Caring for Caregivers

If I fall asleep in the sermon today, it is because of how jealous Chaska and I were of everyone who got those beautiful views of the northern light on Friday, so we sat outside till midnight last night trying to pray the findlay light pollution into northern lights because...

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Becoming Visible

Beauty of Love All you need is love. Love Love Love. Everyone is singing about it. We all desperately need it. In the 1950 John Bowby started writing about “Attachment Theory.” This Evolutionary theory suggests that in order for humans and other animals to survive, they need to create secure...

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Doubting Hands

Hands Poem Hands – Hands meeting in high five A Hand shaking another hand to finalize an agreement. My grandma’s hands snipping green beans, stitching or quilting My daughters hands learning to wave goodbye Mark’s hand waving the baton The hands of the pianist tickling the keys Hand furiously writing...

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Giving Up “Giving Up”

Science: How Does it Work? Butter, coconut oil, cakes, biscuits, sausage, bacon, cheese, ice cream, pie – are all delicious delicious foods. And they have one thing in common: Saturated fats. Saturated fats, often fats that come from animal fat, are heavily saturated with hydrogen because of double bonds or...

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Following a Sheepish God

Sheeple (What are sheep like in popular culture) In preparation for today’s sermon, I was doing some digging on different cultural understandings of lambs. I found this movie called “Silence of the lambs,” but was disappointed to find that there were no lambs in it. More recently in pop culture...

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