Lectionary Living: Recent Episodes
Barbara Laymon
Exploring the Sunday scripture readings of the Revised Common Lectionary from a family systems view; Centering daily life around the Sunday readings through questions for reflection; Becoming more oneself and more connected with others. Dr. Barbara Laymon, author and host, is a family counselor in clinical practice. She has published a religious novella with Augsburg Books.
Managing the fear of dying is an option
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Perspective changes everything
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Wondering how life works brings amazing non-answers
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Awareness of the needs of others is part of growing up.
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Too little, too much, or just right, it's always there
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Sometimes it's enough to know one is doing one's best
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How comparisons get in the way
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Life and Peace, that is.
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It's up to you - no one else can take your self away
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Good intentions become realities when a person focuses on goals
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The great prayers are the humble prayers
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Time-limited chances to find the eternal in the mundane
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Calming down comes first
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The inner impact of losing contact with others
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Gaps in the family story keep everyone stuck
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Now more than ever, every bit helps
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The advantages of fear and trembling
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Seeing how a group is wired can make a difference
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Practical realities make a difference
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You too can be a king or queen every day - over yourself
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The fear of death gets in the way of living
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Managing oneself can take all day!
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Bringing daily opportunities to know one another better!
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On having a self to sacrifice
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Moving from reactive to realistic
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It takes time to calm down and see
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How does your life story reflect what you believe?
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If it sounds like a duck and it questions like a duck...
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Group pressure is part of life - how one responds is what matters
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On avoiding helplessness
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Jesus offers an Anger Management Workshop (RCL 3/7/21)
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Time for Amendment of Life
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Getting clear with yourself can help
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Being needed makes a difference
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Authenticity is in short supply
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No time like the present to start being who you want to be
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The problem is noticing when they do.
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The pressure to move from confusion to clarity can be a good thing
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Trying to please others can get in the way
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Looking for meaning? You won't be the first to find it in the Bible!
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Visualizing a way out begins with having an intention in mind
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Facing tribulation with maturity beas the alternative
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The great good news about relationship processes
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A 21st century reminder that much work lies ahead, both individually and co-operatively
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How wise girls have more fun
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Humility allows a person to sleep at night
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Identifying and doing what matters are ongoing opportunties
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For a good debate, bring both intellect and emotions!
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Come as you are, but bring your more grown-up self to the party
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In anxious times, ten solid rules have a lot to offer
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A fairly new century sings a very old song
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Fear, anger, and blame spread faster than covid-19.
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Unlimited opportunity to grow oneself and let go of the rest
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To find your true life, what will you have to lose?
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All families have challenges. The choice is whether to engage or avoid them.
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Spoken words - or texts or tweets - can either define or taint the person talking.
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How families keep passing their immaturity on
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Tossing and turning? Wrestling with fears is biblical!
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The trouble with deceiving others is losing one's own self along the way.
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Seemed like a good idea at the time? How long-term distancing can solve one problem and create more.
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Even though John Fogerty taught us to sing I ain’t no millionaire’s son, each of us has a birthright. Finding the way to it is worth the (considerable) effort it may take!
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Seeing the family emotional process is its own reward
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Because avoiding human sacrifice may be at stake
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How immaturity works to stop the fun and grow the troubles
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Cooperation matters, now more than ever
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Humbled by Covid? True humility is hard to say and harder to do!
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Leaders in any group are those who bring focus to a common goal.
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Prayers offered in tough times can make a difference
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Reflections on loving anyone or anything
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Distressed, agitated, tense, mentally worried, going to extra work? This week’s posting is meant for you.
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A short commentary about bad leaders, a good shepherd, and what is up to each of us.
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On the road to Emmaus, one sees a display of what we humans are up against (ourselves) and a way out of the predicament.
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Shut up in our homes for fear of the virus gives us a lot in common with the disciples, behind locked doors in today's reading. Turns out, there's a lot we might be ready to learn now.
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Celebrating Easter during COVID-19 may be a stretch. What does redemption look like in these times?
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Can human behavior be described as a sheep flu pandemic? My blog post for the April 5 (Palm Sunday) readings considers the days leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus.
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Reflections - fair warning, longer than usual - brought to you by the novel coronavirus.
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Two very different people – David and the man born blind – and the capacity to live according to the way things really are.
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Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well: a case study on finding the grace in life
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A bit of the Nicodemus in all of us: what gets in the way of becoming more of a self, born from above, where the perspective on life is bigger.
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How humans are tempted - and how practice in standing up to temptation can make a person more fully alive.
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A Family Therapist Looks at the Lectionary for January 19th
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