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Archive for January 2019

Visit Prisoners (but isn’t it easier just to collect food and clothing?)

Posted by Suzette Standring 
· Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 at 10:34 AM 
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(Webster Correctional Institution in Cheshire, CT where I volunteered.) Visiting prisoners is encouraged in the Bible, along with feeding the hungry and clothing the poor. Yet for many, it’s less scary to collect food and clothes. Comforting prisoners is listed last in Matthew 25:35-36 when Jesus said, “For I was hungry and you gave me […]

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New Year: Become, don’t just overcome

Posted by Suzette Standring 
· Friday, January 4th, 2019 at 03:51 PM 
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In 2019, I hope to “become” not to “overcome.” To me, becoming is about awareness and inner change, while overcoming feels like a grinding discipline of must and should. Yet there is so much to overcome: the polemics of news, bad habits, ongoing hurts. But recently I fasted from TV for a week, and a […]

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