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When I got up this morning and made my coffee, there was a bright blanket of mist that lay over the hidden river beyond the band of trees at the far side of the field behind our house. The mist bled over the band of trees to cover also the field. This had lifted by…

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I sit in my living room this May morning drinking my coffee and slowly coming awake. My gaze is drawn to the crystal-clear day, one of those days you dream about when it is cold and blustery and overcast. Not this morning. The sun is behind me as I sit on the living room sofa…

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“Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19) We Americans are not a particularly pondering people. We like action. We run here and there, doing things. We get nervous when we have to sit still. Something going all the time. We count success by the stuff we have been able…

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The mantel clock that I rescued from a flea market hums and rattles quietly over the fireplace. Last year it sat forlornly on a jumbled counter among other flotsam. Its wooden casing looked like it had a skin disease, with its finish all cracked and peeling. Its face and inside works dangled collapsed inside. Its…

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