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Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals to us what is alive in us. The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey of which we do not know the final destination."

- Henri Nouwen

Disappointment

I hesitate to call them disappointments. However, I am left without an appropriate word for the situations we have continually found ourselves up against since

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Jumble

The sound of raindrops on the skylight startled me. I’d forgotten the once familiar noise; thought maybe a cat burglar (or just a cat) had

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Joy

A few years ago I started running. It was part of this boot camp thing I was doing. Before the sun peeped through the smog,

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in real life

Love stories end with a first kiss, proposal or wedding. Babies are born in 30 minutes, and the new mom always look serene and beautiful.

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Rest

My children were skating down the aisle of Target. Fuzzy toilet seat covers under each foot, they raced each other back and forth. Slipping, sliding

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When Daily Bread Goes Stale

Each morning they picked up their bread from the ground, for forty years. On a journey they weren’t expecting, impatient with God’s misdirection and seeming neglect,

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Older

There are a lot of things in my life that I would like to do, but I feel like time and experience need to be

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