Tag: Wheaton College

• CLARK – One of the best and worst guests in my life

  

  The first time I met Clark was in 1959. I was almost 11. Mom, Dad, Danny, and I had driven to Wheaton College for my sister Nancy’s graduation. We had a picnic lunch on the front lawn of the college, and Nancy had convinced Clark to come over to meet us. Clark had just graduated, too, […]

  Marian

  February 16, 2016

  Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

  barely on speaking terms, Clark, Clark Kornelsen, college graduation, God’s Guest List, imperfect souls, introspective music, Lent, Nancy, prayerful music, spiritual practice, Sweet hour of prayer, Wheaton College

• Let Me Introduce My Neighbors to You

  

  When I was a little girl growing up on a Wisconsin farm, I thought of four families as being our neighbors: the farmers across the road just west of us – the Henry Henderson family; the farmers who lived on the farm immediately south of us – The Mulcaheys; the farmers just east of us […]

  Marian

  February 9, 2016

  God’s Love, Jail Ministry, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Cabrini Green, Catholics, Chicago neighbors, David Mahoney, different churches, dorm living, double cousins, Dulce Maria, God’s love in action, Good Samaritan, growing up, healing, healing environment, homeless, Honduras, housing project, imigrants, inmates, jail ministry, LaSalle Street Church, Methodists, neighbor, neighboring farmers, neighboring farms, neighborly, same church, Sandburg Village, Sheriff Mahoney, Stone Meadows, Wheaton College, Wisconsin farm

• Thinking again about a very old conversation

  

  I still think about something we discussed in one of my college classes that really disturbed me at the time. Almost 50 years later, I still think about it when something triggers the thought. It happened again last week. On January 15, the hymn for the day in the daily devotional book, Near to the […]

  Marian

  January 19, 2016

  Assisted Living, Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

  Aborigine, Anton Cronk, Cleanse Me, college class, college discussion, Dr. Cronk, Dr. James Edwin Orr, Dr. Orr, Hazel, Hazel Main, J Edwin Orr, Maori, Maori Farewell Song, Maori Melody, music appreciation, musical taste, MusicNotes.com, Near to the Heart of God, Now is the hour, pairing hymn tunes, Psalm 139, reflections, Search me O God, Wheaton College, Willerup Methodist Church

• Ashamed

  I’ve never been as ashamed of my evangelical roots as I’ve been this past week. Although I am currently a Lutheran with fairly liberal leanings on social issues, nothing ever has been more important to me than loving God and loving my neighbors on earth as a demonstration of that love. As an infant, I […]

  Marian

  April 1, 2014

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  ashamed, bullying, bullying by evangelicals, evangelical bullies, evangelicals, gay marriage, God’s love, humanitarian efforts, kindness, life challenges, listening for God, love your neighbor, personnel policy, reflections, same-sex marriage, spirituality, sponsor a child, sponsor children, talking with God, Wheaton College, World Vision

• Thinking too hard

  Sometimes, I think, I think too much. I think too hard about choices as I try to determine what is best. For example,  today I’m trying to decide whether to write my blog about what some inmates said the last time we shared a worship service in the jail chapel, or to write about some […]

  Marian

  November 26, 2013

  Celebrations, God’s Love, Jail Ministry, Reflections

  Abbey, Be still and know that I am God, choosing music, Christ the King, Christ the King Sunday, Delores Dufner, different kind of king, Dr. Edman, emperor of Ethiopia, God’s love, Haile Selassie, jail ministry, listening for God, O Christ what can it mean for us, postludes, preludes, Presence of the King, reflections, second chance, serving communion, spirituality, talking with God, thankful, thankful for jail, Thanksgiving, thinking, V. Raymond Edman, Wheaton College, worship experience, worship service

• What Best Friends Talk About

  One of the nice things about living with your best friend for forty years, is that you’re comfortable with regularly sharing your thoughts with each other. Mim is an avid reader, and almost every day she tells me about something she’s reading in one of the books she has in progress. Likewise, I tell her […]

  Marian

  March 18, 2013

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  best friend, best friends, caring for the poor, diversity, friends, God’s love, Hawaii Senator, human experience, humility, Joan Chittister, life challenges, life changes, listening for God, love your neighbor, loving your neighbor, needs of the poor, new hope, nieces and nephews, Pope Francis, quadrupal diversity, reflections, Senator Hirono, spiritual beings, spiritual experience, spirituality, talking with God, Teilhard de Chardin, temporary nature of life, weariness, what lesbians talk about, Wheaton College