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Life and laundry

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

You know how sometimes life seems to just stack up like laundry? Like the kind of laundry that gets washed and dried and folded and set aside until the pile grows so high that it’s too heavy to move, or … Continue reading →

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Candles

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Today, my friend is burying his father, who died on Sunday, the sixth anniversary of my own mother’s death. On Sunday, I lit a candle for my mother at the back of the church, and a young parishioner came to … Continue reading →

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A dark night

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Around three this morning, I heard my daughter come up the stairs, and I rolled over and went back to sleep. Later this morning I read the news from across the country of those who did not come home from … Continue reading →

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Year B, Proper 9: Hometown preaching

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

July7/8th, 2012, St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Elyria, Ohio One summer, my son wanted to buy me a gift. All through our vacation, whenever there was a gift shop or stall, he asked to buy me something, and I kept saying … Continue reading →

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Prayer cycle

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

It is fairly well accepted that a change of scenery, a new activity, can shake up our thinking; derail our trains of thought; get the wheels out of the grooves, the ruts they’ve been stuck in. My daughter tells me … Continue reading →

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Stop and smell the roses

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

The advice to stop once in a while to smell the roses is all well and good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work so well for me: I am anosmic, which means that I am lacking a sense of smell. Still … … Continue reading →

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An hour with the Spirit

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

At church, we are reading Martha Grace Reese’s book, Unbinding your Heart, part of her Unbinding the Gospel series. It includes a forty-day prayer journal to follow individually as a group (as it were), praying the exercises each day and … Continue reading →

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Working Mother

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

I know that I should know better than to wade into murky water, but over the past week, there’s been a lot of talk about work, motherhood, and how they fit together. I am not going to tell you what … Continue reading →

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Anglican prayer beads: A Lenten cycle

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Revised and updated Lent 2019. A previous version used “Week” to describe the Cruciform beads, and divided those weeks into “Days” for the smaller 28 beads – which is how I was taught the terminology. However, having discovered that this … Continue reading →

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Year B Epiphany 5: Starry, starry night

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

A sermon for Epiphany 5 and Healing Eucharist at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Elyria, Ohio. Isaiah 40: 21-31; Psalm 147: 1-12; 1 Corinthians 9: 16-23; Mark 1: 29-39 Have you ever been in a really dark place before the dawn? … Continue reading →

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