Confession, Memory, and Hope
Dear Kaleid Women, Good morning to you! How are you? Have you been noticing the tangible rhythms in your life as symbolic of God’s deeper...
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The Kaleid Team
- Aug 21, 2019
- 2 min
God’s Story in the Tangible
Dear Kaleid Women, What do we love? Fresh flowers on the table? Sunshine through a window on the floor? A brand new pen? Hot morning...
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The Kaleid Team
- Aug 14, 2019
- 2 min
What Does It Mean to "Do God's Story?"
Dear Kaleid Women, Kaleid is a growing tribe of women learning to “See Ourselves, See Others, and See the City” through new lenses. In...
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The Kaleid Team
- Aug 7, 2019
- 2 min
Doing God's Story in Times of Crisis
Dear Kaleid Women, Did your heart break this weekend? As you walked through the back to school crowds at Target and as you walked to a...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jul 31, 2019
- 2 min
See Yourself: Habits, Loves, and Formation
Dear Kaleid Women, Wow. It’s nearly August, and we stand on the cusp of a New Year of sorts. The academic year brings both chaos and...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jul 24, 2019
- 1 min
A Prayer for Wholeheartedness
Dear Kaleid Women: We are grateful to be concluding our six week email series on “Loving with Power and Presence” as we See Ourselves,...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jul 17, 2019
- 2 min
See Others: The Power of Wholeheartedness
Dear Kaleid Women: “Distracted disconnection.” Ouch. This is the definition of fragmentation that Saranell shared at the Kaleid workshop...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jul 3, 2019
- 3 min
See Others: The Power of Mutuality
In this languid summer season, Kaleid ladies are doing life with power and presence. Specifically, Holy Spirit power and Holy Spirit...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jun 19, 2019
- 3 min
See Others: The Power of Proximity
Dear Kaleid Women, Today we begin a series on power and presence. Specifically, Holy Spirit power and Holy Spirit presence that help us...
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The Kaleid Team
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
See Your Neighborhood: Neighboring with Kindness
Dear Kaleid Women: Jesus famously gave a definition of neighborliness when He told the parable of the Good Samaritan. For a fresh...
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The Kaleid Team
- Feb 22, 2019
- 3 min
See Your Neighborhood: The Table of a Neighbor
Dear Kaleid Women: We’ve been considering how to better see and know our neighborhoods and our city over the last few weeks. We talked...
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The Kaleid Team
- Feb 15, 2019
- 2 min
See Your Neighborhood: Stories of Your Communities
Dear Kaleid Women, “What’s your story?” This is a fairly common greeting. We ask it because it a doorway into conversation. We all have...
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The Kaleid Team
- Feb 8, 2019
- 3 min
See Your Neighborhood: Jesus Moved In
Dear Kaleid Women, Today we embark on a new series of Friday emails. As you know, Kaleid women are focused on deepening the ways we see...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jan 25, 2019
- 3 min
Seeing More: Evangelical and Incarnational Streams
Dear Kaleid Women, We CAN. NOT. WAIT. Our team has been in conversation with Sharol Hayner (link?) over the last few weeks, and we are...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jan 18, 2019
- 3 min
Seeing More: Social Justice and Charismatic Streams
Dear Kaleid Women: Do you wrestle with laying hold of hope in hard places? Real hope – the kind that gives you ballast to weather the...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jan 11, 2019
- 3 min
Seeing More: Contemplative and Holiness Streams
Dear Kaleid Women, Happy Friday to you! We were grateful to share some Kaleid words with you last week – story, lens, and kaleidoscope....
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The Kaleid Team
- Jan 4, 2019
- 2 min
In a Word (or 3) - Happy New Year
Dear Kaleid Women, Happy New Year to you! We hope that your time as hostesses, mothers, wrappers, vacationers, wives, workers, daughters,...
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The Kaleid Team
- Dec 21, 2018
- 2 min
Advent Reflections: Dust and Dignity
Dear Kaleid Women, Christmas is just four days away. You can smell it, taste it, feel it, and almost touch it. (No doubt you’re touching...
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The Kaleid Team
- Dec 14, 2018
- 3 min
Advent Reflections: Examen
Dear Kaleid Women, Last week, we practiced reflecting on the presence of God in the midst of the ordinary – sleeping, eating, and the...
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The Kaleid Team
- Dec 7, 2018
- 2 min
Advent Reflections: Incarnation
Dear Kaleid Women, At some point, the chaos of the season yields to quiet wonder, right? The story of Advent is the story of Mary and...
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The Kaleid Team
- May 31
- 2 min
A Quote, a Scripture, and a Blessing for Your Self
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Today we conclude our walk through of Kaleid’s See Yourself lens. It’s been good to explore our...
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The Kaleid Team
- May 24
- 3 min
Calling on the Shy Side of Power
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning to you! Another school year is wrapping up, as is our walk through two Kaleid lenses this year: See the...
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The Kaleid Team
- May 17
- 3 min
Agency: the Power of Blessings and Boundaries
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Do you know any agents? Real estate agents? FBI agents? Gate agents? Agents represent. They hold the power of an...
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The Kaleid Team
- May 10
- 5 min
What Are Your Power Dynamics?
My life is not about me; it is about God, and God is about love. When we don’t know love, when we experience only the insecurity and...
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The Kaleid Team
- May 3
- 4 min
Power in Love or Power in Fear?
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Blessings on your Wednesday! We had a wonderful time at our Silent Retreat at the Ignatius House on...
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The Kaleid Team
- Apr 26
- 3 min
Imaging God and Owning Your Power
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! What a sweet spring we have had as we’ve gone deep into Kaleid’s See Yourself lens, growing in our...
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The Kaleid Team
- Apr 19
- 1 min
A Blessing For Your Passion
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Thank you for walking with us over the last several weeks as we have explored what it means to be women...
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The Kaleid Team
- Apr 12
- 3 min
Search Me, O God
Dear Friends, Psalm 139:1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me. Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and...
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The Kaleid Team
- Mar 29
- 5 min
How To Do A Story Circle
Dear Kaleid Ladies, “Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to it telling me who I am” Our lives are layered...
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The Kaleid Team
- Mar 22
- 4 min
Looking at God, Looking at Us
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! As you know, we exploring Kaleid’s “See Yourself” lens this spring, stopping at important, God-given...
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The Kaleid Team
- Mar 15
- 4 min
Wounds as Conduits of Love
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! How’s your passion doing? Y’all. Really. I hope you smiled a bit when you read that question. Kaleid is...
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The Kaleid Team
- Mar 8
- 4 min
Welcoming Our Passion
Dear Kaleid Ladies, What does the word “passion” conjure up for you? Scenes of love or abundant personal expression? Perhaps fiery...
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The Kaleid Team
- Mar 1
- 2 min
Blessing The Unknown Parts of Your Purpose
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Thanks for being women curious about your God-given purpose. We have enjoyed the last few weeks of...
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The Kaleid Team
- Feb 22
- 4 min
Just One Thing in Just One Place
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning, and blessings on your Ash Wednesday. Today we come simply, on this day in the church calendar that...
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The Kaleid Team
- Feb 15
- 2 min
See Yourself in God's Presence Today
Dear Friends, Hello! How are you today? Having the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day all in one week can lead to either euphoria or dismay,...
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The Kaleid Team
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Discern Your Purpose by Cultivating Awareness
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Welcome back! This spring, we are looking through our See Yourself lens, talking about how we live into our purpose,...
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The Kaleid Team
- Feb 1
- 3 min
Knowing Our Purpose Helps Us Risk Love
Dear Kaleid Ladies, You were made in love. Because God is Trinity, to be made in God’s image is to be made for relationship. Because God...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jan 25
- 3 min
You Were Made in Love for a Purpose
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! When was the last time you noticed that you were the right woman showing up at the right time for the...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jan 19
- 3 min
What's The Point of Looking in the Mirror?
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Information overload can make us sick on excess. Too much news. Too much nutrition expertise. Too much commentary....
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The Kaleid Team
- Dec 21, 2022
- 3 min
Advent and the Particularity of Love
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! And Merry (almost) Christmas to you! We are so grateful to be in community with those of you we know...
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The Kaleid Team
- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
The Longing Joy of Advent
Dear Kaleid Ladies, The beautiful words of “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus” by Charles Wesley speak of the already-and-not-yet conundrum...
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The Kaleid Team
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
The Surrendered Peace of Advent
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Part of the beauty of Advent for women is getting to spend extended time with Mary and Elizabeth…observing their...
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