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Sunday Mourning (A Letter to Religious Prodigals and Church Orphans)
The calendar can be cruel sometimes.
There is a rhythm to our lives; a muscle memory that develops over time as we live and develop patterns of being. The consistencies in our schedule become stabilizing beams that help us feel secure and safe when everything around us seems uncertain: meals with our families, nighttime routines with our children, daily early morning rituals, weekly meetings with a group of friends, yearly holiday gatherings.
We rely on this regularity to give us some feeling of comfort or control in the ever-present chaos, and when we lose those anchoring moments, we can…
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