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Month: May 2016

May 30, 2016May 30, 2016shellywhitewood

“What do you say?”

What do you say? Remember that parental prompt our parents would give us to remember to say, “thank you, ” “please,”  “excuse me,” “may I please be excused?” We do share those are phrases in our collective vernacular?  Correct? I think we have lost something in translation.  Somewhere in the invasion of “say whatever you are thinking,”  we have […]

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May 15, 2016May 15, 2016shellywhitewood

Filled with the Spirit: Confirmation Sunday

The process of letting go is never easy, especially if you love the person you are letting go. Kindergarten, high school, college, marriage, each stage is a sucker punch to the parent’s soul   All of life is really a cycle of birthing, creating, forming, and then letting go.  Think of the seasons, from the spring […]

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May 10, 2016shellywhitewood

The Prophet in the Suburbs

Can a pastor be prophetic in the suburbs? You know, the suburbs, that magical place, where everything is perfect.   Where are there are no problems – at least not real ones, not ones that matter.  Where there is no injustice – at least none that people want to recognize. I heard a sermon a few […]

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