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  • When Music Breaks Your Heart {open}
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    When Music Breaks Your Heart {open}

    ByJody Lee Collins March 6, 2020January 27, 2026

    Several years ago I was glancing out the window in my study when a Facebook message popped up with a link to Gabriel’s Oboe, a composition by Ennio Morricone from The Mission movie soundtrack. I’d seen the film years before but did not remember this particular piece. It is simple strings and gentle notes from…

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  • How to Lent-Spiritual Practice for the Rest of Us
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    How to Lent-Spiritual Practice for the Rest of Us

    ByJody Lee Collins February 22, 2020January 27, 2026

    The city of New Orleans has a singular reputation for laissez les bon temps rouler (“let the good times roll”) no matter what time of year. During Mardi Gras, though, the celebrations take on an over-the-top frenzy that is hard to match. We lived in New Orleans in the 1970’s and saw this dress-up carnival…

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  • Seven Books for the Seasons
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    Seven Books for the Seasons

    ByJody Lee Collins January 31, 2020January 27, 2026

    Did you know that woodchucks (aka the groundhog) and Jesus’ birthday have something in common? On the church calendar, February 2nd is Candlemas, the last Feast Day in the Christian year dated in reference to Christmas. This celebration of Candlemas marks the presentation of Jesus in the Temple 40 days after his birth (as Jewish…

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  • When God’s Word Goes Haywire {Operator Error}
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    When God’s Word Goes Haywire {Operator Error}

    ByJody Lee Collins November 12, 2018January 27, 2026

    You know how it is when you’re clicking around online and you visit a website link looking for information and up pops that 404 Error message? I was stuck in a rabbit hole kind of like that recently, stewing for weeks over an issue (always the battleground for me, the ol’ noggin) and could not seem…

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  • Five Questions for…Sophfronia Scott
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    Five Questions for…Sophfronia Scott

    ByJody Lee Collins June 9, 2018January 27, 2026

    I met Sophfronia Scott at the Festival of Faith and Writing in Grand Rapids April 2018.  I’d admired her writing work from afar, particularly an essay in Ruminate magazine about dancing in her kitchen. I knew she’d be speaking at the Festival and scanned the meeting places, looking for her beautiful dreadlocks and beaming smile. I…

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  • Five Questions for…Deidra Riggs
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    Five Questions for…Deidra Riggs

    ByJody Lee Collins June 1, 2018January 27, 2026

    I began following Deidra Riggs online way back in 2012; I enjoyed her honesty, her wisdom and her down-to-earth take on spiritual issues. We finally met in person at the 2014 Faith and Culture Writer’s Conference in Oregon and we’ve continued the conversation on and off line since. I so appreciate her voice in the…

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  • Aging With Grace–40 Women Over 40 Tell All
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    Aging With Grace–40 Women Over 40 Tell All

    ByJody Lee Collins April 30, 2018January 27, 2026

    Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. Isaiah 46:4 NIV Two weeks ago I took my first ever trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to attend the…

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  • How I Became a Twitter Convert and Kept My Sanity
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    How I Became a Twitter Convert and Kept My Sanity

    ByJody Lee Collins April 20, 2018January 27, 2026

    I am still basking in the afterglow of a rich and rewarding five days at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College in Michigan. (Thank you, Grand Rapids, snow and all.)  I am exhausted and beyond tired. My brain is packed, my spirit is full to overflowing and my body has been existing…

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  • Worry & Wonder–Holy Week
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    Worry & Wonder–Holy Week

    ByJody Lee Collins March 28, 2018January 27, 2026

    “Only in those moments of vivid experience that made her come alive was she at home in her own country.”    –Marianne in Green Dolphin Country, Elizabeth Goudge, Hodder & Stoughton, 1944 Friend T and I were chatting on Instagram the other day about my favorite author (see above). There’s no writer I can recall…

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  • Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Is That the Right Question?
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    Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Is That the Right Question?

    ByJody Lee Collins March 15, 2018January 27, 2026

    “Harbor me in the eye of the storm I’m holding on to the love you swore.”  -John Mark McMillan, Love You Swore The other day on Instagram I asked: “How is it we never wonder why good things happen to good people? Or why good things happen to bad people?” My reflections were a version…

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