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A breath of fresh air for your mind.

Have you been prioritizing your daily to-do lists over life’s bigger picture? It can be so easy to get caught up in tasks and forget to foreground life’s mysteries once in a while. So set aside just five minutes and join me on Alice at Dawn as we ponder thought-provoking questions and navigate our complex world together.

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Featured: Please come ...

Have you ever asked any of these questions: Can I be a Christian and affirming of my LGBTQ+ friends and neighbors? Can I love my gay child and still go to church? I'm gay - What does God think about me? Where does most homophobia originate? What specific Bible verses do people use to "clobber" […]

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The original fake news ...

"The despair from comparing ourselves with others is the original fake news." (Mark Rice-Oxley - The Guardian)

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We can be reached ...

"We can all be reached all the time. There never needs to be any silence or solitude in our lives. And so we end up as good people, but as people who are not very deep: not bad, just busy; not immoral, just distracted; not lacking in soul, just preoccupied; not disdaining depth,  just never […]

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We create ourselves ...

Hello 2017! "We create ourselves by our choices." (Soren Kierkegaard)

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Slow Down ...

"These days when I lecture, I say that the two most radical things we can do in America are slow down and talk to people." (Mary Pipher, The Shelter of Each Other)

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Nonjudgmental presence ...

The practice of "nonjudgmental presence" explained beautifully here by Henri Nouwen has changed our family dynamic more than almost any other practice. Parents of adult children ... it is no longer our job to "fix" our children (it never was) ... It is no longer our job to tell our children how to live (it […]

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Clothe yourselves with compassion ...

I am hard on myself during the holidays. I am certain there are a multitude of reasons: stress, lots of "togetherness," the internal and external pressure to pull it all off, cooking, cleaning, shopping ... So this morning before my family starts to gather I sat quietly in God's presence and asked for wisdom. This […]

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A mental breath of fresh air.

There is sometimes a perception that because I have been a pastor for the past 20 years and have been counseling at least as long, that I have my whole life together.

But honestly, that’s not always the case.

I struggle with many of the same things that you do, and that’s one of the reasons I write Alice at Dawn. So that we can tackle those questions together.


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Welcome to Alice at Dawn. My short posts are meant to be regular reminders to keep walking, to keep living, to continue to listen to the voice deep within your spirit that whispers ... this is the way. Walk in it.

Please join us, and invite others ... You are very, very welcome here.

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