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Walking through Advent toward the Light

December 14, 2022 By Mary Lee Wile

Back in the early ‘80’s, when I was still living in Colorado, on Good Friday mornings a friend and I would take the 4 to 5 a.m. Night Watch shift at church, then we’d drive out to Warren Lake.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, grandchildren, politics

Come and worship….

December 25, 2021 By Mary Lee Wile Leave a Comment

Worship has been much on my mind recently, not necessarily the liturgy or the music or whether to be online or in person for Christmas services, but mostly I’ve been pondering the innate human need to worship, and its various manifestations.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Christmas, grandchildren, worship

Through a Glass, Darkly 

April 20, 2020 By Mary Lee Wile 6 Comments

I smile as the 4-year-old shows me Butterscotch, her much-loved bunny; Butterscotch proceeds to die two days later, and I cannot help or hold the child in her grief. 

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Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: coronavirus, Easter, grandchildren, grandparenting

Scratching in the Cat Box of My Mind

March 23, 2020 By Mary Lee Wile 14 Comments

Howard Thurman writes, “In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.”  

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: coronavirus, fear, grandchildren, grandparents, Howard Thurman, Prayer

Perception

November 4, 2019 By Mary Lee Wile Leave a Comment

“Grandma, where’s your mean picture?” asks my seven-year old grandson.“Mean” picture? Our house is full of family photos, paintings, icons – but I can’t think of any “mean” pictures.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: evangelism, Good Shepherd, grandchildren, Jesus

The vast expanse of interstellar space

August 18, 2019 By Mary Lee Wile Leave a Comment

At the local library yesterday, my four-year-old granddaughter listened to stories about stars, and about how everything on earth – including the Earth itself — is made from the debris of exploding stars, known as supernovas.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: grandchildren, space, theology

Jesus with Gray Hair

May 12, 2019 By Mary Lee Wile 3 Comments

Jesus with gray hair? That’s not an image I’d ever imagined, not until my six-year-old granddaughter created one.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: coloring, death, grandchildren, grandparenting, Jesus

Epiphany, Inclusivity, and Restroom Wisdom

January 19, 2019 By Mary Lee Wile 1 Comment

Not long ago, as I waited to use the restroom at Friendly Toast in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I became intensely aware of the sign on the door

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: grandchildren, icons, inclusion, Prayer, strangers

Trying – and sometimes failing – to commend the faith with grandkids at Christmastime.

January 4, 2018 By Mary Lee Wile 5 Comments

Talking with unchurched grandchildren about matters of faith involves a dance whose steps I’m still learning.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, Faith, Family, grandchildren, young children

The Bible and quantum physics teach us: our actions affect future generations.

August 5, 2017 By Mary Lee Wile 1 Comment

What we do now will affect those born a century from now.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Book of Common Prayer, church, community, discipleship, Forward Movement, grandchildren, grandparents, Prayer

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