Children – Take Off Your Shoes

A prayer for the innocents

March 19, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

by Donna Arington Petraits March 17, 2021 An ordinary day. Sun sinking on an early spring evening. Warm for March, and perfect for playing hide

Infant Grave

March 9, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

by Julie Martin Hutson, In Memorium The ground gapes, but only slightly, to receive this small one It is as though the ground were a

We know

February 26, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

A prayer about the complicity of silence by adults, in the sexual abuse of children by those entrusted with their care.

What did you learn at school today?

May 11, 2017 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

There’s an age-old dialogue between children and parents. It begins long before the children have a two-digit age, in those first years when they are

A Place For All The Feels

August 6, 2016 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

When my youngest son was in elementary school, the feelings teacher, a trained counselor, visited their classrooms regularly to talk to the children about feelings.

Remember

September 4, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I snuck into The Corner today. The Corner is an office I share at work with the preschool director. It is a space-in-process, as is

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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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