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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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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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When it's over ...

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, […]

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Dear loud breather ...

Dear loud breather next to me in yoga class, Thank you … Really, I mean it …  thank you. For reminding me how much I still need to die to myself … For reminding me life is not about MY comfort, MY preferences, MY desires … For reminding me that loving my enemies can happen […]

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It doesn't have to be ...

Praying - by Mary Oliver "It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest, but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in […]

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Endlessly good ...

"God is absolutely and always present, intimately active and involved with us, and endlessly good." (Gerald May)

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Based on nothing ...

"God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing should make us secure. Were it based on anything we do, and that 'anything' were to collapse, then God's love would crumble as well. But with the God of Jesus no such thing can possibly happen. People who realize this […]

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There is no one righteous ...

Something I find myself pondering these days: Self-righteousness, in a group of people who claim to believe that the Scripture is correct when it says  "There is no one righteous; not one ..." is an especially  ugly trait. Particularly to a watching world ... It was actually one of the few sins Jesus seemed to […]

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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.

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