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Rachel Donahue replied to the topic Listing Poems in the forum Week 2 – Deepening the Life of Prayer 1 year, 5 months ago
These images are so vivid! I love the surprise of “unstacked” after “a stone wall.” “The arms where a child rests” and “hands cupped to receive” are just beautiful.
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Rachel Donahue replied to the topic Listing Poems in the forum Week 2 – Deepening the Life of Prayer 1 year, 5 months ago
As a homeschooling mom, my images are more of the mundane. I tried to think of all the places and ways I pray that also show something of what prayer is.
Aimless wandering beneath the trees;
Folding clothes, or pulling weeds;
Breathing deep; crying out;
Declaring faith, and whispering doubt;
Taking someone by the hand;
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Hard Conversations and the Power of Belief 1 year, 5 months ago
You are a treasure, Bailey. Thank you for this.
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Rachel Donahue replied to the topic A season of slowness in the forum Shriven, Ashed, and Ready for Action: Preparing for Lent 1 year, 6 months ago
I plan to cut out caffeine, limit social media use to once a day (because work obligations will not allow me to cut it entirely), and read The Word in the Wilderness. After much deliberation, I also plan to write a poem a day about something I’m reading of the life of Jesus from one of the gospels. At first I was afraid it would feel like another…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue replied to the topic General Questions for Malcolm Guite in the forum <em>The Word in the Wilderness</em> by Malcolm Guite 1 year, 6 months ago
In a recent episode of The Habit podcast, Matthew Clark mentioned that you are on a spiritual warfare ministry team and that you once prayed a prayer of exorcism over a group before diving into poetry together. That’s the first time I’d ever heard anyone mention a relationship between poetry and spiritual warfare, but it correlates to my own…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue replied to the topic Introductions in the forum <em>The Word in the Wilderness</em> by Malcolm Guite 1 year, 6 months ago
Hi! I’m Rachel, in North Carolina. Upon hearing T.S. Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi” being taught during preview days at our Bible College, I immediately decided to attend and become an English major. After finishing my degree, my husband and I spent a dozen years doing mission work in Spain. It was after we moved back to NC that God rekindled…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Hutchmoot 2020 Re-entry: It Takes All of Us 1 year, 10 months ago
In another little corner of community, Leslie Bustard shared poems by Gerard Manly Hopkins and Luci Shaw and invited a response, participating in the ongoing conversation of poets through the ages. I was just beginning to process HH (which feels strange because I’m not finished watching and soaking it in yet!) but this poem is what grew out of it…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Special Prayers for Back to School 1 year, 11 months ago
This is timely! Just yesterday I was printing out various prayers to use together at the start of our homeschool day. Yours are just the thing we needed to round out our selection. Thank you!
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Hutchmoot Headed Your Way 2 years, 1 month ago
What a lovely surprise! I am sad for all those who had tickets and will be missing out on the joys of Hutchmoot in person, but my brain is already firing off creative ways to enjoy this in community here. Thank you, team, for dreaming up ways to make this happen!
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Maya Joelle and
Rachel Donahue are now friends 2 years, 7 months ago
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Hutchmoot Is A Sending Place 2 years, 10 months ago
Kelly, thank you again for writing this and giving words to so many thoughts.
I love that Hutchmoot is one place I can get renewed inspiration and vision for homemaking and motherhood, encouragement and creative thrust for my writing, and new depths of understanding the Bible. This year I was eager to get home and roll up my sleeves again, and I…[Read more] -
Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Introducing a Rabbit Room Comic Strip: Rabbit Trails 4 years, 3 months ago
Yes! This is just the best thing ever.
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Rachel Donahue and
E. M. Anderson are now friends 4 years, 4 months ago
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, On These Our Works Being Works We Will Not Finish 4 years, 5 months ago
I cannot thank you enough for your transparency and humility in sharing both your thoughts and what prompted them. I am always inspired when I see people I admire living in submission to the Word and the community of the Church. The truths you have shared are liberating and encourage me in just the places where I needed encouragement. Thank you!
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Stuff We Liked in 2017 4 years, 7 months ago
Most of my “free” time this year was spent with my nose in a book, so I will list a few noteworthy non-print favorites and allot the rest of my spaces to the printed word.
Movie: Arrival. This movie really stayed with me in a way few ever have.
Music: Everything by the Gray Havens. On repeat. Followed by everything Slugs and Bugs, also on…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, New Release: Sing the Bible Family Christmas 4 years, 9 months ago
We are watching the mail eagerly awaiting ours! The first Slugs and Bugs album came to us at the perfect time in our parenting–when our oldest was in kindergarten. Each album since has felt like a gift to our family. It’s a rare thing to enjoy music we all agree on (even our kids are picky listeners), but the fact that we all love it and it’s scri…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue posted a new activity comment 4 years, 10 months ago
This was my first Hutchmoot. At four AM of our first night home, I finally have words:
We gather in a little garden and sit, in a circle, forever friends newly acquainted. The wind rustles the leaves around us and wafts a sweet aroma as the sun warms our skin. We open our crumpled bags and timidly pull out gifts, and we offer them to one…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, The Failings of Eden 5 years ago
Thank you for this, Helena. I, too, grew up with the first narrative–resulting in a deep sense of guilt and shame and a compulsion to perfectionism. Through a series of painful events the past few years, God began to open my eyes to His great, abiding love for me, even in my mess–His “insatiable desire” for me, as you put it. Even though I am…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Art & Theology Pt. 2 5 years, 1 month ago
Aaaaah! I am geeking out over here. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Sarah, for researching this and sharing it. I am just blown away at this answer to my dilemma over the redemptive analogy in my story. It’s a tree. Seriously. And one of my favorite lines so far is this one: “The whole world seemed to revolve around that tree.” I guess the…[Read more]
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Rachel Donahue commented on the post, Jennen's Messiah 5 years, 3 months ago
This gives me chills! I had never heard of Charles Jennens, but I thank God for his work. His story inspires me on so many levels. I’ll ditto @lisa‘s sentiment: may we be as faithful.
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