Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Kathleen Norris https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Advent Day 20: She Makes Oranges https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-20-makes-oranges/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-20-makes-oranges/#comments Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:27:41 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6315 The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. —Kathleen Norris In Phil Needham’s book When God Becomes Small, he shares the following… I love […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-20-makes-oranges/feed/ 0 Advent Day 9: Grace Takes Us To Unexpected Places https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-9-grace-takes-us-unexpected-places/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-9-grace-takes-us-unexpected-places/#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:23:03 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6265 *picture above: a statue of Mary in a church we visited this summer in Narni (an ancient hilltop village in the Umbrian region of Italy) And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he took notice of his lowly servant girl, and now generation after generation forever shall […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-9-grace-takes-us-unexpected-places/feed/ 1 The Attraction Of Small Graces & Specific Kindnesses https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/attraction-small-graces-specific-kindnesses/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/attraction-small-graces-specific-kindnesses/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:00:53 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4998 In Phil Needham’s book When God Becomes Small, he shares the following… I love the story Kathleen Norris tells about her three-year old niece. The girl’s father would drive her to day care in the morning on the way to work, and her mother would pick her up on the way home. Often the mother […]

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