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Easter

Read more about the article 10 Ways to Practice Resurrection

10 Ways to Practice Resurrection

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 10, 2023
  • Post category:Faith
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Yesterday we stood in church and sang Alleluia, and afterwards we gathered with friends and feasted and drank champagne and rejoiced with this day of remembering that the way of…

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Read more about the article Easter| Love Is Life

Easter| Love Is Life

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 9, 2023
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Love is the strongest power. Love is the core of the universe. Love is the only unending, unshakable, permanent truth. Love is life. Love is the narrow path to the…

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Read more about the article Easter 2022: Sweatpants, Social Distancing, Sickness, and Hope
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Easter 2022: Sweatpants, Social Distancing, Sickness, and Hope

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 20, 2022
  • Post category:Faith/Family/Healing
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I tested positive for Covid on Sunday morning. Penny had tested positive a few days before. Forty-five people were planning to come for lunch after church.  So I went to…

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Read more about the article TIME: How Disability Changed What Easter Means to My Family
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TIME: How Disability Changed What Easter Means to My Family

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 16, 2022
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Faith/Family
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I wrote an essay for TIME that came out today: How Disability Changed What Easter Means to My Family. As I write in this essay, when our daughter Penny was…

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Read more about the article Easter Is for Me

Easter Is for Me

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 5, 2021
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On Easter morning, I woke up with my thoughts and emotions churning. I was worried that my Easter baskets wouldn’t thrill the kids. I was spinning from a conversation with…

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