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The Rules of Engagement: Family Holidays

The Rules of Engagement: Family Holidays

Leah SlawsonNovember 21, 2016Comment

Post-Election Hangover: From Mom's Morning Chair

Post-Election Hangover: From Mom's Morning Chair

Leah SlawsonNovember 10, 2016election, phylaistickle, agooftheSpirit, theGreatEmergence, protestantReformation, fear, politics, election2016Comment

Gifts for Halloween?

Gifts for Halloween?

Leah SlawsonNovember 2, 2016gifts, presidentialpolitics, jenhatmaker, LifeWay, halloween, NavalAviation, HarleyDavidson, dailyspiritblessings, thefathersbuisnessComment

Turning Compassion Inward

Turning Compassion Inward

Leah SlawsonOctober 26, 2016compassionfatigue, monastery, MudroomComment

Choosing Present and Complete

Choosing Present and Complete

Leah SlawsonOctober 9, 2016avoidance, courage, brave, boundaries, complete, wholeness, shaunaneiquist, presentoverperfectComment

Clearing Weeds

Clearing Weeds

Leah SlawsonOctober 4, 2016weeds, makingspace, creatingspace, gardening, mindful, reflection, familiesComment

Avoidance Is Attachment

Avoidance Is Attachment

BoundariesLeah SlawsonSeptember 21, 2016yoga, attachment, avoidance, mindfulness, reflectionComment

What to Give Up to Get Your Life

What to Give Up to Get Your Life

Boundaries, PrayerLeah SlawsonSeptember 6, 2016self-awareness, self-examine, soulcare, shaunaneiquist, presentoverperfect, bittersweet, coldtangerines, monastic, breadandwineComment

Airports, Labyrinths and Limitations

Airports, Labyrinths and Limitations

BoundariesLeah SlawsonAugust 20, 2016mindfulness, attention, parkerjpalmer, letyourlifespeak, labyrinth, fingerlabyrinth, limitations, fear, denial, courage, slowing, soulcare, stjohnsmtgyComment

What's in a Cup of Coffee?

What's in a Cup of Coffee?

Leah SlawsonAugust 4, 2016coffee, OldFriendFromFarAway, NatalieGoldberg, JohnOrtberg, TheLifeYou'veAlwaysWanted, families, marriageComment

24 lbs. of Journal Writing

24 lbs. of Journal Writing

Leah SlawsonJuly 22, 2016journalwriting, spiritualpractice, spiritualdiscipline, TrinityPresbyterianChurch, CreatedForAPurpose, onethousandgift, AnnevoskampComment

Celebration: After the Party

Celebration: After the Party

PrayerLeah SlawsonJuly 11, 2016celebration, marriage, engagement, community, families, friendship, shaunaneiquist, richardfoster, celebrationofdiscipline, coldtangerines, memory, reflection, anxietyComment

On White Bread

On White Bread

Leah SlawsonJuly 7, 2016tomatosandwich, whitebread, ColonialBread, Hellman'sMayonnaise, memory, foodmemiorComment

Directing the Traffic: I'll Ride with You

Directing the Traffic: I'll Ride with You

PrayerLeah SlawsonJune 21, 2016self-awareness, marriage, familydinner, food, table, AuburnUniversity, MissAlabama, sandwichgeneration, prayerComment

Living in Ordinary Time

Living in Ordinary Time

PrayerLeah SlawsonJune 9, 2016ordinarytime, SOD, SacredOrdinaryDays, labyrinth, liturgicalComment

Pentecost and Commencement Exercises

Pentecost and Commencement Exercises

Prayer, Liturgical Living/RitualsLeah SlawsonMay 24, 2016commencement, graduation, ritual, writing, Pentecost, liturgical, SacredOrdinaryDays, SweetHoneyFromTheRock, WadeInTheWaterComment

Marching Toward This Day

Marching Toward This Day

Anxiety & TraumaLeah SlawsonMay 11, 2016Comment

Stories We Tell Ourselves

Stories We Tell Ourselves

Leah SlawsonApril 28, 2016self-awareness, stories, straydogs, marriage, reflection, transformationComment

Your Slip Is Showing

Your Slip Is Showing

PrayerLeah SlawsonApril 12, 2016motherguilt, motherhood, bodyofChrist, vulnerability, pride, anxietyComment

Easter Is The New Christmas

Easter Is The New Christmas

Prayer, Liturgical Living/RitualsLeah SlawsonMarch 29, 2016Comment