Wisdom of the Child
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Thursday, September 09, 2010
This afternoon I was having a momentary freak-out, end-of-day flash of melt that wasn’t pretty. Not at all. It was just one of those split-second flashes where the reality of the situation was greatly overshadowed by my annoyance and also the number of discarded shoes left on the front-room floor. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of life but actually yes totally a very big deal.
Because everyone... READ MORE
She Shouldn't Be Afraid
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Friday, June 25, 2010
For years my daughter was terrified to have clothes put on over her head.
We’d become resigned to it, become experts at sliding shirts and dresses over her small ribs, at maneuvering shoulders through necklines.
Then a few months ago, she finally responded to my coaxing and agreed to try putting a shirt over her head. I promised her that the hole was big enough, and she summoned her courage, grabbed... READ MORE
An Easter Thought
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Friday, April 09, 2010
“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realised the new wonder; but even they hardly realised that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden,... READ MORE
‘Thy Will Be Done’
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Thursday, April 09, 2009
The Agony in the Garden has always been a powerful meditation for me.
“Not my will but thine be done.” The call of the Christian life is to make those words our own. It is a call to unite ourselves to Christ weeping in the garden and to realize that surrendering our will to our Father’s is not merely a good idea, but absolutely crucial.
Throughout the struggles in my life I have worked to achieve... READ MORE
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