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July is Disability Pride Month: Seven Invitations to Listen and Learn
Spiritual Parenting, Purpose, Predictable Patterns Melissa Marquez Weaver 6/28/24 Spiritual Parenting, Purpose, Predictable Patterns Melissa Marquez Weaver 6/28/24

July is Disability Pride Month: Seven Invitations to Listen and Learn

7 Invitations to Listen and Learn this Disability Pride Month

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Moral Injury and Ballast of Incarnation
Spiritual Parenting, Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 6/20/24 Spiritual Parenting, Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 6/20/24

Moral Injury and Ballast of Incarnation

Exploring how we hurt and how we heal in a world of unprecedented suffering.

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A Sestina For My Daughter’s Baptism
Spiritual Parenting, Predictable Patterns Melissa Marquez Weaver 5/27/24 Spiritual Parenting, Predictable Patterns Melissa Marquez Weaver 5/27/24

A Sestina For My Daughter’s Baptism

A poem to process my complicated feelings about my oldest child’s baptism.

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Mental Health Awareness Month: Resources for Kids, Youth, and Families
Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 5/18/24 Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 5/18/24

Mental Health Awareness Month: Resources for Kids, Youth, and Families

Resources I’ve found that support kids, youth and families with mental health, to share with you this May (Mental Health Awareness Month)

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Beautiful Curbs and Excellent Work
Spiritual Parenting, Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 5/3/24 Spiritual Parenting, Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 5/3/24

Beautiful Curbs and Excellent Work

On recognizing, naming, creating and encouraging good and beautiful work

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Invitations for Earth Day 2024
Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 4/18/24 Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 4/18/24

Invitations for Earth Day 2024

Eight invitations in light of Earth Day, ways we can celebrate, lament, advocate for and delight in God’s good (and wounded) world

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Holy Humor Week 2024
Melissa Marquez Weaver 4/1/24 Melissa Marquez Weaver 4/1/24

Holy Humor Week 2024

A roundup of laughs for Holy Humor Week 2024

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Resource Review: Woven by Meredith Miller
Spiritual Parenting, Predictable Patterns Melissa Marquez Weaver 3/18/24 Spiritual Parenting, Predictable Patterns Melissa Marquez Weaver 3/18/24

Resource Review: Woven by Meredith Miller

A review of Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From by Meredith Miller

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Can You Imagine?
Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 3/15/24 Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 3/15/24

Can You Imagine?

What if imagination isn’t frivolous after all?

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Ten Poems for Lent 2024
Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 2/24/24 Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 2/24/24

Ten Poems for Lent 2024

Ten poems to help you slow down, grieve, see, repent and believe this Lenten season.

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Jesus and the Wild Beasts: Lent and Good Company
Predictable Patterns, Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 2/13/24 Predictable Patterns, Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 2/13/24

Jesus and the Wild Beasts: Lent and Good Company

Reflecting on a little phrase about wild animals and what it could mean to belong to the company that Jesus kept

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Black History Month 2024 (When We’re All A Little Weary)
Spiritual Parenting, Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 1/30/24 Spiritual Parenting, Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 1/30/24

Black History Month 2024 (When We’re All A Little Weary)

5 simpler invitations to learn and grow this Black History Month

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Star Words and Soft Feet: My  guiding word for 2024
Spiritual Parenting, Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 1/13/24 Spiritual Parenting, Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 1/13/24

Star Words and Soft Feet: My guiding word for 2024

A reflection on my guiding word for 2024

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Christmas Poems to Help You Linger
Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 12/24/23 Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 12/24/23

Christmas Poems to Help You Linger

My collection of Advent/Christmas Poetry for You to Enjoy

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A Day After the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Predictable Patterns, Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 12/9/23 Predictable Patterns, Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 12/9/23

A Day After the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Thoughts on Mary when the world is thinking of her this Advent

Image from Kelly Latimore Icons

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Guest Post— On Being the Church: Receiving Nourishment
Spiritual Parenting, Predictable Patterns Melissa Marquez Weaver 12/4/23 Spiritual Parenting, Predictable Patterns Melissa Marquez Weaver 12/4/23

Guest Post— On Being the Church: Receiving Nourishment

A guest post from Tessa about how being the church has meant receiving nurture from a community of faith

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Bathroom Stalls and Glory Beams
Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 11/21/23 Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 11/21/23

Bathroom Stalls and Glory Beams

A prayer for a week that can be filled with, well, garbage.

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Shattered Glass and Better Stories
Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 10/30/23 Purpose Melissa Marquez Weaver 10/30/23

Shattered Glass and Better Stories

Reflections on the aftermath of parties and what it tells me about longing for a better story

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Breath Prayers for a Time of Troubles
Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 10/19/23 Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 10/19/23

Breath Prayers for a Time of Troubles

Breath prayers for when the troubles seem to multiply

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Keeping Home While Drowning
Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 10/10/23 Spiritual Parenting Melissa Marquez Weaver 10/10/23

Keeping Home While Drowning

How we find ways forward when it feels like the world is just too much

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