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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
From the Rector - Jody Greenwood
posted on Mar 5, 2022 In our editor's invitation for this edition of Tideline, Geneva expressed emphatically, "When we tell our stories of relationships with people and with institutions, we are also revealing our relationship with God. So please let's tell our stori...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
Making New Friends - Bates Toone
posted on Mar 5, 2022 Making new friends during Covid proved difficult, but as soon as many of the restrictions were lifted here at Plantation Village, some of the people in my building asked me if I would be willing to share my art work. So we set a time, a place in ...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
Tapestries - Luleen Anderson
posted on Mar 5, 2022 "Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by a skilled worker." Exodus 26:1 (NIV) I think of a tapestry as a metaphor for our lives and the way we wea...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
Family - Sharon Irwin
posted on Mar 5, 2022 In the spring of 2019, one of my sons became very ill. I had gone to Jacksonville, Florida, to be with him in early January and again in February. In April my daughter and I both went as he seemed to be getting worse. Finally, in late May we deci...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
All Things New - Erin Pike
posted on Mar 5, 2022 The visit to Ohio, which the thought of had once frightened me, was now one of the greatest blessings. While with family, I sat and watched them. I smiled with them. I cried with them. I played with them. I ate with them. I talked with them and l...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
Relational Love Defines COS - Carole Tallant
posted on Mar 5, 2022 As the days of the pandemic rolled on, I realized my naïve hope that we would soon return to church was not to be, and so I began searching for other ways to maintain and expand the relational love that for me is the foundation of COS. My searc...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
Lenten Changes - Mary Beth Kohler
posted on Mar 5, 2022 Every Lent for the past 4-5 years, I have "paid it forward" during Lent. Any time I go through a drive-through for coffee or whatever, I also pay for the person behind me. This year, due to many paying online, it was sometimes difficult to actual...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
Poetry and the Pandemic - Lucia Robinson
posted on Mar 5, 2022 Walter Brueggemann has a wonderful book called Finally Comes the Poet , which I bought as one who dabbles in poesy and grew up believing God handed the King James Version down to Moses on Mount Sinai. Its primary concern is preaching, which Brue...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
Ending a Relationship - Rey Smith
posted on Mar 5, 2022 When I saw the email requesting articles on "Relationships," I quickly deleted it. I'm definitely not one to share my feelings on relationships in public, let alone in writing. But when Geneva Reid stops you in the hall at church and directly ask...
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Tideline Newsletter: Reflections (September 2021)
Lessons in Kindness - Geneva Reid
posted on Mar 5, 2022 Among other lessons I learned during the pandemic was the overwhelming need for kindness. Watching the world news more than ever before, I ached in response to the universal suffering I witnessed. As a child who grew up reading Charles Dickens, ...
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