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Palm Sunday: The Forest Path
Reflection Point:
âAll that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.â
âJ.R.R. Tolkien
Scripture:
âThey took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, âHosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!ââ (John 12:13)...
As Jesusâ enemies circled, and the end of everything approached, the disciples hoped Jesus would do something. Itâs our first impulse: âwhat can we do?â What Jesus did was go off alone to âwatch and prayâ. And he told his disciples to do the same. This sounded to them like âdonât do anything,â so th...
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âWhy, yesâŚyes you can. And with great compassion and integrity!â
Emily Askew, PhD.
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This is the answer I have given hundreds of times to people who do not believe that
online learning can be as good as face-to-face (F2F) learning in creating community,
offering a rigorous curriculum, and at...
Reflection Point: âA tiny sapling can feed the world and a small hope can lead the lives.â âRuthwik Reddy Sunketa
Scripture: âJesus said: What is God's kingdom like? What story can I use to explain it? It is like what happens when a mustard seed is planted in the ground. It is the smallest seed in ...
Reflection Point:Â âThe oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.â âJames Allen
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Scripture:Â Then Jesus said, âThis is what Godâs kingdom is like. Itâs as though someone scatters seed on the...
âFiction is crisis.â I was reminded of this Jonathan Mayberry quote in a recent article in
Writerâs Digest. Ryan Given Cleave wrote how fiction is all about the characterâs messy
life. You donât write about a bunch of happy people having a lovely day. âInstead, itâs
about embracing tension, chall...
Reflection Point: âLife does not accommodate you, it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.â âFlorida Scott-Maxwell
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Scripture: "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair." (2 Corinthians 4:8)
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Wisdom from a ...
I was in my 20âs when I went through my dark night of the soul. The once strong, tightly wound pieces of my belief system slowly started to unravel. At the time I was also burned out and exhausted. And the one part of my life that was always my constant, my faith, didnât make sense anymore. I had ne...
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Reflection Point: "The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light." -Sandra Kring
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Scripture: Jesus said, "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it b...
The season of Lent can offer grounding and growth.Â
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Lent is a 40-day period leading up to Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday (it falls on March 5th this year). It is a sacred time of prayer, fasting, and almsgivingâa season where divine grace and human participation intertwine. Rooted in Christi...
At the end of her life, when my mom was living in an independent living facility, she gave canned cokes to the workers when she especially liked someone. Mom thought of it as a âthank you.â The
residents were not supposed to offer tip money to those who worked in the building, but Mom didnât think of...
As a teacher, you learn as much from the students as they may learn from us. In the Wisdom Tree Collectiveâs 2024 Spiritual Direction Cohort, this question was asked:
âWhat are you aware of now that you were not aware of before taking this course?â
One of our first-year students responded as such...
