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how pilgrims suffer

April 22, 2019April 20, 2019 wally mettsLeave a comment

Sometimes we cry out in our pain and the answer we get is silence. What to do then?

Posted in Nepal, pilgrimage, psalmsTagged psalms of ascent, trekking

a word or triumph

April 20, 2019 wally mettsLeave a comment

For my good, and yours, he chose this death.

Posted in faith, lent, poetryTagged cross, luke 23, sonnet

4 ancient strategies of persuasion

April 18, 2019April 17, 2019 wally metts1 Comment

How do we say difficult things to difficult people?

Posted in communication, commentaryTagged social media, grace, wisdom, duel, persuasion, rhetoric, alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, incivility, Christine Porath, Weber Shandwick

how pilgrims persevere

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 wally mettsLeave a comment

Even the kindest believer sometimes thinks "enough is enough." They have been kicking us around long enough.

Posted in Nepal, pilgrimage, psalmsTagged psalm 129, psalms of ascent, trekking

a word of rest

April 14, 2019 wally metts3 Comments

From a sonnet cycle on the seven sayings of the cross. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet… Continue reading a word of rest →

Posted in lent, poetryTagged seven sayings of the cross

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