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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: Struggling to write ...

Hello my little group of readers. I have missed you. I have not written for awhile and that makes me feel sad and a bit paralyzed. How do you start back up? What do you say? I have been doing well, but have had some big assignments on my plate that have taken up most […]

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My favorite day ...

"What day is it?" asked Pooh. "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh.(AA Milne)

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Let my trust be in Your mercy ...

"Let my trust be in Your mercy, not in myself. Let my hope be in Your love, not in health, or strength, or ability, or my own resources." (Thomas Merton)

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With the same soft steps ...

"We are here because God - the One who wants to be completely known - has something to show us ... We do not always see that we should be moving about our days and lives and places with awe and reverence and wonder, with the same soft steps with which we enter the room  […]

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What happens to all my prayers ...

One thing I despise is simple answers to questions about prayer.  There is something that rings so false to me when people act like they have prayer and God all figured out. This is why I love writers, thinkers, dreamers who aren't afraid of mystery. Especially when it comes to prayer ... One of my […]

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Into the nonsense ...

"All the absurd little meetings, decisions, inner skirmishes that go to make up our days. It all adds up to very little, and yet it all adds up to very much. Our days are full of nonsense, and yet not, because it is precisely into the nonsense of our days that God speaks to us […]

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We are in an eternal story ...

We had a big snow last night. So big that we had no power for most of the morning ... Aside from being cold, I was amazed at how much  reading I could get in when there was literally nothing else for me to do. I came across this gem from a Wendell Berry novel: […]

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alice shirey alice at dawn blog

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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