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favorite books of 2023
It’s time for my favorite post of the year!! These are my favorite reads from 2023. I know it’s a long list, but I couldn’t seem to cut it down. Search #loconnor_faves on Instagram for reviews of these and for favorites from previous years. This was another year of amazing books! I focused on reading…
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Advent Resources
Sunday is the first day of Advent! These are some Advent books my family and/or I have enjoyed, are reading, or are TBR. We tend to cycle through and return to ones we love. Adults: Family:
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feast: a promise full, filled.
feast: a promise full, filledby Lindsay L. O’ConnorYou put this hunger in my belly,then promised me a feast.Sometimes the hunger gnawsas though it might consume meand I wonder if I will ever be satisfied.Then, I have these moments when time slows downand suddenly I see the banquet table set before me.I hear You say,“Take. Eat.…
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unedited
What would you say if you stopped editing yourself? Not in a public forum, but just alone with your Self, and maybe even with God. Part of my deconstruction has been finding the safety to stop editing myself in what I share with God. I used to be so bound up in behaving correctly and…
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rooted
RootedLife is change and all change is loss.Even gain is loss of the empty spacethat the new thing now occupies.The emptiness may have been unpleasant, but it was also familiar,and for many of us, familiarity breeds securitydue to a sense of predictabilityand control.Loss—and therefore, change—breaks us wide openas we’re confronted with the realitythat we are…
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noted.
Noted The sounds of the chickens next door remind me of a morning I woke up in Africa. There are chickens all over the world, of course, but the gentle clucks of the ones in Ilmamen, Kenya all those years ago are the ones I listened and paid attention to, soaking in every sensory detail…
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free play
Free PlayWhat would you do if you weren’t afraid? Those dear protectorsonly want to keep us safebut sometimes, they hem us in, behind and before, so our little world shrinkssmaller and smallerand we can’t see a way out anymore. Many times, what they want most in the world is to be heard, seen, acknowledged, validated.…
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a prayer for back to school
This is an excerpt of a prayer I wrote for back to school on the Arapaho UMC blog. See link to read the rest. A Prayer for Back to School By Lindsay O’Connor God of new beginnings,Be with us—students, educators, and we who love them—as a new school year begins. Bless us with awareness of…
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spill
If you took off the lidthat was sealed so tightly,I wonder what would spill out?Would the contents burst forthlike a geyser shooting up,or would something tightly coiledfinally have the room to spring,air filling the long-compressed spacesso that at last it could take upall the space it was designed to occupy?Or would it be a slow…
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children’s books for mental health awareness month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month! I keep hearing disturbing stats about the recent decline in mental health for kids, teens, and adults. Of course, there are many ways we must address this individually and collectively, but these are some really beautiful books to support children’s mental health. They cover topics such as anxiety, depression,…
Lindsay L. O'Connor
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Lindsay L. O'Connor 