Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Excerpted Inspirations #54
[Nine-year-old Anna Solden, the youngest of five, has recently moved to Canada from Germany with her family. (It's 1933.) She has...
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Liz Kufs
- 5 days ago
- 4 min
THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 57-69
Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 57-69: Summary of the Numbers: Swedenborg begins this section by writing "there are countless...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Nov 29
- 1 min
Excerpted Inspirations #53: Down Memory Lane
["Down Memory Lane" posts are a new feature of Excerpted Inspirations, where we present a passage from a past or present Swedenborgian...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Nov 22
- 2 min
One Year of Excerpted Inspirations!
Dear Friends of Deborah's Tree, Liz Kufs and I have now completed a full year of Excerpted Inspirations. I've chosen the quotes and Liz...
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Julie Conaron
- Nov 21
- 4 min
THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 49-56
Word Cloud of Conjugial Love Numbers 49-56: Summary of the numbers: This group of passages talk about marriages in heaven and how...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Nov 15
- 2 min
Excerpted Inspirations #52
"My father loved the beauty of the world perhaps even more than I do but his love for human beings equaled it. Being both of us great...
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Roslyn Taylor
- Nov 14
- 7 min
THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 42-48
Word Cloud of Conjugial Love Numbers 42-48: Summary of the Numbers: This selection from Conjugial Love concludes the topic of "Marriages...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Nov 8
- 2 min
Excerpted Inspirations #51
"If you ever read any anthropology, one of the first things you notice is that primal cultures simmer up all their mystery and magic and...
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Kelly Milne
- Nov 7
- 3 min
THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 27-41
Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 27-41: Summary of the Numbers: In this section of Conjugial Love the subject of Marriage in Heaven...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Nov 1
- 1 min
Excerpted Inspirations #50
"We were making pumpkin pie -- you know, one of those educational projects where you do it from scratch and it only takes five hours and...
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Liz Kufs
- Oct 31
- 5 min
THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 14-26
Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 14-26: Summary of the Numbers: In this section, an angel arrives and invites a group of ten...
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Julie Conaron
- Oct 25
- 4 min
THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 1-13
Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 1-13: Summary of the Numbers: The beginning of this section, while implying it is all about love,...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Oct 25
- 2 min
Excerpted Inspirations #49
"'... Soeur Angélique, leave your work in the sacristy and pray here instead of Mère Madeleine. Do not look so scared, my daughter. It...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Oct 18
- 2 min
Excerpted Inspirations #48
[The "Railway Children," Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis, rescued a boy with a broken leg, and he is now laid up in their home.] "'I say,...
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Roslyn Taylor
- Oct 17
- 5 min
THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE'
"We know it from experience." Swedenborg tells about hearing some women in heaven responding this way to a group of men talking...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Oct 11
- 2 min
Excerpted Inspirations #47
[Marie Killilea wrote two books about her daughter Karen Killilea, who was born with cerebral palsy in the 1940s and overcame both...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Oct 4
- 3 min
Excerpted Inspirations #46
[Rose has just received a declaration of love from her cousin Mac, and spoken about what she hoped for in a lover, taking her Uncle Alec...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Sep 27
- 2 min
Excerpted Inspirations #45
"She was always demanding too much of people and occasions. She met them with too much expectation, pursued them for perfection, and...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Sep 20
- 2 min
Excerpted Inspirations #44
"I think it was Bion who saw it first, but we've all seen it. Timothy will rush out to the big meadow, his once-timid tail waving...
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Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
- Sep 13
- 2 min
Excerpted Inspirations #43
"Everyone took a look, and then Dan showed them the lovely plumage on a moth's wing, the four feathery corners to a hair, the veins on a...
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