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To Be an Image
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! How are you today? We hope all is well for you and yours. Last week we gave you a bit of food for...
The Kaleid Team
Oct 27, 20213 min read
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To Be Able
Dear Kaleid Ladies, At Kaleid, we like to lift up our eyes and look more closely. At God. At the face staring back at us in the mirror....
The Kaleid Team
Oct 20, 20212 min read
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Indigenous Curiosity
Dear Kaleid Ladies, On Monday of this week, you likely knew that your time off (if you had it!) was thanks to one of those complicated...
The Kaleid Team
Oct 13, 20213 min read
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Beautiful Form Watcher
Dear Kaleid Women, Happy rainy Wednesday to you Atlanta ladies! We hope you find a way to either settle into the cozy or to happily...
The Kaleid Team
Oct 6, 20212 min read
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Life at the Center
Dear Kaleid Women, Good morning! Today we want to offer a poem that a member of our team wrote and shared for the first Foundations...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 29, 20211 min read
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The Lord's Prayer
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning. Life gets complicated. Sometimes we need a reminder to hold on to and to be held by the basics. And so...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 22, 20212 min read
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At God's Table
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Are there parts of yourself that you hold in contempt or try to hide? Do you ever overemphasize your “pretty parts”...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 15, 20213 min read
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What Are You Doing Here, Lord?
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Have you ever wondered what God is doing? Have you ever wondered what God is doing here, now? Those questions can be...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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Divine Welcome
Dear Kaleid Ladies, What is the warmest welcome you’ve ever received? Take yourself back to a time when you entered a place and felt the...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 1, 20212 min read
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Invitation to Integration
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! This email is your express written invitation to join us for Foundations, the Kaleid Circle that is our...
The Kaleid Team
Aug 25, 20212 min read
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Invitation to Discernment
“A circle of trust holds us in a space where we can make our own discernments...in the encouraging and challenging presence of other...
The Kaleid Team
Aug 18, 20213 min read
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Invitation to Dialogue
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! How are you today? We hope that the back-to-school routines in your home are going well as you get into...
The Kaleid Team
Aug 11, 20213 min read
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Invitation to Presence
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Hey, hey!! It’s August! We can hear the rhythm of “normal life” starting to sound in the background of our pandemic...
The Kaleid Team
Aug 4, 20213 min read
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See You in August!
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Hey there! How are you? We hope you’re doing great and that your summer has provided a lot of great memories with...
The Kaleid Team
Jul 14, 20212 min read
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Life in the Ordinary: Encouragement All Around
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning to you! We hope that your fourth of July holiday was refreshing and restful! Today, we hear from Kaleid...
The Kaleid Team
Jul 7, 20212 min read
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Life in the Ordinary: Grounded and Growing
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning to you! It’s been sweet to hear from Kaleid women about how they are staying grounded so that they can...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 30, 20212 min read
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Life in the Ordinary: Being What We Were Made to Be
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Hello! How are you today? We hope that you have had a chance to settle into a summer rhythm of sorts and that this...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 23, 20212 min read
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Life in the Ordinary: Honesty, Stories, and Adventures
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good Wednesday morning to you! How about the Atlanta heat? It’s finally here in full force. Here’s hoping you have a...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 16, 20212 min read
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Life in the Ordinary: Light, Depth, and a View
Friends, Good morning! For the next several weeks, we are grateful to be sharing what some Kaleid women have shared about how they have...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 9, 20212 min read
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Breathing Life into the Ordinary
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Since we like to notice where we are in the Liturgical Year, today is a good day to note that we have passed from...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 3, 20213 min read
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The Restoration of Shalom
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Today is our final email before we take a break in the month of July. Thanks for being a part of a...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 28, 20232 min read
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Shalom: The Forceful Goodness In-Between
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Hello! Happy Wednesday! For the next few weeks, we are sharing a few quotes from our summer book: The Very Good...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 21, 20233 min read
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The Gospels on "The Gospel"
Dear Kaleid Ladies, This month, we will be sharing a few quotes taken from our summer book circle book: Lisa Sharon Harper’s The Very...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 14, 20232 min read
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What Is "The Gospel"?
Hello Kaleid Ladies! Do you ever wonder about the depth and breadth of what we call “the Gospel” in our churches? How it actually is...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 7, 20232 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
May 31, 20232 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
May 24, 20233 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
May 17, 20233 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
May 10, 20235 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
May 3, 20234 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Apr 26, 20233 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Apr 19, 20231 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Apr 12, 20233 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Mar 29, 20235 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Mar 22, 20234 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Mar 15, 20234 min read
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Welcoming Our Passion
Dear Kaleid Ladies, What does the word “passion” conjure up for you? Scenes of love or abundant personal expression? Perhaps fiery...
The Kaleid Team
Mar 8, 20234 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Mar 1, 20232 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Feb 22, 20234 min read
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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,...
The Kaleid Team
Feb 15, 20232 min read
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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,...
The Kaleid Team
Feb 8, 20234 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Feb 1, 20233 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Jan 25, 20233 min read
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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....
The Kaleid Team
Jan 19, 20233 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Dec 21, 20223 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Dec 14, 20222 min read
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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...
The Kaleid Team
Dec 7, 20222 min read
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The Meaning Making Hope of Advent
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning to you! And welcome to Advent…the beginning of the Church calendar and a sacred season of deep waiting,...
The Kaleid Team
Nov 30, 20222 min read
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Systems: A Salvation That Rescues
Dear Kaleid Ladies, It is almost time for us to sink back into the waiting time…to join Mary and Elizabeth and Zechariah in the dark...
The Kaleid Team
Nov 16, 20224 min read
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Systems: You Care Because It Matters
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Yesterday was election day. We write this email before decisions are known, but no doubt some of us woke grateful;...
The Kaleid Team
Nov 9, 20224 min read
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The Beautiful Stories of Ordinary Souls
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Welcome to November! Today is All Souls Day. It’s not a holy day that we often tune into, but we think that this day...
The Kaleid Team
Nov 2, 20223 min read
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Stories: We Know Ourselves by Knowing Our Place
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! We hope you are well today! This fall, we are Seeing Our City at Kaleid, as we lean into three words to...
The Kaleid Team
Oct 26, 20223 min read
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The Earth As God's Temple
Dear Kaleid Ladies, I’m sure now I’ll see God’s goodness in the exuberant earth. Stay with God! Take heart. Don’t quit. I’ll say it...
The Kaleid Team
Oct 19, 20223 min read
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Listen to Love
Dear Kaleid Ladies, We have talked before about the Shema, the God’s words to Israel in Deuteronomy 6, echoed in Jesus’ summation of the...
The Kaleid Team
Oct 12, 20224 min read
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Earth is Crammed with Heaven
Dear Kaleid Ladies, It’s fall, y’all! (Sorry – that’s too easy.) Changing seasons get us excited here at Kaleid, because Kaleid is all...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 28, 20222 min read
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Learning to Blot: The Preciousness of Place
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Our team has been thinking a lot this fall about Seeing the City and about what it looks like to be...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 21, 20223 min read
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Soil, Story, and System
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Do you ever wonder why it is so hard to connect our faith with “big hairy issues” like creation care...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 14, 20223 min read
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We Meet God in Our Places
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Where do you live? Do you live in your head…in your imagination or your to do list or your mental figuring? Do you...
The Kaleid Team
Sep 7, 20222 min read
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A Daughter, A Peacemaker
Dear Kaleid Ladies, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9 This fall at Kaleid we are...
The Kaleid Team
Aug 31, 20223 min read
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Why Sitting Up Straight Matters
Dear Kaleid Ladies, How is your posture today? Lift up your eyes. Hold your head high. Open your hands. Relax your shoulders. Sit up...
The Kaleid Team
Aug 24, 20222 min read
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The Ironic Space of Silence
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Do you remember the last car trip you took with family or friends? Do you recall the scurry of packing and the lists...
The Kaleid Team
Aug 17, 20224 min read
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Fall Circles Are Open! See The City With Us!
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;...
The Kaleid Team
Aug 10, 20222 min read
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Who, What, How, and Why of Kaleid
Dear Kaleid Ladies, You are patient friends. Kaleid is one of those things that finds you as it is finding itself. We are an...
The Kaleid Team
Jul 28, 20224 min read
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A Prayer for Welcoming
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Today we share a poem that calls us to remembering and welcoming, the third set of practices and...
The Kaleid Team
Jul 20, 20221 min read
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A Prayer for Abiding
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Today we share a poem that calls us to abiding through stillness, silence and solitude, the second set...
The Kaleid Team
Jul 13, 20222 min read
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A Prayer for Childlikeness
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Today we share a poem that calls us to childlikeness and rest, the first set of postures and practices...
The Kaleid Team
Jul 6, 20221 min read
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Remembering God and Welcoming Ourselves
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Thank you for being with us on our “To Be Made Well” summer journey. We spent three weeks in Mark 5,...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 29, 20224 min read
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Taking the Time for Healing
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Thank you for being with us on our “To Be Made Well” summer journey. Where do you need healing today?...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 22, 20224 min read
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What Do Children and Rest Have to Do with Each Other?
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Welcome to another warm one! We are enjoying our summer of being made well together. Our walk at Piedmont Park last...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 15, 20224 min read
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Trust Beyond Privilege
Kaleid’s summer theme is To Be Made Well, and all of our summer circles and emails are pointed in that direction. We’d be thrilled to...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 8, 20224 min read
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The Faith Risk of Chronic Pain
Kaleid’s summer theme is To Be Made Well, and all of our summer circles and emails are pointed in that direction. We’d be thrilled to...
The Kaleid Team
Jun 1, 20223 min read
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