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Caitlin Michelle Desjardins posted a blog postTo Work the Earth of My Heart: Memorizing the Sermon on the Mount
I just returned from my last final of the semester. It was…unconventional, to say the least. Instead of sitting in a wood-paneled classroom for three hours getting intimate with a blue book, I spent the last weekend sitting on a couch by a fireplace at a Mennonite retreat center in Michigan. This was my final.The idea emerged earlier this semester in a course I treasured: Greek exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount. In the small classroom, with only five of us (and a very diverse five of us, at…See More
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Lee Combs commented on Caitlin Michelle Desjardins's blog post From The Place Where We Are Right: A Thanksgiving of “Doubts and Loves”"Thank you so much for sharing this! I really love the poem...
I appreciate the nakedness the author shares...this is true freedom!"
Caitlin Michelle Desjardins posted a blog postHow Great the Darkness: A Prayer for Newtown
Oh God, how can we ever understand? This is evil wildly beyond comprehension. Are you the one allowing this? Could you have stopped it?Could we have?God, who I believe to be Merciful, who I hope to be Healing: let us know you grieve with us today. Let us feel your tears on our skin, your wailing carried on our wind. Do not, do not be silent today. Nor tomorrow. Do more than hear our screaming. Scream with us, oh God.Do not leave us alone with our questions. You said, after all, that all who…See More
Caitlin Michelle Desjardins's blog post was featuredFrom The Place Where We Are Right: A Thanksgiving of “Doubts and Loves”
The Place Where We Are Rightby Yehuda AmichaiFrom the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring.The place where we are right Is hard and trampled Like a yard.But doubts and loves Dig up the world Like a mole, a plow.And a whisper will be heard in the placeWhere the ruinedHouse once stood.[1]I am visiting my family for Thanksgiving this week. It was too convenient not to travel here, as I was only two hours away last weekend for the American…See More
Caitlin Michelle Desjardins posted a blog postFrom The Place Where We Are Right: A Thanksgiving of “Doubts and Loves”
The Place Where We Are Rightby Yehuda AmichaiFrom the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring.The place where we are right Is hard and trampled Like a yard.But doubts and loves Dig up the world Like a mole, a plow.And a whisper will be heard in the placeWhere the ruinedHouse once stood.[1]I am visiting my family for Thanksgiving this week. It was too convenient not to travel here, as I was only two hours away last weekend for the American…See More
Caitlin Michelle Desjardins liked Yaira Robinson's blog post Food Stamp Challenge: Great! And, Do I Have To?Caitlin Michelle Desjardins's blog post was featuredOn Being with Dying: A Story of Squirrels and Little Girls
At an evening party some friends of mine threw last spring, two friends came up to me and asked for my help with an infant squirrel they’d found in their yard that seemed nearly dead.I quickly followed them to the basement where they’d placed the squirrel in a box with some leaves and well-meant water. In general, I believe most baby animals do best when left on the ground, but in this case, since he had already been collected, I agreed to offer my help. Unfortunately, while I have experience…See More
Caitlin Michelle Desjardins posted a blog postOn Being with Dying: A Story of Squirrels and Little Girls
At an evening party some friends of mine threw last spring, two friends came up to me and asked for my help with an infant squirrel they’d found in their yard that seemed nearly dead.I quickly followed them to the basement where they’d placed the squirrel in a box with some leaves and well-meant water. In general, I believe most baby animals do best when left on the ground, but in this case, since he had already been collected, I agreed to offer my help. Unfortunately, while I have experience…See More
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- Mennonite
- I have attended the Parliament of Religions:
- Never
- Local Religious Community / Interfaith Affiliation:
- Fellowship of Hope Mennonite Church
- I have come to PeaceNext looking for:
- networking, interreligious exploration, intrareligious reflection
- I am inspired by:
- Monastic Communities, Children who weather much and come out stronger, Paintings, My little sister, the LGBT Community around the world, women's communities who resist corporate agriculture (specifically, Women's Alliance of Ladakh)
- My favorite spiritual places:
- Grandchamp Community (Switzerland), the labyrinth at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Elkhart, IN), any place with trees or prairie, my quiet-time chair.
- Interreligious causes I care about:
- Conversations between activist Christians and Buddhists, interfaith spiritual care,
- Changes I am working toward in my community:
- More inclusive language in congregations: gender inclusive and language that doesn't limit 'salvation' to one religion or understanding of faith.
- About Me:
- Harpist, Dreamer, Reader, Occasional Knitter, Tea Drinker, Girlfriend, Seminary Student, Walker, Nature Writer, Emerging Artist, Psalm Lover.
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Happy Birthday, Stella: When Children Die
Posted on April 23, 2013 at 2:49pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
April 18th, 2013
Today marks Stella Joy Bruner-Methven’s fourth birthday. She died last year, on October 22nd, just days after she turned 3 1/2. Although today is Stella’s birthday, she does not turn four. An egregious tumor, incurable and virtually untreatable, took this birthday from her. And before it did that, it took away almost every faculty she had: from walking, to using her arms, from singing, to even using her own voice. But Stella…
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Posted on April 23, 2013 at 2:47pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
April 18th, 2013
Today marks Stella Joy Bruner-Methven’s fourth birthday. She died last year, on October 22nd, just days after she turned 3 1/2. Although today is Stella’s birthday, she does not turn four. An egregious tumor, incurable and virtually untreatable, took this birthday from her. And before it did that, it took away almost every faculty she had: from walking, to using her arms, from singing, to even using her own voice. But Stella…
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Posted on April 23, 2013 at 2:46pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
April 18th, 2013
Today Stella Joy Bruner-Methven’s fourth birthday. She died last year, on October 22nd, just days after she turned 3 1/2. Although today is Stella’s birthday, she does not turn four. An egregious tumor, incurable and virtually untreatable, took this birthday from her. And before it did that, it took away almost every faculty she had: from walking, to using her arms, from singing, to even using her own voice. But Stella no…
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Posted on April 23, 2013 at 11:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Today marks Stella Joy Bruner-Methven’s fourth birthday. She died last year, on October 22nd, just days after she turned 3 1/2. Although today is Stella’s birthday, she does not turn four. An egregious tumor, incurable and virtually untreatable, took this birthday from her. And before it did that, it took away almost every faculty she had: from walking, to using her arms, from singing, to even using her own voice. But Stella no longer being here to celebrate her birthday angers me…
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