Fear – 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

The Big Chill

January 31, 2019 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

“I give you a new commandment—to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples—if

They did nothing. Wrong.

July 12, 2016 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Sermon on The Good Samaritan, July 10, 2016, Advent Lutheran Church, Melbourne, FL Luke 10: 29-37 29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And

Doctor My Eyes

July 7, 2016 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

A year ago following cataract surgery, I set alarms on my phone to remind me to apply my eye drops at regular intervals. I used

Ten years gone

May 2, 2011 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Thoughts rolling in my head like clothes in a dryer this morning as I watch the coverage saying that finally Osama Bin Laden has been

Harry Potter

August 28, 2010 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Today there is a huge rally going on in Washington D.C. The Restore Honor Rally, the brainchild of Glenn Beck. I tuned into the live-streaming feed on facebook long enough to be sufficiently shaken. And without debating the politics, the patriotism, the streaming comments from supporters and haters alike, one thing was clear: we are a country of frightened people.

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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