Juxtapose

Side by side we go through life. So many different ways this plays out, consider these few. Unless we choose the hermitic life, we strive to live with others. Friends, colleagues, even strangers, we go through this world side by side. If we're lucky, there's even that ONE special, other person with whom we share …

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Pivot

This word has been around a long time. So the dictionary says, it's about four hundred years old, from around 1605–15; < French pivot (noun), pivoter (v.), Old French < ? It means among other things, as a noun, a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which …

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Lyrics Post: “You Will Be Found”

Brought to you by... Ben Platt, Kristolyn Lloyd, Will Roland, Laura Dreyfuss & Original Broadway Cast Of Dear Evan Hansen Lyrics soundtrack) I don't think I've listened to this song once without having a tear or two dripping down my face... [EVAN:]Have you ever felt like nobody was there?Have you ever felt forgotten in the …

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Paschal, Wood

Easter is a curious time. As a believer I’ve often struggled to find proper respect for the Passion; I’ve found the Resurrection similarly challenging at times. The Paschal Mystery is indeed well, mysterious to me.  At different times, and different years, I've felt varying degrees of success and failure at connecting with this season. This …

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Vigil

Were You There? This African-American Spiritual, first published in 1899, it well, it digs deep at the heart of the matter: from sorrow and anguish and darkness...to...The Light. “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they …

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