Observations – Take Off Your Shoes

Pumpkins Past Their Prime

January 12, 2023 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

“Trauma doesn’t have to speak for us to see it is present. It announces itself in abandoned decorations from another season. It whispers through the holes of broken toys. It screams from stickers slapped on doors.”

What did I do in 2022?

December 31, 2022 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Making a New Year’s Resolution lost its appeal for me years ago. For me, resolutions feel confining but imagining feels freeing. In the second half

Heaven Imaged

May 19, 2022 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

I wrote this in response to someone asking me what I think happens when we die. Certain pieces of this image are in fact based

Something happened

March 29, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

by Desirée Uhrich Something happened to me and I will never be the same. You know what happened, Lord. I don’t need to write it down. But

You Saw Me

March 9, 2021 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

by Karen Martin Kepner God, you saw me. I got out of the car and put on my mask. I opened the back gate of

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

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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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