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Not to Condemn

On April 14, 2019April 14, 2019 By RosinaIn Hearing God, Inner Life5 Comments

My stomach growled with hunger and my feet hurt from a busy twelve-hour shift, but I resisted the urge to go home and collapse. Instead I crept into the soft glow of the sanctuary at the Methodist church a few blocks from work. It was Ash Wednesday, and I remembered how the service last year …

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Justice or Revenge?

On October 26, 2018 By RosinaIn Inner Life41 Comments

This is the story of one of my friends. Due to the sensitive nature of this story, I am publishing it anonymously for her. The experience of sexual abuse and the church's failure to protect is sickeningly common. What are we doing to bring about redemptive change? While working for that change, are we motivated …

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Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Me

On May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 By RosinaIn Family and Friends, Inner Life12 Comments

1. I once licked a pig's snout to earn $2.50. When my (then) future mother-in-law found that out, she said she always did want frugal wives for her sons. 2. I didn't get along with my 7th grade teacher, and I'm not even sure why. He was a very good teacher and I learned a …

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I laid my burden down

On December 3, 2017December 5, 2017 By RosinaIn Hearing God, Inner Life12 Comments

I didn't know what to do with the mess of attempted reconciliation going horribly awry. This time, I had cared too much about the relationship to indulge in my usual self-protection. I will run into the roar, I had thought, instead of hiding under my bush and withering away. I might get mauled, but then …

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