Today we drive to the beach, for a (wet) walk and then onto a hike. The hiking path was beautiful, forested with rugged cliff views and the ocean roared down below. There came a point in the walk that we could see portions of the hike that awaited us. Not the whole thing, but pieces […]
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After just a 13 hour flight from LA, I landed in Auckland before 6:00 this morning. It was a pretty uneventful trip until I landed. Lucky me, I was tagged for a random search that required the border patrol to empty all the contents of my purse and my backpack, looking at each item, checking
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Before Sabbatical, there are months and months of:Dreaming.Planning.Decision making.Working out details.Lists, lists, and more lists.And now, it is time. As I step into this Sabbatical, I feel my heart being tugged in different directions.Sweet and sour, as Pastor Manuel would say.Both/and, in the language of our Lutheran theology. The hard parts are the goodbyes, stepping
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