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Storm Facers

September 9, 2017 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

A word for those facing storms: past, present, and imminent.

Prelude to a wedding

August 17, 2017 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

My youngest son wrote this essay in college, about 4 years ago. I am posting it today, with his permission, in honor of his wedding

The 2nd Plague

June 29, 2016 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

“I might’ve cried a bit as I drifted into the bliss that is sleep when you need to let go, except suddenly I heard a very distinct rattling and “scrtch, crtsh, skitczh” and from the corner of my eye I saw…”

Waiting for Sunrise

March 26, 2016 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I’ve posted this piece for the last two Easters which means it’s dangerously close to becoming my tradition. The thing is, the image that came

Cloudwish

August 14, 2014 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Today I spent hours organizing my words. In Gmail alone, I created folders and tags and placed nearly 21,000 emails in their respective cyber-spaces. It

Greetings

May 20, 2014 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Sister Michelle is my colleague and friend here in Melbourne. She grew up in a family of 8, the daughter of missionaries, in Kenya. Today, she

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Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

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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