Both Whole and Healing
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I was diagnosed with a chronic pain disorder when I was 35 years old. Though my symptoms can be traced back many years earlier, I had managed to, well, manage the pain for some time. That was no longer possible. Finally getting the diagnosis was a relief, but what it meant for my future was uncertain.
Boldly Co-Existing with Mental Illness
Another Helping of Brokenness
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I am prone to sudden jerky movements that are beyond my control. The other day, I was out on an errand. As happens so often when I go out, I experienced how we judge one another. And how sometimes we are both spectacularly loud and spectacularly wrong in our judgments.
Burnt Kabob
From Your Minister
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Recently, at one of CLF’s online worship services, we featured a guest minister, Teresa Ines Soto, who lives with cerebral palsy.
REsources for Living
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I don’t know about your family, but in my family healthy eating is an ongoing battle. Yes, I am the kind of parent who generally thinks that junk food is bad, and vegetables are good. Not surprisingly, my daughter is equally strong in her opinion that junk food is good, and vegetables are to be avoided at all costs.
Our Birthright of Healing
The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, so much a part of a common human birthright, that we believers in technology pay very little attention to them. But they have lost none of their power.From Loneliness to Solitude
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One Sunday morning several years ago I stood on the front steps and greeted those who arrived. These front step greetings are one of my favorite rituals of Sunday morning—a chance for me to connect, if only briefly, with each and every person who walks through the doors. It allows me to take the temperature, if you will, of the congregation.
Power of One
Finding Strength in Silence
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Mother Teresa said: “To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
I first started doing volunteer work in college. I volunteered with Beyond War, a non-profit that highlights the dangers of nuclear war. I volunteered with Results, a non-profit that uses the power of letter-writing to effect policy change on hunger in developing countries and the United States. I volunteered with the National Organization for Women, a non-profit that promotes the equality of women and men.
