May 2016 – Take Off Your Shoes

Just Mercy

May 28, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

There is an urgency to this season that I did not experience in the years when I could live dangerously and put off until today what I might have done then.

Memorial Day is No Picnic

May 26, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

As the Memorial Day weekend approaches, I’m aware of how many people will visit cemeteries to remember loved ones whose exit from this world ushered

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 was a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for twenty years. I remain 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, a partner whose love inspires my days. We share a cozy condo with our dog Nala, and cat, Picasso. 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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