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Holy contradictions: commemorating Thomas Merton

December 10, 2020 By Mary Lee Wile 3 Comments

Back when my middle-aged sons were little boys, another young mom from church handed me a copy of Thomas Merton’s Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, […]

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, grandparenting, Merton, Prayer, retreat

Saint Simon and Saint Jude: Obscure Saints, Profound Wisdom

October 28, 2020 By Mary Lee Wile 2 Comments

I think we need a virtual army of intercessors, led by this patron saint of desperate causes, to help us through our own current “difficult time.”

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: coronavirus, grandparenting, Prayer, St. Jude

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

Journeying through Lent Together

February 25, 2020 By Allison Sandlin Liles Leave a Comment

This year Episcopal Relief & Development partnered with Grow Christians for their annual Lenten Meditation book.

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Filed Under: Lent, Prayer, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Episcopal Relief & Development, godparenting, grandparenting, Lent, meditations, parenting

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

Resurrection, With Wounds

August 31, 2018 By Mary Lee Wile 4 Comments

“Resurrection comes amid the deep loss that plunges us into darkness, when life hurts and makes no sense.” Br. Luke Ditewig, SSJE The day after […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, grandparenting, pain, resurrection, school

Sandwiched

August 27, 2018 By Emily Rutledge 8 Comments

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one that was actually there, And that has made all the difference. A […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: adult children, caretaking, dementia, grandparenting

The Atypical Church

May 21, 2018 By Joy Caires 4 Comments

My heart broke again. It started in the car. “Mama, no one will include me at recess. I keep asking to play, but everyone already has […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Children in church, grandparenting, parenting

Help me up, this is my song

May 7, 2018 By Christian Simmers 4 Comments

Some of my first memories of our tiny country church are in the first pew, sitting right next to my great-grandmother. After raising my grandmother […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices, Uncategorized Tagged With: Children in church, Family, grandparenting, Music, young children

My morning prayers keep me focused on the Holy Spirit’s presence.

June 9, 2017 By Mary Lee Wile 7 Comments

For twenty years, my prayer practice reminded me that my children were sealed with the Holy Spirit and marked as Christ’s own forever.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: grandparenting, Holy Spirit, Pentecost, Prayer

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