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How do you wish to be healed?

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

We regularly (and willingly) expose ourselves to verbal (and sometimes physical) assault every day.  If you are a sports fan or player, the field is fraught with hits and emotional highs and lows.  Winners ride the wave of victory, losers retire to lick their wounds with analysis of what went wrong with this or that play.  Injured players visit their physical therapists for treatment. 

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Prayer: A mysterious essential

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

Prayer:  A gift.  A blessing.  The essential practice that is often squeezed out by our individual and corporate sense of priorities. (Although I encounter it less frequently than in the past, I still witness some church committees or  boards that resist devotional time because they are there to "get things done").  I won't go into all of the obstacles that folks present when talking about their prayer life.  I will simply make this statement: 

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December 27, 2011

Got Drama?

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

What can we learn from the Holy Family about the way things work?
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December 23, 2011

Last Minute Opportunity

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

Will today's last minute challenges become last minute opportunities?
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November 29, 2011

Why do we do this?

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

Have you noticed that Advent is countercultural? Why do we do this, anyway?
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November 11, 2011

Encourage One Another

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

It is time! Whatever is stirring, whatever is about to be born, we don't need to be in labor in isolation.
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September 26, 2011

Finding our direction

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

I find it. I lose it. I seek it. I find it. (again, and again and again!)
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September 07, 2011

The Binding Force of Grudges

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

How does the process of forgiveness unfold? What gets in the way of the process? When does an inability to forgive sprout from our choice to hold a grudge? The more we hang on to a grudge the more it holds on to us and everything we do, think or say.
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August 19, 2011

Boasting and brooding

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

Whether plans soar or balloons fall like lead, Christ's power has the final say.
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July 23, 2011

Irritating Treasures

Pamela Czarnota (ELCA)

Pearls are formed where an irritant has entered the mollusk's inner space. Can the places or people who prick and annoy us be the beginning of "pearls of great value"?