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• Praying Honestly
• A Prayer at 3 a.m.
• Prayer for Sleepless Nights
• Owl's Morning Prayer
• A Psalm of Hope
• A Sacred Search
• Awaken at Peace:
  a calming hum
• A St. Francis Psalm
• A Psalm of Praise
• An Impatient Prayer
• Little Things
• Rejoicing in the Night
• A Cry from the Heart: in Mourning
• For Military Families
• A Soldier's Prayer
• On Memorial Day
• A Battle Cry
• Remembering September 11
• Present to the Moment
• Natural Praise
• For a Fresh Start
• Health Challenges
• The Diagnosis
• When God is Silent
• Lighted Darkness
• A Love Letter
• Medical Adventures
• A Psalm of Joy
• Finding Hope
• The Process of Healing
• The Choice (on abortion)
• Magnificent Darkness
• For Good Mothers and Others
• Caregiver's Prayer
• For Those Who Mourn
• In a Difficult Time
• Transition Song
• Releasing Prayer
• Letting Go ~ Exorcism
• In Time of Chaos
• When the End is a Blessing
• Light in the Darkness
• In Dark Times
• The 23rd Psalm
• Lost Sheep's Prayer
• God Will Protect
• For the Gift of the Earth
• The Lesson in Garden
• A Prayer for Defense
• House Blessing
• God Our Refuge
• Saint Patrick's Shielding Prayer
• A Dog's Psalm of Praise
• God Our Guardian
• Praise and Remember
• A Cry for Help
• Shielding Prayer
• Centering Prayer
• Prayer of the Afflicted
• A Doubter's Prayer
• In a Low Place
• What Might Yet Be
• The Beauty of Creation
• Hannah's Song
• Unanswered Prayer
• For Patience
• For Protection
• For Courage
• On the Passing of a beloved pet cat
• On the Passing of a beloved pet dog
• For Strength
• For a Quiet Mind
• Against Temptation
• For Clear Vision
• On Divorce
• Stations of the Cross
• Invitation to Confession
• Prayer of Confession
• New Beginnings
• A Visit from St. Brigid
• Coping with
  the Christmas Season
• For Christmas Shopping

• Something Happened
• About Christian Faith
  • On Christianity
  • Jesus and Paul
  • Saints & Sinners
• Lord's Prayer
• Is it well with your Soul?
• Oh, That Prayer
• A Tender Yearning for God
• Real Vampires
• Bury the Dead
• Haunting Habits
• Looking for Jesus
• Confessing Christ
• Sabbath Remembrance
• The Good Old Days
• Ultimate Salvation
• The Betrayal of Christ
• Coming to Terms
      with God
• Persisting in Prayer
• True Faith
• Snake Handling
• Love Your Enemies?
• Facing Danger
  Living with Courage
• Who is Your Family?
• Better to Cut it Off
• Spiritual Abuse
• Saints
• Sinners
• Dogs & Sinners
• The Power of Stuff
• St. Francis of Assisi
• Shining Lights
• A Little Child
• On True Friendship
• Who's a Sheep?
• Seeing God
• Dreams
• A Divine Love Song
• Healing
  • More About Healing
  • Resisting Healing
• Taking Action
• Forgiveness
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• About Prayer, Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6

• About Theology
• The Caterpillar
• Holy Communion
• God the Father
• Like a Little Child
• Jesus Meek & Mild?
• The Prodigal Son
• Changing God's Mind
• Extraordinary Experiences
• A Divine Love Song
• Prosecuting Attorney
      Job
• Taking our Work Seriously
• Psychedelic Theology?
• Healing Presence
• Wisdom: the Feminine Face of God
• Wisdom's Song of Creation
• The Law
• About "Those Jews"
• The Good Shepherd
• Sheep & Shepherds
• Gospels as History
• Jeremiah: a Man on Fire
• Out of Eden
• Judas the Bad Guy
• On Repentance
• Hell & Salvation
• Jesus in Hell
• The Book of Revelation
• Mary, the Mother of the Lord
• The Virgin of Guadalupe
• On Riches
• Creeds & Confessions
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• The Warning to Sodom
• The Ten Commandments
• On Winning
• Being Generous with God
• Heaven
  and Human Concerns

• Overview
• About Rev. Deborah
• Spiritual Direction
• A Contemporary Creed
• A Modern Methodist
• Saint Brigid
• New Methodist Conference
• Prayer Requests

• Current reflection
• Give to Caesar
• Speaking a New Language
• The Glorious & the Grim
• Massacre of the Innocents
• Delighting in Life
• The First Resurrection Day
• On That Morning ~ Easter
• A Contemporary Concern: Outrage
• In the Middle
  visions in Revelation
• All of those Names
    Reading the Bible
• This is Good News?
• A Heavenly Light
• The Donkey's Christmas Tale
• Mary: A Pregnant Young woman
• An Odd Beginning to Advent
• For Veterans Every Day
• Lazarus Tells His Story
• The Forgotten Sacrament?
• A Reliable Pattern
• Choices
• A Spiritual Reorientation
• Can These Bones Live?
• The Last Words
• Something Happened
• Doubting Peter
• The Celestial Ox & Zachariah's Silence
• The Revelation at Capernaum
• "He's coming after me!"
• A Changed Viewpoint
• A Christmas Dog Tale
• No Cause for Celebration?
• Advent begins
• Thanksgiving 2020
• Light & Heat
• Think!
• Noisy Neighbors
• Unlikely Heroes
• "Civil Religion"
• The Light and the Dark
• The Key to Christ's Teachings
• The Disciples in Quarantine
• Healing Restored
• Beyond the 23rd Psalm
• A Journey Toward Understanding
• A Virtual Life
• A Challenging Easter
• Psalm 20
• Warned by the Prophets
• What Shall We Do?
• In Complicated Times
• Nicodemus' Night-time Visit
• A Tale of Hero Worship
• Ash Wednesday
• The Year of the Rat
• Valentine Warning
• A Good Baby
• Quieting Down
• The Big Question:Heaven
• The Magi Return
• When Jesus was Baptized
• Finding the King
• New / Old Resolutions
• A Christmas Tail
• The Weirdo on the Riverbank
• Prepare for Christmas
• Christian Witness
• For Military Veterans
• Jesus in Jericho
• Father: the Forgotten Man
• The Wedding at Cana
• The Power of Dreams
• Fire & Smoke & Ashes
• Jacob's Opponent
• The Mulberry Tree
• Celebrating St. Francis
• Real, Live? Vampires
• Abandon Sheep?
• A Trap for Jesus
• Shouting at God
• That Prayer (The Lord's Prayer, revisited)
• All Kinds of Greed
• Them!
• Chill, dear Martha
• Wisdom Sings
• Living Among the Tombs
• The Experience of Pentecost
• A Powerful Act
• “Stuff” Happens
• Does it bring joy?
• Transfiguation
• A Simple Teaching
• All Were Healed