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About harasprice

Episcopal Priest, Social Worker, Professor, parent, teacher, learner, writer, advocate, and grateful traveller along this journey through life. Serving as the Vocations Minister for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

Holy Ground 1: New Home

When we first moved to Virginia, our daughter was only two. My spouse and I drove one car cross-country to close on our new house and meet the moving van. Our daughter stayed with her Aunts and Uncles in Missouri … Continue reading

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Holy Ground: Week 1 of Cultivating Sacred Space

This week, my writing and my spiritual journal follows the theme of Holy Ground, which is the weekly theme for the Lenten “Cultivating Sacred Space” virtual program I’m curating for my faith community. Feel free to join us; click the … Continue reading

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Doves

I am writing today with my back door open, looking out onto my deck. My spouse started a fire in the fire pit with remnant branches from trees that have fallen in our yard this past fall and winter. The … Continue reading

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Leaders

Tonight, as I sit to write, I am thinking about leadership. I have had the chance to reflect on this theme often this week, numerous times and in various ways. Sometimes, my own leadership has been the center of exploration … Continue reading

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Pelican

Yesterday, a pelican crossed my path as I started out on my Lenten journey of Cultivating Sacred Space. Admittedly, it was not an actual flesh-and-blood pelican, but its appearance in my life on Ash Wednesday was fortuitous, nevertheless. This particular … Continue reading

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Lent 2014: Cultivating Sacred Space

It was last year, on Ash Wednesday, when I started this blog at the end of my work day. All that day, I had been recalling the memory of My First Ashes. I am fairly tech savvy because of some … Continue reading

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Fashnacht

There are so many names for this day: Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, or as it was when I grew up, “the day Gramma made doughnuts.” In fact, it was one specific doughnut…the fashnacht…that was a staple this time … Continue reading

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Juxtaposition

There is something about the coming together of opposites that attracts me. I am drawn to juxtapositions, and make my home at the coming together of seemingly opposing forces. My astrological chart would suggest it might be related to my … Continue reading

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Motto

The love you liberate in your work is the only love you keep. –Elbert Hubbard A few weeks prior to my dissertation defense–after I had met with each committee member, made countless changes, lived night and day with the pages … Continue reading

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Asking

Tonight is a quiet night in my house. Homework is happening upstairs, and the news is on in the next room. I have work I could do (as is generally the case). But, I am feeling so much awe…ordinary, everyday, … Continue reading

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