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Tag Archives: learning
Seeing the Face of Christ
Last Sunday of Pentecost, Year A (Christ the King)St. Mark’s Episcopal Church: Virtual Worship in a Time of PandemicNovember 22, 2020 Lectionary Texts: Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24Psalm 95:1-7aEphesians 1:15-23Matthew 25:31-46 Sometimes Christ the King looks like a short, hunched-over woman with … Continue reading
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Tagged christ the king, dignity, empathy, homelessness, learning, Matthew 25, Mental health, reign of christ, social work
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The Face I See
A Sermon for the Last Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (Christ the King) Lectionary Readings Sometimes the Reign of Christ looks like a short, hunched-over women with wildly cut hair, sipping sweet tea with lemon, savoring the last bite of … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, christ the king, counseling, deinstitutionalization, expectation, Holy Spirit, homelessness, Jesus, learning, liberation, Matthew 25:31-46, Mental health, poverty, presence, reign of christ, sermon, sheep and the goats, social work, student, the least of these, when did we see you Lord
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Impermanence
During the years of my life where I set myself adrift from organized religion, I began to enjoy reading the sacred stories of many different faith traditions. Being pretty high on the introvert scale, I’ve always been drawn to contemplative … Continue reading
Posted in work and life
Tagged buddhism, chistianity, cling, dream, dreams, faith, identity, impermanence, learning, letting go, mandala, prayer, sand mandala, spirituality, tibetan buddhism
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shattered
My daughter has grown fond of saying that the only thing she and I have in common is the roundness of our faces. While some people seem to think we have a “mini-me” thing going on, she has always taken … Continue reading
Posted in work and life
Tagged adolescence, bond, broken, brokenness, childhood, children, daughters, gifts, God, growth, healing, insight, learning, love, meditations, mothers, Parenting, reflections, repair, spirituality, strengths, teens, tweens
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Spoken Word
When I was twenty-one and in social work school, I look a class in solution-focused brief therapy. Back in the day, this was cutting edge and transformational to the way in which traditional psychotherapy was taught: lengthy problem-focused assessment and … Continue reading
Posted in work and life
Tagged #Ferguson, learning, oppression, poetry, social justice, social work, solution focused brief therapy, spoken word, Steve DeShazer, students, teaching, vcu, video, words, writing
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Forty Four
On this day, as the calendar of my life flips another year, I realize once again how things have changed, how much I have learned, and how grateful I am for what this year has offered me on my journey. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and verse, Spiritual journey, work and life
Tagged birthday, Contemplation, faith, God, learning, lessons, life lessons, reflection
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First Lecture
As the ball dropped to welcome 1995, I made one firm resolution: Teach a class. I was working as a social worker at the time, and I had just been promoted to the Director of my tiny department. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Spiritual journey, work and life
Tagged college, Education, faith, journey, learning, ministry, Serendipity, teaching, vocation
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Seeing the Light 2: Learning
Something that has hooked me in to teaching are the “a-ha” moments where the proverbial light-bulb goes off and new information strikes a chord between teacher and learner. On a really good day, these lightbulb moments are bidirectional, and we … Continue reading
Posted in Lent 2014, work and life
Tagged dignity, divine presence, learning, lightbulb moment, spirituality, teaching, worth
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Living Water 6: Rainy Day Reflection
It feels poetic (yet hopefully not overdone) to convey that I am sitting to write this final reflection on “living water” for the week on a rainy, spring morning. My backyard looks like a classic calendar scene of almost-April showers: … Continue reading
Posted in Lent 2014
Tagged Blessing, dream, Grief, growth, holy water, learning, Lent, lessons, loss, rain, spirituality, water, writing
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Have the Conversation
In this week where we are about to celebrate the Fourth of July, we the people of the United States have finally started having a conversation. Granted, we are still firing up our grills and bantering about whether air shows … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, conversation, dialogue, differences, discomfort, discrimination, DOMA, gender bias, heterosexism, justice, learning, Paula Deen, privilege, Racism, reconciliation, sexism, social work, Wendy Davis
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