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Permission to Notice

When I was in Kindergarten, I took the school bus home. The driver dropped me off three blocks away from my house. Since my...

From a Mountain of Trash to Beauty

This morning, my husband, John, and I took a lap around the paved loop that tops a city park not far from where we...

Cherishing Meeting Participants

“Cherish what is simple. Be in awe of what is great.” —Christopher de Vinck in The Center Will Hold I am sitting in the usual...

A Story of the Simple and Great Hearing Aid

The other day, I ran around the house looking everywhere for my oldest son’s hearing aids. I checked the counter where we normally place...

Harvest Moon

I have always loved the harvest moon. In my two-stoplight hometown, it was always a big event. The rising of this enormous, orange moon...

Everything Is Precious

On errands, during a clear Seattle afternoon, I look out my car window to see an East African mother carrying groceries home with four...

A Bold Invitation from Zephaniah

Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! The LORD has taken away the judgments against you, he has...

My Hourglass

I was standing in the parking lot of Campion Hall at Seattle University, my eyes welling with tears that I refused to let fall...

The Great Re-Imaginer

Having faith and hope seems almost absurd in times like these. The brokenness, darkness, and suffering of our world are in plain sight. Uncertainty...

Soul to Soul

The loud clang, clang, clang of the church bells resounding across the quad combined with the incessant chatter of excited kids running out of...

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