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Many dwelling places
There is more; there are many rooms, Jesus says, in God’s house: room for all of God’s children to roam and find their place. In God’s home and heart are many dwelling places, and sometimes we need more than one in a lifetime, if we are to grow and become the person God intended us to be. Continue reading
Because love is the miracle
Love is what it takes
to make the other
miracles true… Continue reading
Posted in blessings, homily, poetry, prayer
Tagged love, marriage, miracle, wedding of Cana
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To become whole
A sermon for the service of Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, including the Blessing of the Animals, at the Church of the Epiphany, Euclid, Ohio. Readings include Genesis 2:18-24 I heard not long ago of someone in this developed and modern … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged animal blessing, creation, equality, gender expression, marriage, marriage equality
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Reconciling love
Into this covenant Ann and Ben now come to be married. May their witness to the love and faithfulness of Christ warm our hearts, our may our joy at their union be reckoned to us as a reconciling righteousness. Amen. Continue reading
The ghosting of a marriage
There are things they forget to tell you about being married. They advise you not to go to bed angry, to be kind, attentive, grateful, to say seven nice things every day. They may tell you to keep communications open … Continue reading
Since
I watch her in the early light, her breath slight, her skin soft; barely there, she is solidly unconcerned. Since, she has become like a little sparrow, evasive yet everywhere; I saw one in a Walmart once, swooping between the … Continue reading
Seven years
Seven times seven years married, seven years past; a rose remembers.
Valentine’s Day
A poem from a couple of years ago, when the only time in the day that I saw my husband was as our cars passed on opposite sides of the highway’s central divide. This year, he’s out of state. Oh … Continue reading
An apology
To those hurting and heartbreaking, angry and frustrated after yesterday’s vote in North Carolina: I’m sorry. I’m sorry that as a woman married to a man I am part of a majority that has said, “My love is sacred and … Continue reading
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Tagged apology, Christian, civil rights, families, gay marriage, love, marriage, North Carolina marriage amendment
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Wives, be subject to your husbands
This afternoon, I heard that passage from Ephesians read in worship, by a woman, and I smiled. I smiled because I knew that she was going to have something to say about it! I smiled, too, because it reminded me … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, Ephesians 5, equality, household code, marriage, sermon
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