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Jodi: Along the Way Series
I met Jodi over 33 years ago. I was a freshman in college and she was my RA. Every morning, we were among the first up on our floor. We would pass each other as we each headed off to pray. It didn’t take long for us to become friends. The next year we roomed…
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Nancy: Along the Way Series
This morning I attended a Gratitude in the Great Outdoors event at Erie MetroParks. It was a short talk on gratitude followed by time to decorate our own gratitude journal and a mile walk. Melissa Price, the ED of Erie MetroParks (and one of my closest friends) led the morning. She talked about the science…
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Church in America: Stop Pointing Your Finger
Today is 5 months since our world changed. 153 days. A global pandemic. It happened so quickly, so suddenly that we are still trying to wrap our mind around what happened. Throw a little racial unrest, a recession, and an election in the midst of it and we have a recipe for chaos. Like everyone,…
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Dark Night of the Soul
I know most of the time I come across as positive and that everything is always going well. After all my blog is named “Faith In Flip Flops”! What’s happier than summer and flip flops? This is not Sunny and Happy Heidi. This is raw. This is real. This is me. I do not know…
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Missions
During college I had class 8 -12 and worked 1-9, five days a week at a drug store. I had Tuesdays and Sundays off and those days were filled with student ministry and homework. Life was full. I would get up early to pray, eat lunch after class and take a 15 minute power nap.…
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Prayer for Vermilion: Response to Psalm 122
In my last blog, I wrote about the psalms I wrote as a response to a study I had done on the Psalms of Ascent. Tonight I thought it was fitting to post the one I wrote for my city. I live on Lake Erie in a small town that has a river running through the…
