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Hearts and Fists
Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. Keep loving. Keep fighting. I’ve always loved this poster/slogan, and was reminded of it today when several people shared it on Facebook. It’s...
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Leaning into Love
Today, my prayer is to remember to lean into love. The kind of love that sees us for all of who we are: that gets our need for warm and fuzzy and “I see how well you mean” and because it’s so in touch...
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My three year-old is full of drama. Though he has never seen Elvis, he does a mean impression, including a proclivity for ending any moment when he has held the attention of a “crowd” with a bow from...
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We Are Family
The Parsa Family Tree It’s February vacation week in Massachusetts and I’ve taken my two boys to visit my parents. Today we had a massive play date with four of their second cousins and all of my...
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Striving
I found myself at the local Y not once but twice today (only once to work out – long story). I love gyms but the Y in particular because of the variety of people I encounter. As I did my tedious time...
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A day of unrest
This sabbath day, one on which I actually am free of regular church duties, I am sitting with the dissonance of worlds. This week was the third in a row that brought with it anxious speculation in my...
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After the Oscars
God of all people, of every land and culture and type of body and gender and way of loving and moving and learning If we keep telling our stories, stay curious about each others’ being, open our...
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Charge to the Minister from the Installation of Claire Feingold Thoryn Follen Community Church, Lexington, MA November 17, 2013 I am so delighted to have been asked to stand with you today to offer...
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It’s Not Just A Good Idea
Christmas Eve homily, 2012 We know the story so well by now that it is easy to breeze past its power. The pregnant young woman, her older husband, a donkey, a long journey late in pregnancy. A full...
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God of Surprises
Easter Homily April 20, 2013 We know the story well enough by now, don’t we? Two days after their teacher, their friend, their brother, had been killed The women closest to him went to prepare his body...
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