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Guest post by Lore Ferguson who writes over at Unskewed

January –While sorting through some things, I found a former roommate’s jacket and began to think about how each of the people in my life have left a piece of them with me. I am shaped by them.
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/01/we-shared-space.html

February –We’re told to love not the things of this world, but Richard Wilburs poem “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” is always a poignant reminder of the fact that we’re here and we’re built to love–why live in the negative when we can embrace the positive?
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/02/from-my-sent-box-and-if-contentment-is.html

March –I live in a cold place and winters feel longer by the knowledge that others are experiencing spring, while we’re still stuck with winters dreary leftovers. This post was inspired by a desire to LOOK for spring, not just wait for it to happen.
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/03/i-practice-my-spanish-grammar-rolling.html

April — It’s easy to think it always rains where only we stand–a constant deluge of rain on my parade of one.
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/04/its-easy-to-think-it-always-rains-where.html

May –A day of earth-play teaches me lessons of an eternal sort.
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/05/dictionary-of-garden-lessons-today-ive.html

June –What is my measure? What size cup and am holding out for an overflowing promise? What is my expectation?
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/06/this-morning-i-think-of-lame-man-who.html

July –Because peace sounds simple, clean, free of chaos, I assume that peace slips quietly in, like a latecomer to a wedding. But the Bible calls it work. Work?
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/07/gulls-fly-en-masse-swarm-of-white-and.html

August –Hope Suspended, held taunt between today’s unbending reality and tomorrow’s nebulous future, makes the heart grow sick. Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief!
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/08/i-grasp-for-tenor-of-my-heart-fingering.html

September –A story of a kept girl. Of a God who neither slumbers nor sleeps, but keeps. And we too are kept.
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/09/autumn-brings-with-her-torrent-of.html

October –Wrestling with our weaknesses is really just wrestling with the God who created us to need Him.
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/10/i-wont-let-go-until-you-bless-me.html

November –Glory in the paradox. Glory in the frustration. Glory in the pain. Glory in the middle and glory in the end too. Glory in brokenness and glory when, at long last, all the promises are Yes and Amen.
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/11/its-blustery-autumn-day-outside.html

December 2008–For all the lauding of mystery we do, and all the complaining of an invisible God we offer, there’s something to be said for the dim glass we’re seeing through for now.
http://lore.unskewed.com/2008/12/doubt-is-normal-we-are-told-confusion.html

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Lore is a person. Just a small person living a small life in upstate New York. She writes here, mostly in first person, but occasionally, for brief bios such as these, in the third person.

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