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Uninvited Bedfellows

By Gail Seidel - Posted on February 18th, 2009
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I learned something this week about the meaning of  “rest” from Henri Nouwen’s book The Way of the Heart.

In his chapter on prayer Nouwen explains that the literal translation of the words “pray always” is “come to rest”. This rest has little to do with the absence of conflict or pain. Quoting Nouwen, “it is a rest in God in the midst of a very intense daily struggle.”
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The Story Keepers

By Gail Seidel - Posted on October 29th, 2008
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Like Ben the baker in the children’s video series about the first century Christians, “The Story Keepers,” we live out of our stories as a part of keeping His Story alive. Using the delivery of fresh bread to the citizens of Jerusalem as an opportunity to keep Jesus’ story alive, Ben’s family absorbed into their family children whose parents were impacted by Roman persecution of the early church.

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