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Comfort for Stubbed Toes

June 28, 2021 By Laura Shaver 3 Comments

Our five-year-old son is notorious for running around outside barefoot and showing back up on the doorstep with a bleeding stubbed toe. It has not mattered how many times this has occurred, how many reminders we give to put on shoes, or how much it hurts him in the moment, the boy does this over and over again.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: creation, pain, parenting, psalm

To Do or To Be: That is the Question 

May 27, 2020 By Michelle Heed 2 Comments

I miss, no ache, for busyness. In busyness, we find temporary worth, and get an “importance-rush” that nails us to the hamster wheel of frenzy. […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: busy-ness, coronavirus, Family, psalm

Slightly Frantic Liturgy 

May 14, 2020 By Samantha Vincent-Alexander 12 Comments

When I worked with youth, one of my favorite events was an agape meal. It started as a Seder and I eventually started calling it “What Would Jesus Eat” which I found hilarious.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, psalm, young children

Look Up

March 26, 2020 By Laura Shaver 3 Comments

It had been such a rough day. My eyes hurt from crying tears of frustration, and I was tired.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: coronavirus, parenting, psalm

Praying our way on the narrow path

October 5, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

I don’t know about your feed, but mine is full of posts about how to talk to our children about this latest tragedy. Here’s where God led us when we finally did.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: Bible, Book of Common Prayer, human disaster, natural disaster, Prayer, psalm, Scripture, teens, tragedy

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