“All I know about Mary is that she pondered in her heart and she wore a blue sheet!”Thinking back to this exasperated line in one of the Church Basement Ladies musicals, “Away in the Basement.” The young girl destined to play Mary in the Christmas Pageant was frustrated that there was not more information available […]
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Sunflowers and your right to be heard.
Earlier this week, my mom and I learned that sunflowers were once the symbol of womens’ fight to be heard in public. These particular sunflowers are located in upstate New York, near the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the writer and idea-generator behind the women’s movement and organizer of the first Women’s Rights convention in […]
What dream would you like to explore in reality over the next six months?
What dream would you like to explore into reality over the next six months?Discern by Doing is open for new group members. It’s for the dreamers who want to be doers. It’s for the faithful servants who have outgrown their current way of serving. It’s for the people who assume that the story inside them […]
What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?You wait for some things because they are out of your control. (Hello, New York City subway system.)You wait for some things because they are better after a short pause (hello, boiling water poured over a tea bag.)But you wait for some things unnecessarily. You make up reason that you have […]