Acceptance – Take Off Your Shoes

Where Does It Hurt?

March 31, 2020 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Tonight it hits me hard: the losses, the tsunami approaching, the preparation that is less than we need and all that we have. The Zoom

Wrestling

January 5, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

26 “Then he said, ‘Let me go, for the day is breaking.’ But Jacob said, ‘I will not let you go, unless you bless me.‘” –Genesis

Reconciling

June 10, 2014 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

The 5 Point Cafe in Belltown may be the best dive bar I’ve ever visited. It has Steak-Bites, an afternoon snack of marinated grilled sirloin

August 18, 2010: Shed

August 18, 2010 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

My maintenance man is here as I type. Clearing my tresses out of my bathroom sink drain so the water will not pool forcing me

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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