HeyJaredWhispers and Wonders
Seeking the Divine in the ordinary, the broken, and the beautiful. For those who still believe wonder and words can hold us together when everything else falls apart.
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Nervecited (opens the original)
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Eight Years Without a Drink (opens the original)
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I have eight years without a drink today.I wasn’t going to say anything, mostly because I’m the sort of person for whom a birthday is just another day. And what is saying I haven’t had a drink in eight solid years if not a born-again day? It is certainly nothing less.I find myself alone in my house today. Melinda is out of town for work. The kids decided to go to my parents’ house for a couple of days because, well, because they wanted to, and that makes me happy.Someone has to take care of the
The End of Shame (opens the original)
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<img alt="Andrei Rublev's famous Trinity icon painting, also known as The Hospitality of Abraham, depicting three biblical angels sitting around a table with a chalice, symbolizing the Holy Trinity, divine communion, and the eternal open invitation to the heavenly wedding f
A Place to Come Back To (opens the original)
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A Place to Come Back ToWe came to Riverside on Friday, the day after I finished teaching geometry summer school.That sentence feels simple enough, but almost nothing in our life feels simple yet. Melinda had work to do. The kids had work to do. They are both taking summer classes, and Kensington had gymnastics classes to coach on Thursday night. We packed around the edges of everyone’s obligations and drove inland for the Fourth of July, still tired from a move we have not quite understood yet.W
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