grace
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Days 15-19 “One foot in front of the other”
She has put “one foot in front of the other” more times than anyone I know. The elegance & grace with which she has done that has kept many shadows at bay – for others whose lives she has illuminated… Continue reading
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Days 237-241 – 105 Years of Grace
On August 21, as the total eclipse cuts America on the bias, my grace-filled mother turns 105. Molly Chapman had to live more than a century to experience this astronomical magic. At the rate she is going she will make… Continue reading
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Days 319-323 Folds of Grace
Work at any job for ten, twenty or thirty years & it becomes hard to see the elegance around us. When we find it our days breathe meaning. The world harbors dark pain. The world offers startling folds of grace. Continue reading
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Days 219-220 – Anger & Compassion
“One of the hardest practices of Radical Loving Care is adopting an attitude of grace amid another’s anger.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 240-242 – “The Steady Gaze” – What the Dying Know
“…the only thing death can take is our body, something that may be less important than we imagined. Love’s energy, unburdened by our weight, can then embrace us completely giving us a whole new way of being.” – Erie Chapman… Continue reading
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Days 340-344 – Catching Rain
“In order to “catch” Love, we may need to loosen our death-grip on the harder realities of caregiving – to let God sprinkle the important discipline of our skill with the mysteries of the heart. Can we learn from a… Continue reading
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Days 261-262 – The Price of Grace
“The high price Grace requires is that we pay for her by facing every moment, not just the happy ones. Lacking this, we fall into the half-light of ordinary life. Today offers itself to us. Tonight beckons.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 153-155 – Learning to Love
Love comes to us when we yield to it. Not when we try to conquer it…the moment of highest epiphany is called Grace. Continue reading
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Hidden Compassion
As we feel the gifts in our own lives, grace arrives. And grace is contagious. Continue reading
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