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Language as Sacrament – Day Nine
Language as Sacrament – Day Nine Nicole

When I was in primary school grammar instruction was compulsory, precise and rigorous. Understand the categories and rules and I could receive an ‘A.’ While I was an exemplary student, I am also mildly dyslexic—I just didn’t know it then. Categorization is excruciating for one with a dyslexic processing brain. And word order? Oy gevalt!…

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Confirming Love – Day Seven
Confirming Love – Day Seven Nicole

Today was Confirmation Sunday at our church. It was such an honor to hear the brief description each student shared about what confirmation means to him or her, along with a meaningful verse. Each one was a benediction and a prayer for the congregation, at once affirming their place in the community and reinforcing the…

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Let’s Talk About Hormones – Day Five
Let’s Talk About Hormones – Day Five Nicole

Our bodies are constantly shifting, changing. Eat a piece of candy and you experience a brightening of cognition, a sugar rush. Not enough sleep and muscles are slower to respond, thinking is muddled. A teenager experiences wildly fluctuating hormones that can induce at once utter despair and elation at the touch from the object of…

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Love Mercy – Day Four
Love Mercy – Day Four Nicole

On this fourth day into contemplating turning 50, desperately resisting the compulsion to take the easy route and apply the term angst (though it is likely more akin to ambivalence—but, more on that later), I am drawn to consider mercy. A recent entry to a blog I follow reviewed Anne Lamott’s book, Hallelujah Anyway, with a…

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Endure, Stand, at the Pace of Grace – Day Three
Endure, Stand, at the Pace of Grace – Day Three 150 150 Nicole

On this day, fifty years ago, Katherine Switzer began the #BostonMarathon. The problem was, women were not allowed to participate. Two miles into the contest, the race director, Jack Semple, fully angered at the realization that a woman had somehow slipped in attempted to physically force her out. Tom Miller, her boyfriend at the time,…

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Faithful Fifties – Day Two
Faithful Fifties – Day Two 150 150 Nicole

You may have heard of this resource called Google? Apparently, all the kids are using it these days. I jest, of course, but cannot restrain a groan when my kids lament the lack of speed with which their search tab opens and employ the term ‘google’ as a verb, and I recall those early days…

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Forty Days of Contemplating Fifty
Forty Days of Contemplating Fifty 150 150 Nicole

Yesterday marked the culmination of Christian faith, the end of forty days of Lenten spiritual practice, and the celebration of ultimate sacrifice—ultimate love—the journey of Jesus through hell into resurrected life to make clear an unimpeded intimacy between God and me. Today I find myself facing another forty-day slice of time anticipating my 50th birthday.…

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Lenten Prayer Practice – Day Twenty-Nine
Lenten Prayer Practice – Day Twenty-Nine Nicole

#Breath of Heaven quench these dry bones, today. Holy Trinity, center me now that I may notice Your creative intention, nest in the broad, safe space of Your presence, and intentionally nurture another with the same. What word or phrase do I notice on which I may center: Ezekiel 37:11-14  Then he said to me, “Mortal,…

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Fourth Sunday of Lent – Celebrate!
Fourth Sunday of Lent – Celebrate! Nicole

“All Things Right” ~But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. [Amos5:24] by, Nicole S Oliver SnyderI #celebrate the creative germ. How might I nourish the creative seed at my core today? #makeallthingsright #justiceandrighteousness Making All Things Right Minutest of the infinitesimal    In gravity’s faint force, perceived, Yet bears…

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Lenten Prayer Practice – Day Twenty-Eight
Lenten Prayer Practice – Day Twenty-Eight Nicole

Where is #darkness in my life in which I need faith to see light? #helpmyunbelief With God even #darknessislight Holy Trinity, center me now that I may notice Your creative intention, nest in the broad, safe space of Your presence, and intentionally nurture another with the same. What word or phrase do I notice on…

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