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About isplainasjane

Minister of Word and Sacrament, PC(USA). M. Div. writes. preaches. teaches. speaks. encourages, God is love.

Christmas came early this year

Posted on November 28, 2013 by isplainasjane

I haven’t posted in a while.  I’ve been immersed, body and heart, in Advent.  Yes, today is Thanksgiving and the first Sunday of Advent isn’t until this coming Sunday, December 1.  But Christmas came to my family early this year.  … Continue reading →

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Seeking Center

Posted on October 25, 2013 by isplainasjane

It was my first meeting of this sort.   There was an important controversial matter up for discussion and vote which would most surely prove to be lively. A decision that would inform the future of the larger body. I had … Continue reading →

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seeing jesus

Posted on October 18, 2013 by isplainasjane

I arrived early in the morning to begin my day as chaplain on duty. After checking in I made my way to the pediatric chronic care unit to check on Martin. Martin was thirteen years old and, due to many … Continue reading →

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Beauty and the beast in my head

Posted on October 11, 2013 by isplainasjane

At age ten I fell in love with the ocean for the first time. Well, it was really the Gulf of Mexico as it looked from the sea wall in Galveston, Texas, but it was love at first sight. I … Continue reading →

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Remembering into memory

Posted on October 1, 2013 by isplainasjane

What is your earliest memory? I’ve read that around 3 is about the time memory can kick into action as that is about the point in our development when we discover we’re our own persons. Hmm, it took me much … Continue reading →

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Self consciously, she blogs

Posted on September 24, 2013 by isplainasjane

This whole blog thing was really three years and some months in the making. I took a writing class the last semester of seminary and a whole new world opened up to me. A scary, intimidating, exhilarating, challenging, frustrating, fun- … Continue reading →

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Learning what is

Posted on September 20, 2013 by isplainasjane

  It is interesting to me that Jesus didn’t come to us as a king, a lord, or a ruler.  Those titles have come later. (Sometimes I wonder what Jesus really thinks about some of these titles…but that’s for chewing another … Continue reading →

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The need to chew

Posted on September 19, 2013 by isplainasjane

Some years ago I was preparing a message on the 23rd Psalm.  I read that shepherds take their flocks out early in the morning to graze and then make them lie down in (think green) pastures to chew their cud, … Continue reading →

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