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• “Do You Want to Be Healed?”

  

  In Church tradition, yesterday was the Sunday of the Paralytic. The story of Jesus healing a paralytic man is told in the Gospel of John.The healing occurred... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Comparison That Kills

  

  by RobynnI suppose there are two types of people when it comes to pain: those who exaggerate their woes and wounds and those who downplay them. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The God Who Sees and Transforms

  

  In a book titled The Ethics of Mobilities: Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment, the author tells a story of a woman who had decided to commit... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Identity with Ruth Useem – Djibouti Jones

  

  Have you ever wondered about the history of the term “Third Culture Kid?” Learn more about the woman behind the term by heading to Djibouti Jones to read the... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Choose Good

  I’m sitting here in the safety of a coffee shop. It’s almost empty at this hour and so I can think, write, and pray.I don’t want to listen to the news. The deat... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• To Carol on Her Birthday

  

  Yesterday my sister-in-law Carol celebrated her birthday in the beautiful city of Istanbul. I wasn’t there to celebrate with her, and so I wrote this instead. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Boy Behind the Speech

  

  by RobynnConnor has been chosen, by his peers, to give a ten minute speech at Manhattan High School’s commencement. The selection process was a little... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Beaver’s Whisper

  

  “They say Aslan is on the move—perhaps he has already landed,” [said Beaver]. And now a very curious thing happened. None of the children knew who Aslan was... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• To the One Who is Left Behind

  

  For Jo, and all the others who are left behind.I watched with a sinking heart as my son walked through security and down the hallway to his gate. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Marathon People

  

  In the seven years that we have lived in Boston, we have rarely missed the Boston Marathon. The one exception was two years ago when we returned from Istanbul o... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• When Nothing Else Matters but the Stars

  

  We arrived late on Friday night. We arrived after the traffic from rush hour had died down, while people were out to eat or settled in front of televisions,... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Love Story Begins At Box 25, Willow River, BC

  

  A Love Story Begins……by RobynnLowell and I are getting ready to celebrate our 21st anniversary on May 7th. Our twentieth was lost in the shuffle of death and... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Life Overseas – Offending and Mending

  

  Readers, would you join me today at A Life Overseas? I’ve retooled an old piece!Of all the difficult things we do in cross-cultural moves, finding places to liv... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thoughts on Pain, Justice, and the Tsarnaev Trial

  Just blocks from the grey, nondescript government building where I work, three thousand jurors were called on to fulfill their civic duty. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Expectations and Finding Home

  

  It was around two years ago that Rachel Pieh Jones did a series on her blog called Painting Pictures – Third Culture Kids Series. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• When Someone Takes Your Paschal Cheese

  

  Let me tell you about Paschal Cheese. Paschal cheese is a special, sweet dish that originated in Russia and made its way to the United States and I thank God... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Resilient Orthodox: Pre-Paschal Reflections on Faith

  

  It’s Saturday evening and bright, soon-to-set sunlight still shines through our windows. It is a blessed contrast from what the weather has been for the past tw... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• TCK Memes

  

  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Third-Culture-Kids-TCKsFrom Girl Gone InternationalPlease feel free to use any or all of these! I have cited those that are not... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Death Anniversary

  

  by RobynnOn April 12, 2014, our youngest daughter, Bronwynn, went bowling with her Sunday School teachers. The previous week she and I had been to a special... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cultural Competency – Tools for the Trade

  

  If you have not read the previous posts on Cultural Competency, you are welcome to take a look! Today is the last in my 3-part series on Cultural Competency.... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION