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Debra Asis

Consider Your Encounters With “Other” People: everyone belongs

Consider your encounters with people of other faiths and cultures. What have you learned from them? Jim Manney

2 min read20 hours ago

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Consider Your Encounters With “Other” People: everyone belongs

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Debra Asis

This Isn’t How It Has To Be: where is your authority?

Good news — things don’t have to be this way! Find the work that God has for you and do it cheerfully, knowing that you’re part of a…

2 min read1 day ago

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This Isn’t How It Has To Be: where is your authority?

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Debra Asis

Wisdom Calls: dark to dark

Sometime in your life hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have…

2 min read2 days ago

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Wisdom Calls: dark to dark

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Debra Asis

Look Inward:where you are there I am

…the beginning of true religion cannot be in a book, or in science, or in arguing, or in listening to sermons. To look into the soul is to…

2 min read3 days ago

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Look Inward:where you are there I am

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Debra Asis

Something New Will Grow: At the edge of nothing

Notice those moments when we seem to be in contact with something or someone beyond ourselves… when these moments happen, we could say that…

2 min read4 days ago

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Something New Will Grow: At the edge of nothing

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Debra Asis

Interruptions Are Life: I wonder…..

I have come to believe that one aspect of maturity is the ability to see life’s interruptions not as interruptions but as necessary events…

2 min read5 days ago

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Interruptions Are Life: I wonder…..

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Debra Asis

The Mystery That Is God: the knot… the not knot

To speak of finding God in all things is to admit that no doctrine, no tradition and no Scripture can exhaust the mystery that is God… we…

2 min readMay 4, 2024

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The Mystery That Is God: the knot… the not knot

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Debra Asis

Talking To People: notice

The mind of the wise makes their speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to their lips. Proverb s 16.23

2 min readMay 3, 2024

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Talking To People: notice

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Debra Asis

Repentance and Forgiveness: one holy kiss

Repentance and forgiveness are freeing. The wrongdoer doesn’t have to maintain a façade of innocence. His friends don’t have to feel…

2 min readMay 2, 2024

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Repentance and Forgiveness: one holy kiss

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Debra Asis

Take Whatever Helps: Be free

To the truly humble (person) the ordinary ways and customs and habits of (people) are not a matter for conflict… To make conformity or…

2 min readMay 1, 2024

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Take Whatever Helps: Be free

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Debra Asis

Debra Asis

Noticing Ordinary Holiness along the way I aim to read the gospel of life in nature, poetry, art and every messy moment of my ordinary life.

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