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I feel as though I’ve lived on the edge of past—future, urban—rural, impoverished—upper middle class, faith—doubt, wounds—gifting, fundamentalism right—left, sin—dis-ease, communal—personal. Like you, each experience, person, community has enlarged my world—ever deepening and expanding my sense of both pain and wonder, of hope mingled with despair. Listening within a world diverse has moved me to start Musings of a Life from a Place In-Between. It is my hope that in a world divided we will discover anew, “reverence, “ the gift that makes being human a journey worth exploring.
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LIBA1-7 Living In the Now & Forever Now
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This Advent Story & Commentary is based upon Chapter 5, Thursday of my devotional narrative book called "The Advent of God through Mary." The setting of this story is the evening after the Magi leave Bethlehem and is based upon Matthew 2: 1-13, 6:1-4, Isaiah 9: 6,7 & Psalm 113, Story #19. In today's Story Mary & Joseph & Jesus are just about to make one major unexpected life-change; won't be the last time for this couple. It strikes me it is a story and reflection uniquely appropriate during the culmination of this Advent Season with it's celebration of the Wise Men and on the edge of Epiphany Sunday at the genesis of a new year. So enjoy, using the link belowPeople & Blogs
LIBA1-6 “Over-Shadowed"
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"Over-Shadowed" is taken from Chapter 1 "Mary's Times", Friday's Devotional centered on the emotional response of Mary to the 'overshadowing' of her body, impregnating here with the very Son of God; the moment Mary becomes the 'Mother of God'. Reflect with Terry on what this moment must have been for Mary and consider how God's shadow of Presence covers your own life experience.People & Blogs
LIBA1-5 “Bethlehem's Surrender & Ours”
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This is the third in a series of Podcast Devotionals from my book "The Advent of God Through Mary". This theme is developed more fully in Chapter 4 "Bethlehem's Surrender" and explores our human response to God's initiative of Love, inviting each of us to offer ourselves as vessels through whom God's life is fleshed out into the Story of humankind, just as the Presence of the Divine lived in and through Mary of Nazareth.Entertainment
LIBA1-4 “Mary's Treasure"
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This is the 3rd in a series of Podcast Devotionals from my book "The Advent of God Through Mary". This theme is developed more fully in Chapter 2 "Mary's Descent to Jerusalem" (Friday's Devotion) and explores our human response to God's initiative of Love; inviting each of us to offer ourselves as vessels through whom God's life is fleshed out into the Story of humankind, just as the Presence of the Divine lived in and through Mary of Nazareth.People & Blogs
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LIBA1-3 “Seeking Sanctuary in Papa's House
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This is the 2nd in a series of Podcast Devotionals from my book "The Advent of God Through Mary". This theme is developed more fully in Chapter 2 "Mary's Descent to Jerusalem" (Thursday's Devotion) and explores Mary's human response to her initial rejection by Joseph and her family when the incredulous story of her pregnancy was revealed. You and I are invited to consider her first instinct, as imagined by Terry, in going to Her 'Papa's House' - The Holy Temple - in route to her aunt Elizabeth & Uncle and Priest, Zechariah.People & Blogs
LIBA1-1 “Whirlwinds"
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This is the 1st Story & commentary on my book "The Advent of God through Mary," chapter 1, Story 1. In "Mary's Times," chapter one, we see the feel of the times into which God the Son was born as human; The human story in which the Trinity of God begins to fully taste the fruit of the Creator's love, now still-born.People & Blogs
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LIBA1-0 “One Prophecy: Two Very Different Responses"
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In this commentary of Mary's Descent into Jerusalem, I focus on Joseph and his response to God speaking, by dream...Inside this prophecy that a "virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel' is a mystery; a back story worth telling. Listen!People & Blogs
LIBA1-2 “From the Whirlwinds, Jesus Emergent" ...Advent LIBA1-4
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The Advent of God breaking into our human scene is earthy, painful, risky; A Story of God getting down and dirty, entering fully into the chaotic joy of being fully present to our stuff. The single question before us is this: Are you willing to follow Jesus of Nazareth into the chaotic joy of missional service toward justice, mercy, reconciliation? Will you beJesus?People & Blogs
Can These Dry Bones Live?
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LIB1-5 & LIB3-20 Salvation: Personal or Communal, Cross-generational Sin or Inter-Cultural Inequity?
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Salvation: Is it Personal or Communal, about Inter-generational Wounds or Inter-Cultural In-equity? In this Biblical/Theological devotion Terry walks the line of this moment in Time; Are we the sum of our identity impressions or of Someone Ancient before whom and in Whom our Heart is formed, uniquely? Based upon Jesus statement in Mark’s gospel re: The human heart and good or evil.People & Blogs
Are You Ready for Something New?
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Intro to Musings of a Paator from a Place In- BetweenPeople & Blogs
The Advent of God through Mary - Promo
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Includes reading & brief reflection on Chapter 1 “Mary’s Times”, Story 1 “Whirlwinds”People & Blogs
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Confessional Holiness
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The Advent of God Through Mary
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This Devotional is written in the firm belief that God became fully human in Jesus of Nazareth, and that the church born of Mary’s surrender in Bethlehem continues to flesh out the life of Christ in the human community. It is a human story-retold through life story of her son, Jesus. May your experience of the Advent of God on earth be renewed as you enter Mary's Story... a fictional story that seeks to know in experience the Jesus Mary must have known, through her eyes!
Two Children's Books
The 1st Christmas
The wonder of the Bible is that it tells very old stories that come alive in times far away... Like Christmas. Kids today know about Santa and elves and naughty and nice. Many know about baby Jesus. But we forget that this little baby was born very poor and became an immigrant, all as a child. And we totally forget, if we ever knew, that the Jesus Story has a Pre-story from a time earlier. This is that Pre-story from Judah in very old times, six hundred years before Jesus birth.
The Story of God's Coming...
The Sacred Tree
This is the 2nd Childrens book about God talk. Like the 1st it is focused on Jesus coming into our world but with a twist. This is one of many Native American Stories about God revealing to Tribal leaders, a Shaman, the Story of Jesus before any human tellers of the Jesus Story arrived. In time and space, it is a Pre-Story full of the wonder of a people loved and betrayed, in Jesus Name.
