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We humans are thirsty creatures, living thirsty lives. And in our knee-jerk reactions, we push our thirsts away from us while simultaneously reaching for anything and everything to somehow take the edge off of them. Or at least distract us from them.

Is it any wonder we feel anything but joyous? Is there a better hope for thirsty souls?

That’s what this blog explores.

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Recent blog posts

  • Good Friday 2025 — choose your own group, because you belong here
    Help and Hope may be on their way, but today is the day we remind ourselves of the vital importance of grieving the losses of goodness, love, justice, generosity, and humility in our personal worlds and in the world as a whole. It’s good to grieve over what is lost. Welcome to Good Friday. (this space is for you)
  • Gifts that keep giving: community and communion, especially across the distance
    One of the deeply good things that God brought out of a worldwide pandemic is the ability I now have to join my church from home. And it is especially sweet to be able to take Communion with my church family.
  • I was the lost sheep, and God sent my church to find me
    During the lockdown season at the beginning of the SARS-cov-2 pandemic, my church switched from in-person services to online gatherings. After the physical church doors reopened, this was my reflection on the impact that time had on me as the “lost sheep” — one suddenly found and reintegrated with the flock. This is my thank-you letter to a church that has no real idea how huge a gift they were giving me and how much like a church they were acting — at the very moment they felt least like a church body and least able to give.
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Hello, friend 🙂 I’m Joy: teacher, content and learning coach, person with ME/CFS, lifelong student, word-girl and lover of The Word — Storymaker Ordinaire

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