Hope – Take Off Your Shoes

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

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

Dallas at Dawn

November 14, 2018 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

It’s chillier here than I expected. I picked up a purple hoodie emblazoned on the front with a graphic Route 66, at a Texas-sized truck

Day 1 / Part 1 LOFG Caravan

November 12, 2018 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Early Monday We met in the dark at the Temple, our group of 7 women and two men. Standing in the cold, circled by a

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

Life Near The Water

August 16, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

When I told my friends I was moving from the Heartland to the barrier islands (to help a dying church), half asked what I had

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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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