October 15, 2025
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Golden Arches, Gentle Mercies

There’s a kind of liturgy in the McDonald’s breakfast queue. The same greeting. The same menu. The same McMuffin, wrapped like a small gift of consistency. For someone who lives with autism—and the rhythms of dialysis—that sameness is not dull. It’s dignifying. Before treatment, when the body braces and the spirit steadies, a McMuffin becomes Continue reading
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Footprints Through Silence

Holding Rhythm When Grace Feels Distant Readings: Psalm 77 | 1 Maccabees 1:41–64 | Mark 14:26–42 | RB Chapter 12 Psalm 77 begins in the night. Not the gentle hush of Compline, but the aching kind—where memory stings and the psalmist’s voice cracks with longing. “Has God forgotten to be gracious?” The question isn’t rhetorical. Continue reading

