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Don’t Worry

30. Don’t Worry – July 18 It’s not easy to not worry but some years ago I wrote a very short song and the words went like this: I am held in prayer time, Circled round by love. God’s words are clear, Speak to my heart, Don’t worry,...
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Be Still

29. Be Still I recently saw an advertisement for a pendant. The quote on it was attributed to Thich Nhat Hanh and it said, “Be still and know.” Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.” This Buddhist monk from Vietnam reduces it to: Be...
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Trapped in a Box

28. Trapped in a box A friend of mine, Will Albertus, is a pastoral counselor and is also a woodworker. One time he gave me a gift that he created after seeing a similar cartoon. You’ll have to try to visualize it. It’s the shape of a small...
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The Fuzzy Line of Reality

27. The Fuzzy Line of Reality Today I want to tell a story about my puppet Josa. When I participated in Clown Ministry I got this brown, sea otter, who I named Josa, and consequently I had numerous adventures with her. This is one of them: A daycare...
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Prayer and Time

26. Prayer and Time When I went into Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for a second surgery, I had asked my children to pray and to imagine me wrapped in a yellow blanket. My youngest daughter asked what time my surgery was and I told her it was scheduled...
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I Can Unlearn

25. I Can Unlearn I have discovered that I can unlearn things. There are brand new things you learn that are like light bulbs suddenly lighting and you say “A-ha!” And there is also an “A-ha!” effect when something you thought you had learned gets turned upside down...
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Saying Grace

24. Saying Grace Years ago when my grandson Zack was four, I went with him and his mother, Dara, and their dog, Holly, on a tent camping vacation together.  During our stay in Boone, North Carolina, old friends John and Betty Johannaber drove up from Atlanta and stayed...
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Je Suis

23. Je suis In the early seventies, I attended the Dalcroze School of Music in New York City for one or two years. This was a music method developed by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze that connects music, movement, mind, and body. One of the most powerful exercises we did was...
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Absolutes Often Wrong

22. Absolutes often wrong When my four children were young (four within six years), they often came to me with always, and everyone, and never. You always let him do that and not me. Everyone has that toy except me. I never get to go. I would carefully...
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Energy Power of Music

21. Energy Power of music When I met my second cousin Paula after a number of years of being out of contact with her, one of the stories she told me was of the house she grew up in as one of eight children. She said that the...
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Daybook of Personal Faith

daybook of personal faith

Daybook of my personal Faith is written for everyday of the year, with chants, songs, mandalas to color, poems, stories, prayers, and reflections.

Mama and Me

Mama and Me

Mama and Me---Our last three years together and beyond is a book about a relationship, built over 50 years and culminating in Mama’s death.

Graces To Sing

Graces To Sing

Graces To Sing to Tunes You Know is filled with familiar tunes with new words to celebrate times with family and friends, good food and thanks.

Trilogy of Cancer

Trilogy of Cancer

Ann's story of her cancer journey...filled with stories, poems, songs. You will laugh, cry....

Shadorma’s

Shadorma’s

This is a book that puts each of the 150 psalms in the psalter into a shadorma poetry form. Some of the longer psalms have several shadormas.

Women Songs | Peace Songs

Women Songs | Peace Songs

Woman Songs|Peace Songs is a collection of inspirational and powerful music still speaking to our times. Originally recorded in 1980.

Wisdom of Children

Wisdom of Children

Wisdom of Children is a collection of stories of the Grandchildren in Ann's life, their wisdom and her reflections for God.

Do You Love Me

Do You Love Me

Do You Love Me is a wonderful children's book. A conversation between a Grandmother and Grandson.

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