Lin Weeks Wilder

Lin Weeks Wilder

December 2018

A House in Haiti: A Counter-cultural Christmas Present

A House in Haiti: A Counter-cultural Christmas Present “Wow…Really? It’s all paid? Someone in Haiti will get a house?” I was dumbfounded… I had emailed Food for the Poor because the money that had been debited from my account each month had stopped. I thought there was a glitch of some kind, it never occurred […]

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Christmas: Contradiction, Paradox and Humiliation?

Christmas: Contradiction, Paradox and Humiliation? When watching the ads, listening to the music and wandering through the stores online and off, it’s easy to get duped into thinking that this is merely another excuse for a long weekend. This one special because of what we get. The words “contradiction,” “paradox,” and “humiliation,” don’t fit with

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The Strange Corollaries of Prayer and Writing

My idea of work was once restricted to the days when I worked for an institution. Only after I left that career did I broaden my concept of what it meant to me. Because I’d had a ‘career’ with an impressive title, everything else seemed like playing around, including the writing I did on vacations and weekends. Work meant getting a paycheck. Once I understood that the ‘dream’ of retirement was not one I embraced and that I needed to work, I began to broaden my definition of work to include activities that may not pay or may even cost me, if not my own money then surely, my effort.

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