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{Day 20} Cultivating a Relationship with Your Home, Part 4

Where there is no beauty, put beauty, and you will find beauty. –Francis of Assisi, adapted. One of the books I read when I began to explore church and fa...

{Day 19} Cultivating a Relationship with Your Home, Part 3

When I think how close I came to not taking my apartment, I marvel at God’s patient persistence and the grace gift of faith. I’ve moved nearly every...

{Day 18} Cultivating a Relationship with Your Home, Part 2

I’ve always been a “I’ll do it in the morning” kind of person. Dishes stayed in the sink and on the counter until I shuffled out into th...

{Day 17} Cultivating a Relationship with Your Home, Part 1

My first place I called home after college was also called The Hedge among those in my college Christian fellowship. I’ve lived in many places and had the...

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My name is Mother Susan. I am the associate professor of Discipleship and Christian Formation at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, and associate rector at St. John’s Episcopal Church. A retreat leader and spiritual director, I write and speak about the brain and spiritual practices, prayer, Christian education, monasticism and contemplative living. My cat, Minerva, is patiently teaching me to put down my smartphone and pay attention.

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