July 2016 – Take Off Your Shoes

Some Things Are Easy

July 12, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

I locked myself out. Just now. I was going to take a beach walk, and when I got to the outside gate that I needed

They did nothing. Wrong.

July 12, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

Sermon on The Good Samaritan, July 10, 2016, Advent Lutheran Church, Melbourne, FL Luke 10: 29-37 29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And

Doctor My Eyes

July 7, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

A year ago following cataract surgery, I set alarms on my phone to remind me to apply my eye drops at regular intervals. I used

July 4, 2016 Peace

July 4, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

I am sitting by the pool admiring my own navy toenails, the big nail on each foot aglitter with a tri-color firework. I think, I

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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