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Devotional Making Disciples

God speaks

We walk. Blue-skied afternoon. Fallen leaves swirling on the path. Picked up and scattered by the wind. 

An after-Thanksgiving-dinner tradition, this walk takes us through shade and cold. To places in the sun. Beside the lake. Where water moves, reflecting rays.

The after-Thanksgiving-dinner walk through the neighborhood.

Conversations and laughter accompany this walk. As we breathe cool air in the shifting light.  

The evidence of God’s creation and Presence is all around us on that restful stroll through the neighborhood. And I think about the ways God speaks. Breathes. And moves.

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Memoir

Attic mystery

Here’s a little light reading for Thanksgiving week. True story. From the archives. And the attic. 

Todd arrived home late one night. After a long trip. When he opened the front door, the first thing he saw was me. Standing at the top of the stairs, on the second floor. Gripping a cricket bat with both hands. 

What? 

I silently pointed to the air vent in the ceiling. One little paw was reaching down, clawing at the air. I whacked the ceiling and it retreated. 

I had no idea what “it” was. But I wasn’t about to let it just waltz down into our home.

Photo by Joanna Kosinska, from Unsplash
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Devotional

Legacy

Legacy, unintentional.
From the least likely.
A poor widow
unnamed
obscure
hidden
in the shadows
of wealthy patrons.
Slipping in
behind
crowds and
considerable contributions
at the temple coffers.

A mite–still in circulation when the poor widow gave at the temple in Mark 12. Photo: widowsmite. Public domain on Wikipedia
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