Poetry & Prayers – Page 3 – Take Off Your Shoes

Storm Facers

September 9, 2017 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

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

Prill’s Grace

December 28, 2016 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Prill and I have been friends for 35 years. For most of those years, she has lived in the same location, the same house. Because

Christmas 2015

December 25, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Around Thanksgiving, a friend confessed that the thing he needed most this Christmas was some hope. His plea would not let me be: “Do you

Fr. Nolan’s Funeral

October 13, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Yesterday I attended the funeral of Father Joseph Nolan, a priest who served the Catholic church near me. Fr. Nolan was a good and faithful

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

Soon

November 14, 2012 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

imminent, making it difficult to focus on this moment Imagining the one waiting in the wings We are restless. Preparing Dreading Anticipating Bracing Expecting Rehearsing Hoping

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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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