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Pediatric Theology

During RSV season earlier this year, I accompanied by best friend and her two little boys to the doctor’s office. The 2-month-old was going in for a regular checkup, the 2-year-old for what we thought was a severe cold, but which we discovered was RSV.

Having two babies and three adults in a room the size of a walk-in closet was a recipe for chaos. Add in immunizations, and unforeseen nasal swabs and chest x-rays, and the chaos only intensified…

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Spiritual Molting

My husband loves all critters in the Animal Kingdom, so a couple of months ago, he purchased two baby tarantulas.

Part of a tarantula’s maturation involves molting (aka, moulting). Molting is the process by which an animal sheds feathers, skin, hair, and/or its outer shell at distinct times throughout its lifespan in order to make room for new growth…

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Trust You with Our Sorrows

Several months ago in church, we sang a song with the following lyric: “We cast away our shadows, trust you with our sorrows.”

I’ve since learned the song is called “Joy” by Rend Collective. It’s quickly become a song of obsession.

Shortly after hearing this song, I read the following verse during one of my morning devotionals, “The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’” (Jeremiah 2.8, NRSV)…

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