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The Solitude of Longing
The Solitude of Longing
The word long seems to pervade December. A long year is coming to a close. The longest night of the year makes our hearts anxious for the dawn. We celebrate the birth of our long-expected Jesus. We long for the crisp beginning of a new year. When Advent arrives, we long for the second coming of our Savior. Creation itself waits with eager longing for the children of God to be revealed. One of my…
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Podcast: When Christmas Hurts with Abby Ball
Podcast: When Christmas Hurts with Abby Ball
It’s here!!! Our podcast interview with Abby Ball on her new Advent devotional Contemplating Christmas: An Advent Devotional For Finding Hope in the Dark. “Part of my heart for this book is for those people who find Christmas continues to be hard. So you might not be single like I was. For you, it may be that you’re grieving. You know you have a loss and all the traditions that come with…
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Come and Feast
This month we are exploring the word feast. When feasting comes to mind we usually think about food; gathering around a festive table with friends or family celebrating a holiday, an anniversary, or just a fierce love of tacos. If you take out the implied plenitude associated with this kind of meal, you could imagine the sacrament of communion as a feast. Jesus broke bread with the disciples at…
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Podcast: How Shattered Expectations Lead to Hope with Tatyana Claytor
Podcast: How Shattered Expectations Lead to Hope with Tatyana Claytor
Native Bermudian Tatyana Claytor is a writer, academic, and mother of four. A navigator of multiple cultures and life experiences, Tatyana meets us in The Mudroom today for a discussion on how expectations shape us and our perception of God. Lean in for her extraordinary story . . . Tatyana’s most recent Mudroom piece: “How Relational Expectations Shape our Vision of…
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Podcast: Through Thorns of Belonging
Podcast: Through Thorns of Belonging
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2w0LfghO9U4DPUYuVqjrwe?si=1e1a6e1cc0d349c3 The walk on the narrow path towards belonging means scraping past a million thorny thickets. Writer and poet Prasanta Verma feels your pain. She meets us in The Mudroom after navigating the twists, turns, and pinpricks of belonging in ways few of us can imagine. Join us, today, for a way forward on the path to…
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Meet Our New Writers!
Meet Our New Writers!
We’ve been hugely blessed this year already by inviting three new writers to join our staff of monthly contributors. It’s not only a monthly writing commitment but a communal one. We want The Mudroom to be a family, writers and readers included. When we ask a woman to write for us we are asking her to bring her full and beautiful self to an audience where she will share the abundance of her…
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The Mudroom Turns 6!
The Mudroom Turns 6!
I started The Mudroom six years ago because there wasn’t enough space for everyone. The collaborative blogs at the time were filled up with “featured” writers who already had a name and a platform and a following. That meant that there were fewer places people, especially women, could submit their writing. I felt like there was no place at the “table.” I joked over the phone with my friend…
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Whatever Tomb You're In
Whatever Tomb You’re In
Based on the story of Lazarus in John chapter 11. John begins the story as the distant narrator, telling us that a certain man, Lazarus of Bethany, was ill. We, the readers, are then introduced to this man’s sister Mary, who is known for the extravagant display of anointing the feet of Jesus with oil. Lazarus has another sister, and the action in this story starts with the sisters sending for…
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February in The Mudroom
February in The Mudroom
We are exploring the virtues together this year. February’s theme will be STABILITY. Submissions are open and the deadline is February1. Click here for writer’s guidelines. “For many of us, stability is an uneasy concept; we don’t think about it much except to worry that if we remain in one place while the world changes around us we risk stagnating and becoming irrelevant. In a postmodern era of…
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Adaptation from Hurting Yet Whole by Liuan Huska Chapter 10, “A Community of Wounded Healers” We are not a few weeks post-Advent, but I am ready to repent and lament again. Call me melancholy, but Advent and Lent are my favorite seasons in the church calendar. The dark purple. The sense of yearning for what has not yet come. The plaintive songs of waiting. The reminders of our sin, our impending…
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You Being You Makes Me Need You
You Being You Makes Me Need You
You consume me,
so go ahead and ruin me.
Remove me from
old, decrepit ways of thinking that block Your Name
from gaining, training, staining, changing, rearranging
my systems of thought that You bought,
brought up with You when You…
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Embracing the Season
It’s the leaves. They’re the harbinger of autumn and they’re already dotting my green lawn red. My girl, she picked one up last week and greeted it. “You’re not welcome here!” she stated matter of factly as she deposited it into the dumpster.
It’s not that we don’t love fall, we do. Both of us. I spent 13 years aching for the rhythm of northern seasons. Every September I’d decorate the inside of…
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Inspiration is Not Cancelled
Inspiration is Not Cancelled
Editor’s Note: Words fail, we find, in these extraordinary days. We stumble to enunciate this new life with them. Often, we have no words—even for God. Twenty writers and ministry leaders (Mudroom sisters included) joined together to offer theirs. The Pandemic Prayerbook: A Pray-at-Home Guide for the Corona Crisisis a collection of 30 prayers that turn our faces upward. Join us today, as we pray…
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The Good Catastrophe And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.
Statement on Anti-Asian Racism in the Time of COVID-19
The Mudroom is staunchly and faithfully anti-racist. We use our platform to support our oppressed and marginalized brothers and sisters in their battle for existence and equity. Please consider sharing this statement and signing the petition.
Statement given by Dr. Michelle Reyes, Pastor Raymond Chang, and many Asian American leaders across the country.
We are seeking to start a movement.…
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Christa Wells Concert TONIGHT!! Singer Songwriter Christa Wells is going to bless us with a short, private concert tonight at 10:00 p.m.
Mudroom Mingle on Facebook
Some of us are finding this social distancing a bit isolating and are looking for creative ways to connect. We’ve started a Facebook group, Mudroom Mingle, as a way to engage with one another in a lighthearted way. Christa Wells is performing a short, private concert for us this Saturday night, March 27th at 10:00 pm Eastern time. Join us! Mudroom Mingle
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