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• Dear New Mom

  

  I can tell this is new for you. You have that glow of joy and uncertainty as you readjust the blanket around your tiny baby. You protect with your arms against... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hospitality – A Humble Primer

  

  Hospitality—a humble primer by RobynnA couple of weeks ago I received a kind email. A new friend at church had written honestly with some trepidation.Hi Robynn! Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Washing Cars in Wartime – A Guest Post

  

  Just two days ago ISIS released a horrific video of the death of Jordanian pilot Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh. While ISIS is known to be brutal, this death showed a new... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Like a Dead Man

  

  One day last fall I was speaking to my priest about self-centeredness and pride. In the course of our conversation, he relayed to me this story: It seems a man... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wrapping Up the Week – January 31, 2015

  

  Now Available on Kindle! Along with the massive snow storm affectionately called the Blizzard of 2015, the big news here this week is that Between Worlds –... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hospitality—a Changed Fuse, a Restored Gift

  

  by Robynn. Follow Robynn on Twitter @RobynnBliss and read the rest of her posts here! Hospitality is a dying art here in the West. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Prayers for Refugees and Loving My Neighbor

  All the world stopped for twenty four hours as Boston and the surrounding area went through what is now the famous “Blizzard of 2015. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• When I Want to Whine About Life….

  When I want to whine about life I find this: Refugee girl playing on a home-made swing outside the skeleton building where her family lives in Zakho. #IraqCrisi... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hatching Baby Sea Turtles

  

  I’m in a cocoon of snow. The entire world around me is white and cold. I am happily non-essential so there is no need to go anywhere and I am so grateful. Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Story About a Birthday in the Cold

  

  Readers – bear with me as I try fiction based on real life today! ************She realized when she woke up that her birthday was once again coming on the... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wrapping up the Week – January 24th, 2015

  

  I’m sitting on my couch looking out on a white world. Snow is falling in those big, beautiful flakes that you can easily distinguish. It’s producing white fluff... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Forget Culture Wars, It’s Chai Wars!

  

  Cultural (Chai) Wars by RobynnIt’s time to speak out. The writers and editors here at Communicating Across Boundaries have been silent on the subject for far to... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• “No One Stares Anymore!”

  “Some of the people have no color,” says one of the boys who has made it to the refugee camp. [referring to the aid workers at the camp]“That’s because they wer... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Baking Bread, Creating Home

  

  I walk into our Cambridge apartment and immediately feel a sense of panic. I know this feeling too well. It’s the feeling I get when I come home and it doesn’t... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cords of Three Strands and Fortunate People

  

  “Two are better than one.”The woman reading scripture reads the well-known passage from Ecclesiastes with a clear voice.“If two lie down together, they will kee... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wrapping up the Week – January 17, 2015

  

  I have some great reads to share with you today! These are pieces that resonated with my soul in many ways. From depression in an immigrant mom to a dying... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Free Cart

  

  by Robynn. Follow Robynn @RobynnBliss and see all her pieces here.Earlier in the week I went grocery shopping. It wasn’t that the cupboards were completely bare... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• In Praise of Tooth Fairies & Memories

  

  We have moved a lot. My oldest daughter has lived in 17 houses in 29 years of life. My husband is on his 34th or 35th house. I haven’t counted mine. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Being a Mom & Birthdays of Adult Children

  

  It’s a cold January day here in Cambridge and I wake full of memories. 23 years ago today I gave birth to our fourth child, a girl, in a hospital in Cairo,... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Courage to Begin Again – Peshawar School Reopens

  

  For 16-year-old Shahrukh Khan, who was shot in both legs while pretending to play dead in his school’s auditorium, going back was traumatic. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION