Kristen Marble
@kristenmarble.bsky.social
Parenting adult kids with my husband of 30+ years. FMC Pastor & missionary. There’s always hope.
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This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.
May 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.
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"This is not a left or right moment. It is a right or wrong moment."
-- Senator Cory Booker, today
-- Senator Cory Booker, today
April 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"This is not a left or right moment. It is a right or wrong moment."
-- Senator Cory Booker, today
-- Senator Cory Booker, today
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Sen. Corey Booker's ending to his 25+ hour speech, March 31st ---> April 1st.
April 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Sen. Corey Booker's ending to his 25+ hour speech, March 31st ---> April 1st.
Enjoying “The Comfort of Crows”. #abirdfromthelord
March 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Enjoying “The Comfort of Crows”. #abirdfromthelord
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The scripture story for this Lent Sunday is about a fox and a hen - a contrast between empire and empathy.
Are we willing to choose vulnerability?
Jesus laments because his people often choose wrongly. And now, I lament, too.
America has sided with the fox.
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Are we willing to choose vulnerability?
Jesus laments because his people often choose wrongly. And now, I lament, too.
America has sided with the fox.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Sunday Musings: Lent 2
Willing...or not?
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March 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The scripture story for this Lent Sunday is about a fox and a hen - a contrast between empire and empathy.
Are we willing to choose vulnerability?
Jesus laments because his people often choose wrongly. And now, I lament, too.
America has sided with the fox.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Are we willing to choose vulnerability?
Jesus laments because his people often choose wrongly. And now, I lament, too.
America has sided with the fox.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
This morning I sit & listen for #abirdfromthelord; I hear so many, including my persistent rooster who knows not how to tell time, but I see very few. Isn’t that how it is at times? We glimpse just the evidence. And yet their songs-even those of the rooster-continue the song of creation Aslan sings.
March 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This morning I sit & listen for #abirdfromthelord; I hear so many, including my persistent rooster who knows not how to tell time, but I see very few. Isn’t that how it is at times? We glimpse just the evidence. And yet their songs-even those of the rooster-continue the song of creation Aslan sings.
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“I was hungry” and you cut $1 Billion in funding to schools and food banks.
“I was sick” and you worked to gut medicaid, depriving me of healthcare.
“I was a stranger” and you defined my humanity by legal status.
“What ever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus
“I was sick” and you worked to gut medicaid, depriving me of healthcare.
“I was a stranger” and you defined my humanity by legal status.
“What ever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus
March 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“I was hungry” and you cut $1 Billion in funding to schools and food banks.
“I was sick” and you worked to gut medicaid, depriving me of healthcare.
“I was a stranger” and you defined my humanity by legal status.
“What ever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus
“I was sick” and you worked to gut medicaid, depriving me of healthcare.
“I was a stranger” and you defined my humanity by legal status.
“What ever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus
Several new arrivals since yesterday morning - sandhill cranes, eastern bluebirds, maybe a rock pigeon.
March 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Several new arrivals since yesterday morning - sandhill cranes, eastern bluebirds, maybe a rock pigeon.
Besides spending 10+ glorious minutes a day listening and watching for #abirdfromthelord, I’ve also been relishing in the richness of Mary Oliver poems. This one rings true today more than ever.
March 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Besides spending 10+ glorious minutes a day listening and watching for #abirdfromthelord, I’ve also been relishing in the richness of Mary Oliver poems. This one rings true today more than ever.
“Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
- excerpt from “It was Early” by Mary Oliver
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
- excerpt from “It was Early” by Mary Oliver
March 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
- excerpt from “It was Early” by Mary Oliver
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
- excerpt from “It was Early” by Mary Oliver
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The blue jays took center stage this morning singing their thoughts, their praises, their thanks.
Newcomers also showed up amongst the regulars- a yellow-rumped warbler, common grackle, white-breasted nuthatch, brown-headed cowbird and white-throated sparrow.
#abirdfromthelord
Newcomers also showed up amongst the regulars- a yellow-rumped warbler, common grackle, white-breasted nuthatch, brown-headed cowbird and white-throated sparrow.
#abirdfromthelord
March 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The blue jays took center stage this morning singing their thoughts, their praises, their thanks.
Newcomers also showed up amongst the regulars- a yellow-rumped warbler, common grackle, white-breasted nuthatch, brown-headed cowbird and white-throated sparrow.
#abirdfromthelord
Newcomers also showed up amongst the regulars- a yellow-rumped warbler, common grackle, white-breasted nuthatch, brown-headed cowbird and white-throated sparrow.
#abirdfromthelord
Today’s #abirdfromthelord visitors were all the regulars, including red-winged blackbirds. Merlin told me that red-winged blackbirds are the “Bird of the Day” which is great timing because I was thinking about them today, enjoying their morning songs.
March 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Today’s #abirdfromthelord visitors were all the regulars, including red-winged blackbirds. Merlin told me that red-winged blackbirds are the “Bird of the Day” which is great timing because I was thinking about them today, enjoying their morning songs.
I wonder if the birds take delight in their cousins’ and neighbors’ songs - distinct from their own - yet adding to the morning hours. Is it to them a melody or cacophany? Something to compete with or join in? Do they understand the songs like one might learn a 2nd or 3rd language?
#abirdfromthelord
#abirdfromthelord
March 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I wonder if the birds take delight in their cousins’ and neighbors’ songs - distinct from their own - yet adding to the morning hours. Is it to them a melody or cacophany? Something to compete with or join in? Do they understand the songs like one might learn a 2nd or 3rd language?
#abirdfromthelord
#abirdfromthelord
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Tomorrow Lent begins and I will begin my favorite Lenten spiritual practice: #aBirdFromTheLord.
It's beautifully simple: sit outside for ten minutes each day and look for birds.
Want to join in? You're invited!
It's beautifully simple: sit outside for ten minutes each day and look for birds.
Want to join in? You're invited!
March 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Tomorrow Lent begins and I will begin my favorite Lenten spiritual practice: #aBirdFromTheLord.
It's beautifully simple: sit outside for ten minutes each day and look for birds.
Want to join in? You're invited!
It's beautifully simple: sit outside for ten minutes each day and look for birds.
Want to join in? You're invited!
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More details on your invitation to join me for #aBirdFromTheLord this Lent.
Your invitation to #aBirdFromTheLord
Join me for a simple, soulful Lenten practice
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March 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
More details on your invitation to join me for #aBirdFromTheLord this Lent.
I just had to ask Siri what year it is. How’s your Monday going?!
March 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I just had to ask Siri what year it is. How’s your Monday going?!
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things." — Hans Christian Andersen
Love this. Focusing on noticing the miracles in the midst of the mess!!
Love this. Focusing on noticing the miracles in the midst of the mess!!
February 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things." — Hans Christian Andersen
Love this. Focusing on noticing the miracles in the midst of the mess!!
Love this. Focusing on noticing the miracles in the midst of the mess!!
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When we Christians are more known for our support of presidents than we are for our support of the poor, the immigrant, the marginalized, and the oppressed, that is when we know we are following someone other than Jesus and we have a lot of repenting to do.
January 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
When we Christians are more known for our support of presidents than we are for our support of the poor, the immigrant, the marginalized, and the oppressed, that is when we know we are following someone other than Jesus and we have a lot of repenting to do.
Good & important read as book #13 for the year.
January 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Good & important read as book #13 for the year.
“Imagine for a Mediterranean people how much easier it is to haul up free, fed fish in nets…to say that holiness is a fish is a statement of the abundance of grace…” Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek #grace #abundance
January 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Imagine for a Mediterranean people how much easier it is to haul up free, fed fish in nets…to say that holiness is a fish is a statement of the abundance of grace…” Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek #grace #abundance
January 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Look, in short, at practically anything-the coot’s feet, the mantis’s face, a banana, the human ear-and see that not only did the creator create everything, but that he is apt to create anything. He’ll stop at nothing.” -Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek #awe #intricacy #creation
January 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Look, in short, at practically anything-the coot’s feet, the mantis’s face, a banana, the human ear-and see that not only did the creator create everything, but that he is apt to create anything. He’ll stop at nothing.” -Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek #awe #intricacy #creation