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Day 23: Fight the Darkness
Rachel: birthing Benjamin Madeleine L’Engle Fight the darkness. Fight. Let the night not rise. Push the shadows back with tearless eyes. Fight the darkness. Bright is the loving heart pierced by the sword of light, thrusting the darkness back. Let night not rise. Fight the darkness. Start the fear-filled fight. Love is the…
Day 22 – Dancing On Fear
Bumped from the archives to continue the theme of fear – and wow. We’re coming up on the 25th anniversary this year. “The wall was an edifice of fear…For 28 years, East Germans could not even approach it. On Nov. 9, 1989, people danced on it — and the world looked different afterward” —…
Day 21 – Harry Potter
Day 20 – Christians Who Are Afraid
I’m reading Harry Potter for the first time, finally, and of course, it’s amazing. And that fact has left me wondering just what exactly the point of being a Christian is. Because it seems to me that everything I was taught growing up in church was just a big exercise in isolationism. My faith…
Day 19 – Self-Care Sunday
Subscribe to a few cool newsletters and find inspiration in your inbox all week long! (You can even set up filters so they go directly into a separate folder, so it doesn’t overwhelm your inbox.) Some newsletters I subscribe to: Brain Pickings Weekly In the fourth of the book’s thirteen extraordinary essays, titled “Flight,” Solnit…
Day 18 – Songs for Saturday
Day 17 – Because They Are Hard
A little Photoshop fun with a couple pictures I took. Also, a reminder that I’m taking orders for November’s issue of Walking Brave! Click to find all posts in the series.
Day 16 – World Food Day
The needs of the world are too great, the suffering and pain too extensive, the lures of the world too seductive for us to begin to change the world, unless we are changed, unless conversion of life and morals becomes our pattern.” – William Willimon “{Cooking} connects us to nature: you’re working…
Day 15 – Links for Mindfulness
Two great websites: Mindful Elephant Journal A couple of articles: 7 Things Mindful People Do Differently and How To Get Started The intention of being more present in our lives is continuing to grow and touch an increasing amount of people. I have friends who I never would have imagined practicing mindfulness who now sit…