Waging Peace During Advent
Dear Friends, Happy chilly December day to you! We hope you and your families are well on this bright morning. It is the second week of...
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The Kaleid Team
- Dec 2, 2020
- 3 min
Advent Hope for Frontier Living
Dear Friends, Good morning to you! We look forward to walking through Advent with you in these emails and in our contemplative times*...
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The Kaleid Team
- Nov 25, 2020
- 2 min
Happy Thanksgiving!
Dear Friends, Happy Thanksgiving to you! We pray that your day of thanks, no matter how unusual, quiet, or complicated, will be a gift of...
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The Kaleid Team
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
Curiosity and Care in the Context of Relationships
Dear Friends, Good morning! What a beautiful week we are having here in Atlanta. Have you been able to walk outside and inhale the cool...
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The Kaleid Team
- Nov 11, 2020
- 3 min
The Context of the Present Moment
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! Blessings on your Wednesday! Last week we asked, “What if we’ve been listening to our own stories and...
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The Kaleid Team
- Nov 4, 2020
- 3 min
Context. Boring Word. Valuable Invitation.
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning. This email was penned 48 hours ago. The words took shape on Monday of this week. This note is lovingly...
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The Kaleid Team
- Oct 28, 2020
- 2 min
Clearing Our Eyes
Dear Kaleid Ladies, We are less than a week out from Election Day. As we anticipate whatever next week holds for our county, we pray that...
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The Kaleid Team
- Oct 21, 2020
- 2 min
Holding the Tension
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! What a beautiful week we are enjoying! Thanks be to God! As we live through Covid-19 and approach a...
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The Kaleid Team
- Oct 14, 2020
- 2 min
Wrestling Matches and Liturgical Moments
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Today we continue practice loving God with our heart, soul, mind, and strength. This is our collective commitment...
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The Kaleid Team
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! We are grateful for you and for this community of thoughtful and brave women. Those of us sharing in...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
Brace Yourself with Courageous Engagement
Dear Friend, We’ve got some options today. (A statement of the obvious in our free country.) So, to clarify, let’s talk about one option,...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Brace Yourself with the Light of God's Reality
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning to you! We pray you are well today. Once again, it’s been a heavy week in the news. In this week’s...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 16, 2020
- 2 min
Brace Yourself with Gratitude
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning to you! Today, we offer you a smile. And a virtual hug or some flowers...whatever your soul needs to...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 9, 2020
- 3 min
Brace Yourself by Leaning into Liturgy
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! First of all, thank you for your engagement with us as we have been sharing a lot of email love this...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 min
Kaleid Circle - Packing Food Boxes
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Are you hungry for some way to serve but frustrated by the constraints of COVID? It’s been hard to know that the...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
Kaleid Circle - Contemplative Mornings
Dear Kaleid Women, We’re very grateful to be offering a “Kaleid Contemplative Mornings” series again this fall. We loved our time...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
Kaleid Circle - Dignity of Life Conversations
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Do you find yourself a political exile? Lost between parties or searching for what it means to be politically active...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 1, 2020
- 3 min
Brace Yourself by Laying It Down
Dear Kaleid Ladies, How was your August? We truly hope you enjoyed the quotes and images from the August emails as we took some weeks to...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jul 29, 2020
- 3 min
The Dignity and Limits of Being Human
Dear Kaleid Ladies, There is so much humbling about being human, about being physical. It is in our humanity that we discover our limits....
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The Kaleid Team
- Jul 22, 2020
- 2 min
Solvitur Ambulando
Dear Kaleid Ladies, Good morning! How are you? We pray you are well on this Wednesday morning. Today our Be the Bridge 101 group, where...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jun 28
- 2 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jun 21
- 3 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jun 14
- 2 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Jun 7
- 2 min
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...
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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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The Kaleid Team
- Nov 30, 2022
- 2 min
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,...
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The Kaleid Team
- Nov 16, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Nov 9, 2022
- 4 min
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;...
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The Kaleid Team
- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Oct 26, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 21, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 14, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Aug 24, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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The Kaleid Team
- Aug 17, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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