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freerange friday: Gates, Sheep and Shepherds
By Lilly Lewin This week’s lectionary readings move us from the resurrection story back to the gospel of John. In John 10:1-10 we are called to reflect on Jesus as the Gate and invited to look at...
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Freerange Friday: Take time to BE
by Lilly Lewin I have found myself whining a bit more that usual this week… about the stress of politics, the stress of dealing with an old dog on his last leg, about my lack of productivity and the...
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Freerange Friday: Praying in the Everyday with the Laundry
by Lilly Lewin — The Celtic Christians prayed along the way…they prayed as they got up in the morning and rekindled the fire, they prayed as they went out the door to work, they prayed for family...
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My new spiritual practice: Separating thoughts from feelings
By Lynn Baab — My husband, Dave, now has a chronic lung disease, a form of chronic obstructive lung disease, often called COPD. Watching him suffer has been one of the hardest things I have ever...
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My new spiritual practice: Dealing with “demonic” thoughts
By Lynne Baab — I’ve been writing about what I’ve learned from counseling in the past year. My counselor suggested separating thoughts from feelings, which I described in the first post. In the second...
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My new spiritual practice: Is self-compassion really appropriate for Christians?
By Lynn Baab — Some Pharisees are trying to trick Jesus, and they bring a woman to him. They caught her in the act of committing adultery. Jesus says that only the person who has committed no sin can...
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Freerange Friday: Welcome Mats and Pineapples
by Lilly Lewin This past week at thinplaceNASHVILLE, our house church gathering we host on Sunday nights, we looked at Matthew 22:34-40 which includes loving your neighbor as yourself, especially...
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Freerange Friday: The Gift of Wonder
by Lilly Lewin As we consider the Shalom of God this month, one of the first things that came to mind, after savor, was the gift of WONDER! Jesus says: “Let the little children come unto me.” And he...
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Freerange Friday: Let God Hold
By Lilly Lewin This week, our part of the world is experiencing another major hurricane that has devastated parts of the Caribbean and is on it’s way to Florida. My friends on the West Coast of the US...
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Meditation Monday – A Joy Spiral for Advent
by Christine Sine Last week I talked about the fact that I planned to celebrate Celtic Advent this year which begins November 15th and covers the 40 days before Christmas. My theme for the year is I...
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Freerange Friday: Babystepping into Creation Care
by Lilly Lewin It’s Earth Day this weekend and I have to admit that I’m still on a big learning curve when it comes to taking care of our planet. Sadly, I didn’t grow up believing that planet care and...
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Freerange Friday: God Provides Enough!
by Lilly Lewin Give us this day our daily bread! I was at a retreat recently where Father Michael Sparough led us in the Lord’s Prayer as a body prayer using hand gestures/motions. The action for “give...
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Freerange Friday: The Practice of Parable Walking
by Lilly Lewin Opening Prayer Lord, I know not what to ask of You. You alone know what my true needs are. You love me more than I myself know how to love. Help me to see my real needs, which may be...
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Freerange Friday: The Practice of the Sabbath Box
By Lilly Lewin Happy June! I’m not sure how it happened, but the calendar has changed again! Summer has begun here in Nashville and people are already heading off on trips and holidays and getting...
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Meditation Monday – Shaped By The Hand of God
by Christine Sine In the last couple of months I have become obsessed with hands. It all began when I came across a wonderful DIY project for creating planters shaped like hands out of cement. “Shaped...
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The Art of Bread Making
By Hilary Horn — This past spring I felt the Lord telling me to learn how to make bread. I had never made bread in my life and it seemed like a very daunting task. Like some things, I wasn’t totally...
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Freerange Friday: Still Easter! What Now?
by Lilly Lewin Jesus’s death and then resurrection changes everything for his followers. Even though Jesus warned them what was going to happen, that he would be handed over to the authorities and...
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freerange friday: #RESTisHoly
by Lilly Lewin I have a passion to see people learn how to REST. As a recovering workaholic, I want to help people see the gift that is REST and that this is a gift from God. REST is actually a...
View ArticleThank You Lord For Hearing Our Prayers
Father, thank you for hearing me. You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here. (John 11:41, 42) These words that Jesus prays before raising Lazarus from...
View ArticleWalking Barefoot in the Neighborhood – What Can We Learn
by Andy Wade “Take off your shoes, for the place that you are standing is holy ground.” Those weren’t the words that I heard that day over twenty-five years ago. What I “heard”, or more accurately more...
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