and a half years repeatedly I felt as if I was failing at school.
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I have always been someone who questions my purpose.Most of the time, whether it was a volunteer position or a job, I would start to question what I was doing and start looking for something new and what I thought was “better” a little before I had been there 2 years. I felt that I wasn’t doing “enough.”
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As I review my journal of the past year and a half it could only be described as bleak. Since my husband died last May, I’ve taken to processing thoughts in a diary. Well thoughts might not be the right word...
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