Pastor – Take Off Your Shoes

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

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

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

French, fried: A True Slice of Life

August 30, 2010 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Why do they always do that? It’s Marie. The french version. Not the Spanish version. Can you not tell by looking at me? I am even a substitute French teacher for heaven’s sake!

August 23, 2010: Tilt

August 23, 2010 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

During a funeral at which I officiated a couple of hours ago, the grandsons of the deceased, all 20-somethings in a Metallica band that is

August 20, 2010: Absorb

August 21, 2010 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

After laying to rest another beautiful, beloved member of the human race today, I came home to a shopping date with my oldest son, Adam,

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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