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  Thursday 24 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 7:36-50 Hospitality 101 Home Sweet Home It’s now been just about a year since we moved into our new home; in fact, someone just remarked that it still has the new home smell!   And it reminded me of the hectic nature of our condensed time frame last summer when I would shuttle back and forth to Chicago in a frantic effort to sort through 40 years of ‘stuff’ and deciding what to toss, what to donate, and what to pack up for the move to Tennessee.   But it wasn’t just about closing up our Dakin home!   It was also about making our new home warm and comfortable, inviting and welcoming!   We put so much effort into picking out the right floor plan, the best arrangement of new furniture and decorations, everything to make our new home feel like home.   But not just for us!   There had to be room for visitors, for overnight guests, for family and friends!   It had to be open and relaxing, a p...
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  Wednesday – 24 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 7:31-35 My Way or the Highway Tennessee Home We took a quick trip to Nashville last week for some medical appointments, our first experience of Music City!     And it was a good reminder for me of how much I have been depending on my “Google lady” to get me pretty much anywhere this past year.   New home, new state, definitely new terrain!   Gone are the dependable grid patterns of Chicago streets and the flat expanse of Illinois.   Mountains and valleys and hairpin curves of country roads are the new normal!   Don’t get me wrong; I do enjoy the experience.   But driving in a brand-new city can be quite a bit unnerving, especially for me.   Too often, I think I can get to our destination quicker.   I think I know a better way.   I prefer to listen to my own voice, my own thoughts.   I know what’s best and I have all the answers!   But I am learning to adjust ...
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  Tuesday – 24 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 7:11-17 Compassion Children’s Monument, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial’ The photo I included today is from Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.   The Children’s Monument displays a number of concrete columns to represent all the children who were killed during WWII, children whose lives were cut short like those broken columns! I feel your pain!!!   I wonder how often we have voiced those words!   Maybe a loved one received bad news on their medical tests.   Maybe a dear friend just lost their mom.   Maybe it was the violent deaths of 2 little grade school children in Minnesota or that of Charlie Kirk in Utah or that of Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman or the high school students injured in Denver!   When will it all end?   Why?   Make it stop!   For the sake of our children and their future, make it stop!   We all speak those words in moments of pain a...
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