March 2012 – Take Off Your Shoes

So Much To Do!

March 28, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Today in my Lenten devotional by Henri Nouwen I read that Freedom is the core of the spiritual life. And I think, Ha! Not feeling very

Musing on A Fresh Coat of Paint

March 19, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Spring has sprung here in central Ohio. I have bright yellow tulips splashed with scarlet, deep purple crocus, pastel daffodils, and a primary yellow forsythia all

Raising Half-Full Glasses

March 16, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Anticipating…a conference tonight with a woman from church I’ve been yearning to know better. We go to be inspired and discover how to bring an

How does it feel…forgiveness?

March 13, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Nouwen writes today of forgiveness, something I have been studying. “It is hard for me to forgive someone who has really offended me, especially when

Born Again

March 10, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

When people receive life-saving organ transplants, they are said to have a second birthday; their life has begun again. Today, March 10th, is Bill Danison’s

Broken Hearts

March 9, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

At 8:30 this morning, a woman in my congregation received the phone call we had been praying for: that a desperately needed heart had become

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I notice connections between people, events, movies, music, writings, the spoken word, that seem independent of one another. I write and speak about these connections because I have been created for this work and it has the potential to draw people together and transform rough places into plains of peace. I am a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; a writer whose muse is active and insistent; a lover of new experiences; a dreamer of old. I am fueled by both music and silence; I appreciate truths that can only be conveyed in whispers, if in any language at all. I have more friends than I deserve, a big fat french family I adore, and a lovely apartment with a fireplace in front of which I am now leading virtual worship. My most palpable experience of God's presence took place in a chapel in Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In that place, where every great world religion was depicted by both name and symbol, a miracle took shape in 2005 that continues to inform my faith today. I believe the key to world peace is our willingness to understand one another and take the risks required to do that. My two sons are some of God's finest work; they are a blessing to me and to the world. I thank God for every single day of this wonder we know as life. And I thank you, for stopping by to take off your shoes and step into the shoes of those whose stories I am privileged to tell.

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