If history is any indication, we don’t always function well when given the gift of choice. Eve failed miserably in the Garden of Eden, as have each one of us born with her blood coursing through our veins. Choice offers us the blessing of free will and the curse of its consequences. Not all of our choices look like a…
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Day 17: A poem for the Journey
Today, I have the pleasure of writing at the High Calling on our journey into aging. Some of us face this part of the journey with a sort of resigned acceptance and others walk the road marking the milestones with their own small rebellions. I would love for you to meet me at the High Calling and join in the conversation….
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Day 16: Help for the Journey
I didn’t grow up singing hymns. We took a more contemporary approach at our church, so I wasn’t exposed to many hymns until I became an adult. I love the sincerity and the poetry in the lyrics, but I confess I’m not really a fan of the dirge-like accompanying music. Over the years, I developed a soft spot for old…
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Day 15: Hope for the Journey
A few weeks ago, I got it into my head to sign up for the Lucerne Half-Marathon. This month is a busy one, filled with daily blog posts, a few article assignments, Fall break, and my husband’s complete lack of sanity in asking me to plan a week-long driving tour of the entire country of Ireland. (Will he never learn?)…
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Day 14: Dreaming for the Journey
One of the great disadvantages of our frenetic, 24 hour, endless media connectedness, is the inability to find pockets of time for dreaming. For imagining. For creating something out of the silence. To take a journey, one that actually leads somewhere, requires planning. Planning sounds all boring and list-y and like something my husband wishes I would do. But, the…
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