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{Re}cite
On hard days when I don’t know what to do, I recite. The Lord’s Prayer. A poem. A hymn. A scripture. Recite means to say something from memory. The lyrics to numerous hymns, passages of scripture, entire scenes from…
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{Re}read
I signed up for a monthly email from the Carmelites after reading the Sensible Shoes series. The brothers send along Lectio Divina for each month. The Sensible Shoes series shared many spiritual practices that I was…
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{Re}theorize
Keck and I are season ticket holders to the SMU Tate Lecture Series. Tonight’s lecture featured, Lisa Randall, Harvard professor and author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. (A book not on my reading list.) She’s…
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{Re}cord
The doctor told me if I was really interested in losing weight he required that I write down everything I ate for a week. An entire week. Two years of constant stress had taken a toll on my waistline, my energy level,…
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{Re}st
The Sabbath is for you and me and everyone. But it’s just like us humans to take something that was meant for our good, our pleasure, our senses and turn it into drudgery and depression. To try to legalize it and…
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{Re}book
My heart landed in my stomach. I looked at my calendar and realized I had booked February and not March. February and March’s days of the week are exactly the same through the 28th. It was so easy to do. Of course, I…
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{Re}writing
Ernest Hemingway said in A Moveable Feast, “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” Besides the fact that I loved reading A Moveable Feast right before a trip to Paris, I have grown accustomed to the truth of what…
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{Re}action
It’s the third law of physics. For every action there’s and equal and opposite reaction. As I was thinking about this word today, I begin to think of something I’d written before. I had originally titled this post:…
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{Re}pair
There’s a beautiful Japanese art form called kintsugi. It’s centuries old and uses pure gold to repair broken pottery. This method is used to celebrate the unique history of each fracture and break. The repair and…