From the monthly archives: April 2011

Food on Fridays: Mexican Fiesta Salad

By annkroeker On April 28, 2011 · 10 Comments

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe.

If you want, you could simply confess how many Cadbury Creme Eggs you’ve stashed in your pantry. I used [...]

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Curiosity Journal: April 27, 2011

By annkroeker On April 27, 2011 · 6 Comments

Curiosity Journal: a weekly recap of what I’ve been reading, playing and learning; what I’m reacting to and writing.

Inspired by Monica of Paper Bridges, I’m occasionally recording a Curiosity Journal…or am I recording an occasional Curiosity Journal? Tag words are: reading, playing, learning, reacting…and writing.
Reading: One of my [...]

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Cause for Celebration

By annkroeker On April 24, 2011 · 7 Comments

My Slow-Down Fast didn’t wrap up quite how I expected.

I imagined creating quiet moments of contemplation leading up to Easter, and in a way I did enjoy more moments of interaction with the Lord, but not necessarily in long stretches of quiet solitude. I haven’t had a lot [...]

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Food on Fridays: Maundy Thursday Matzo

By annkroeker On April 22, 2011 · 11 Comments

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe.

If you want, you could simply count up the number of eggs you’ve colored for Easter and report on [...]

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The Empty Egg

By annkroeker On April 20, 2011 · 3 Comments

On Easter morning one year, we arranged for our son to open the last plastic egg, but he refused.

Several years ago, we bought a pack of twelve plastic “Resurrection Eggs” filled with various symbols representing key moments in the Easter story. We worried the eggs could be a little cheesy, but [...]

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Palm Sunday

By annkroeker On April 18, 2011 · 3 Comments

This Sunday my nine-year-old son joined the procession of children who waved palms and wove through the sanctuary as the rest of us sang “All Glory, Laud and Honor.”

Holy Week has begun, beginning with sweet hosannas of Palm Sunday and concluding  with joyful alleluias of Easter morning.

Now, however, we [...]

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Slow-Down Fast: The Rooster

By annkroeker On April 17, 2011 · 3 Comments

These final days leading up to Easter, we’ve continued to open the Easter Story Eggs and read the related passages from the Gospels.

This week in our reading, we came across another critical moment in [...]

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Food on Fridays: Europe Comes to America

By annkroeker On April 14, 2011 · 19 Comments

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe.

If you want, you could simply tell us how many M&Ms you would eat if left alone with nobody [...]

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Crossing Cultures

By annkroeker On April 13, 2011 · 9 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article at TheHighCalling.org about discovering I was a foreigner.

This week, we decided to launch a community writing project inviting others to tell their own stories of crossing cultures.  I wrote the introductory post, which begins:

My parents tell me I was [...]

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Vacate

By annkroeker On April 11, 2011 · 13 Comments

From Prayer, by Philip Yancey:

“Be still and know that I am God”: the Latin imperative for “be still” is vacate. As Simon Tugwell explains, “God invites us to take a holiday [vacation], to stop being God for a while, and let him be God…God is inviting us to [...]

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