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Without Speaking

by ShethMay 28, 2018April 7, 2020

Silently, with his eyes, (as he watched her tell a story he’s heard a thousand times) he whispered I love you In

Truth: Exhausted

by ShethMay 22, 2018April 7, 2020

I finished my first year of seminary this past Friday, and I’m still at 1% – even after three days of rest. 

Truth: Companion

by ShethMay 15, 2018April 7, 2020

When someone sees me with my Bible open in front of me they always comment how tiny it is and my reply

Truth: Iffy

by ShethMay 8, 2018April 7, 2020

One of the greatest things I’ve discovered in seminary is that among all these future pastors, chaplains, ministers, and leaders, there isn’t

Truth: Words

by ShethMay 1, 2018April 7, 2020

I’m not proud of it, but I must admit that there are times when I’m really good at tearing people down.  Sometimes

Truth: Blinded

by ShethApril 24, 2018April 7, 2020

Over the weekend, riots in Nicaragua claimed at least 24 souls; a suicide bombing in Afghanistan killed more than 55 people; 4

Truth: Monks & Burros

by ShethApril 17, 2018April 7, 2020

With an overabundance of humility, I’d like to say that most days I’m the monk in this poem: reaching out to those

Truth: Love/Hurt

by ShethApril 10, 2018April 7, 2020

As a teenager I fell for the Columbia House Music sales pitch – they’d send me 10 free CD’s for one measly,

Truth: I’m Not Australian.

by ShethApril 3, 2018April 7, 2020

A month before my thirteenth birthday my family and I moved from the suburbs of Denver to a small mountain town three

Is. Is. Is. And Will Be.

by ShethApril 1, 2018April 7, 2020

Every Easter morning in my hometown, a small band of musicians wanders from church to church and plays for each congregation, giving

Truth: Love

by ShethMarch 27, 2018April 7, 2020

As desperately as I want to love God, and as willing as I am to love others, when the mirror is placed

Palms and Purex

by ShethMarch 25, 2018April 7, 2020

I had skipped church this morning and was sitting at the laundromat pondering this holy day, this Palm Sunday.  (Long digression: I

Truth: Unfriendly Friends

by ShethMarch 20, 2018April 7, 2020

I have to memorize and practice my Lord’s Day presiding stuff.  I have to start researching for a paper on my liturgical

From Obligation to Opportunity

by ShethMarch 16, 2018April 7, 2020

How often do we use the phrase ‘have to…’, as in, “I have to go to class today” or “I have to

Truth: Judgment

by ShethMarch 13, 2018April 7, 2020

For someone who hates being judged by others, I find myself being very judgmental.  I make split-second decisions about others based on

Complaint Line Starts Here

by ShethMarch 11, 2018April 7, 2020

Have you ever had a really bad day?  Like, really bad, where from start to finish, everything that could possibly go wrong

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