Tag Archives: #god'sgrace

Discovering Recovery Church

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

A few nights ago, I went to a local Recovery Church with a friend who, like me, had devastating alcoholism in her family.  I wasn’t sure what I’d find or exactly what I was looking for when I walked into … Continue reading →

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As an Outsider

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

More than twenty years ago I was teaching first-generation immigrant students in a public high school. They came from every trouble spot around the globe. They had crossed oceans, continents, deserts, and landed in my ELL classroom. My charge was … Continue reading →

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Ann C. Averill

Forty-six years ago, my husband and I were married on Columbus Day, now called Indigenous Peoples’ Day. A few nights prior to our anniversary, I finished Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and was struck by the … Continue reading →

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My Aunt Ruth

Posted on March 17, 2023 by Ann C. Averill

Last week I wrote about SHAME, a painful consciousness of being bad, wrong, and less than because of doing bad, wrong things or having them done to you. Shame’s remedy is GRACE, being shown favor you don’t deserve. The question … Continue reading →

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The 5 Senses, a Writer’s Power Tools

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

A whiff of lilacs and I’m back in the arbor atop Thorndon Park, awash in college-girl angst, looking for love and my place in the universe. One beat of Stevie Wonder’s wah-wah pedal in “Superstition”, and I’m back in the … Continue reading →

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