December 2015 – Take Off Your Shoes

Christmas 2015

December 25, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Around Thanksgiving, a friend confessed that the thing he needed most this Christmas was some hope. His plea would not let me be: “Do you

Shoot

December 8, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

At an Earth Day celebration in 1992, I volunteered to hand out information about the upcoming Brady Bill, which would mandate federal background checks on firearm

Prepare

December 7, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

“…Prepare the way of the Lord…” — Isaiah 40, Matthew 3, Mark 1, Luke 3, Godspell, Days of Elijah … etc. We are living in troubling

Back Words

December 5, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Isaiah 40: 8 to 1 8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever. The word, standing, in

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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