Stories … they’re funny things. This A Deacon’s Musing feature will share vignettes of voices that are (often) an amalgamation of experiences, contexts and people. They will frequently be monologues, which will be speaking both directly to our United Church of Canada and generally to faith communities. As with all stories, this may not have actually happened, but all stories are true. And as story-tellers know, once you hear them, they are happening to you …
Please explore the Tabs above for previous Vignettes.
Dice (March 29/13)
A Bible (January 15/15)
Chris (March 13/15)
Notre Mère (April 18/15)
Techne (July 10/15)
A Basement (September 25/15)
A Letter (October 30/15)
Silence (January 22/16)
Pen & Mirror (April 08/16)
Honour Roll (October 14/16)
Shepherd (November 25/16)
An Ant (March 03/17) A Garden (March 10/17) Gunn’s Stone (March 17/17) The Microphone (March 24/17) McCrae’s Table (March 31/17) The Cat (October 14/17) Prayer Beads (May 5/19) Lent|Vignette (The River) (April 2/20)
1988/ (May 13/20)
Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin . . . (June 21/22)
The Story of Then (June 21/22)
Vignette: Prayer Beads
You have held me in the darkest of times. Those days aren’t usually easy and being here for you, as you worry me, knead me, pass your tight fingers across each bead has been a prayer for which I was made. There have been tears trauma born, those of grief and lament, and sometimes … just because.
Vignette|Classroom
Stories … they’re funny things. This A Deacon’s Musing feature will share vignettes of voices that are (often) an amalgamation of experiences, contexts and people. They will frequently be monologues, which will be speaking
Vignette|Font
Stories … they’re funny things. This A Deacon’s Musing feature will share vignettes of voices that are (often) an amalgamation of experiences, contexts and people. They will frequently be monologues, which will be speaking
Lent|Vignette (McCrae’s Table)
A Lenten Collection Lent: We walk into the gathering danger & doubt surrounding Jesus as he made choices that led to the Cross. This is a time of preparation & reflection. Where
Lent|Vignette (The Microphone)
Insight and energy give rise to new life as we speak out and act out our own version of truth, while checking and correcting it against the truths of others. But many of us
Lent|Vignette (Gunn’s Stone)
Time moves slowly. Beneath me a life – once lived – slowly gives itself back so something else will be. Its thoughts and choices, celebrations and regrets, a memory kept by some, lost by others. Here I stand, witness and marker, as time slowly moves from then to now to then again.
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