Observations on life by Rev. Marie DuquetteJune 2013Take Off Your Shoes

Yourself

June 17, 2013 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the

ELCA Presiding Bishop’s message includes a Shout-Out to Malaysia

June 11, 2013 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Originally posted on Flung Forth Anew:
Recently, each synod in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA – having 65 synods) watched this video at…

Laps

June 10, 2013 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I’d never describe myself as an athlete, but the one place I come close to being athletic is in a pool. In college, I often

Chair

June 7, 2013 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I live in Florida now. Indialantic, Florida…beachside as the locals call it. Almost one month ago exactly, Sr. Michelle, my new colleague flew to Ohio

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 home whose windows are level with the trees in this city I love. 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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