December 2012 – Take Off Your Shoes

Eponine

December 29, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Spoiler alert: If you’ve not yet seen Les Miserables and intend to do so, you might want to wait to read this after you’ve done

Necessary

December 20, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so? It came without ribbons! It came

Molan Labe

December 19, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Readers: Molan Labe is an ancient Greek expression meaning “Come and take them.” You can google the phrase to understand it better, but in short,

Guns

December 19, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Friends whose opinions I respect have convinced me that people having the right to own a gun is a good thing. That the 2nd Amendment

Newtown

December 15, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

We had stopped at Bon Vie for a cup of Lobster Bisque in the middle of our Christmas Shopping. Monica was helping me stay focused;

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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