cultivating the beautiful ordinary by sharing our tales and our tables
Red Tent Living is a community of women from across the world reading, writing, reflecting, and responding to one another daily as we reframe what it means to be feminine. We welcome you to join in the conversation and submit your own work!
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Purpose: Once a month gatherings for 6-8 women that include enjoying a meal together and taking time to share pieces of their lives with one another. It is a place where believers and non believers in Jesus can experience community as they find connection in unexpected ways with one another.
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For the month of July the women of Red Tent Living will be considering the theme, “Practicing Gratitude”. We invite you to join us by reading our stories, and by hosting some women at your own table to share their tales prompted by this theme.
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I have had an ambivalent relationship with practice. The word alone conjures up many feelings. First, my eleven years of piano lessons were wrought with more pain than pleasure. Many hours my body yearned to have been running, bicycling, or playing sports, but I was living in an era when piano lessons were more common…
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In September 2022, a year-and-a-half after Mom’s death, I stood in the basement that housed my business, Heart Path Story Coaching, from its opening in April 2019 until now. It is where Mom confessed she should have never made me president of the family. It is where I met with my earliest clients and art…
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Entering the temple amongst the noise and cries Of the money changers selling means for sacrifice Filled with holy anger, he lashed through the crowd Turning over tables and throwing them out
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At a very young age I learned that anger was bad and led to destruction and disconnection. When my dad’s anger turned toward me, I froze and drifted away to a place far away from that terrifying reality and that terror got stuck inside me. I remember coming home from teaching after having my second…
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I turned 50 this year. Can I share that there is a lot of pressure to be awesome by 50? You should take a monumental trip, have a huge party, have your children rise up and call you blessed. Good Lord! The pressure! My 40s were hard. In the last ten years, I have sat…
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I think god made the trees to remind me to breathe and to stand when everything changes and to make something majestic out of this crookedness.
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These past few weeks have been quite eventful, filled with discussions that deeply resonated with me. It started with my book club, where we delved into topics such as the protests on college campuses, the current state of abortion rights, and the ongoing conflicts around the world. These conversations were eye-opening and thought-provoking, highlighting the…
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With a plastered-on smile, I faced a rowdy class of Chinese preschoolers and reached down to the tips of my toes to muster up my maximum volume: “If you’re happy and you know it…” I clapped my hands. I stomped my feet. And I turned myself around. “That’s what it’s all about, hey?” But those…
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when grief bleeds out measure of Time may dally- this seems, to the naked eye depressants are but tuneless air in the snow- chills from dogma’s speech
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