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What's Not To Love About Gifts?!
Gifts! Who doesn’t love a great gift? Whether it’s prompted by a celebration, such as Valentine’s Day, or a birthday, or simply a...

Lisa McClanahan
Feb 2, 20222 min read


Who We Are Is Revealed And Formed In Community
Who we are is revealed and formed in community. What do I mean when I say community? I like to define community by breaking it into its...

Lisa McClanahan
Sep 6, 20212 min read


Hold Onto Your Hope Rope
Sometimes the world seems C.R.A.Z.Y. There is fighting and division and ugliness and anger seemingly everywhere. I feel surrounded.

Elizabeth Dotterer
Feb 1, 20212 min read


Why Can't we be friends?
Why is it, if I think something differently than you, one of us must be wrong and the other one right? Isn't that really a tactic of the...

Greater Grounds
Jul 31, 20201 min read


Are You Brave Enough to Forgive?
The Jail of Unforgiveness holds more prisoners than all the jail cells of the world combined. Kind of a scary thought, huh? But it's...

Greater Grounds
Jul 31, 20201 min read


A Path to Freedom
Every one of us is on a path to freedom. It involves walking through areas of darkness and light. No true journey to freedom is complete...

Greater Grounds
Jul 31, 20201 min read


Weed or Flower? Does it Matter?
I was out enjoying a walk around my neighborhood the other day and came across these beauties. I found myself wondering, "Is this...

Greater Grounds
Jul 31, 20201 min read


Life In Community
We are all created to do life with others, or in community. The very definition of community, comes from the definition of commune, which...

Greater Grounds
Jul 31, 20201 min read


Three Things We All Need
There are basically three things we all need! To be known. To be accepted. To belong. Do you provide these in your interactions with others?

Greater Grounds
Jul 31, 20201 min read


Just Breathe
When everything seems to be going in a different direction than what you hoped for, sometimes all you can do is breathe and stand. And...

Greater Grounds
Jul 31, 20201 min read


For All the Moms
For all the moms who know how to take all the broken pieces and make them something beautiful, simply by walking alongside their kids...

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New Beginnings and Fear
written by Elizabeth Dotterer, Artist I'm getting ready to start my first artwork series. I have 9-11"x14" pristine white panels staring...

Greater Grounds
Jul 30, 20201 min read


Commune In Unity
Community is a funny word. We use it a lot, I think, without truly knowing what it really means. The definition of commune, as a verb, is...

Greater Grounds
Jul 30, 20201 min read


How I Fight My Battles
We all have battles, challenges or fears we encounter on this journey. The question is how will we walk through them? This is how I...

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Jul 30, 20201 min read


Home
I grew up an Air Force kid. Every two years or so, we would receive new orders and would have to pack up and move to our new assignment....

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Jul 30, 20201 min read


The Dust of Heaven
Particles swirling around each other, being attracted and repelled within the Cosmos, coming together in unique and beautiful formations,...

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Jul 30, 20201 min read


No Such Thing as Random
I felt nudged to go for a walk, up on top of the adobes, in southwest Colorado, to be by myself. I slipped my hiking shoes on, grabbed...

Greater Grounds
Jul 30, 20202 min read
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