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Walking Brave

Day 23: Fight the Darkness

  Rachel: birthing Benjamin Madeleine L’Engle   Fight the darkness. Fight. Let the night not rise. Push the shadows back with tearless eyes. Fight the darkness. Bright is the loving heart pierced by the sword of light, thrusting the darkness back. Let night not rise. Fight the darkness. Start the fear-filled fight. Love is the…

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Day 22 – Dancing On Fear

 Bumped from the archives to continue the theme of fear – and wow. We’re coming up on the 25th anniversary this year.     “The wall was an edifice of fear…For 28 years, East Germans could not even approach it. On Nov. 9, 1989, people danced on it — and the world looked different afterward” —…

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Day 21 – Harry Potter

One of these days I’m going to have a post about how much I love this series and how angry I am at being told it was the devil.  But since I’m only 2 books in, I’ll wait.  Maybe Satan shows up in book 3. In the meantime, here are some possibly demonic quotations that…

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Day 20 – Christians Who Are Afraid

  I’m reading Harry Potter for the first time, finally, and of course, it’s amazing.  And that fact has left me wondering just what exactly the point of being a Christian is. Because it seems to me that everything I was taught growing up in church was just a big exercise in isolationism. My faith…

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Day 19 – Self-Care Sunday

Subscribe to a few cool newsletters and find inspiration in your inbox all week long! (You can even set up filters so they go directly into a separate folder, so it doesn’t overwhelm your inbox.) Some newsletters I subscribe to: Brain Pickings Weekly In the fourth of the book’s thirteen extraordinary essays, titled “Flight,” Solnit…

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Day 18 – Songs for Saturday

Freed To Be – Matt Moberg I think it’s time I cut these strings I think my soul is ready to fly All of these doubts can’t hold these dreams The fear in me has chosen to die I am freed to be Be who I’m created to be Shame – Ciaran Lavery Would you…

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Day 16 – World Food Day

    The needs of the world are too great, the suffering and pain too extensive, the lures of the world too seductive for us to begin to change the world, unless we are changed, unless conversion of life and morals becomes our pattern.” – William Willimon   “{Cooking} connects us to nature: you’re working…

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Day 15 – Links for Mindfulness

Two great websites: Mindful Elephant Journal A couple of articles: 7 Things Mindful People Do Differently and How To Get Started The intention of being more present in our lives is continuing to grow and touch an increasing amount of people. I have friends who I never would have imagined practicing mindfulness who now sit…

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