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jennifer clark tinker living faith jennifer clark tinker living faith home about speaking contact 22 dec what s new with me posted by jennifer clark tinker in uncategorized tagged church community faith family life taking risks writing comments off on what s new with me so much has happened in my life since i was really active here on the blog i haven t written a lot about my second child but i was just re reading some of my old posts about my struggles with infertility and it s worth mentioning that i have two beautiful children now they are ages 7 and 21 i often joke that it s natural child spacing at its quirkiest and best they are both precious people and i m so glad i get to be their mom in other news we had a big move earlier this year we moved from a small town population 250 in a rural part of texas to a much bigger small town in the outer suburbs of san antonio it s funny because i run into people who are from major cities and they think of our current suburb as a small town but having come here from a tiny town i look at our bustling suburb with wide eyes and think we re in the city now suburban life is a sweet spot for me i grew up in a suburb of columbus ohio and i loved having wide open countryside nearby while also not being far at all from the really big city and of all the cities in texas san antonio is my favorite so as far as i m concerned we could retire in this big small town we re in right now and i d be delighted our move was prompted by my husband david s recent change of jobs he is now pastoring a church out in the country near this town we call home the setting of the church is ideal because dave gets to pastor a rural congregation which he is so well suited for and we get to live in the suburbs which works well for the kids and me our new church is a delightful community of people they have welcomed all of us with such warmth it s been really good for my soul to be among them i feel like i get to be more myself at this church than i have felt i could be in many previous churches this move in general has been really good for me i even found a job that i love i m working part time at an art store that doubles as a walk in art studio so much of my experience in making art has come in so useful in my new role there i ve only been there three months but i already feel like i m part of really good team of co workers and i love having so many opportunities to share the joy of creating with our customers i m still toying with the idea of going back to school but given the number of times i ve made announcements on the blog about what i might be doing in that regard i m loath to update y all on that until i actually have something concrete to report so that s all the news for now god be with you all this christmas and may you be blessed in the new year if you enjoyed this post please pass it on share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading 28 apr creating words posted by jennifer clark tinker in uncategorized comments off on creating words i ve been getting up early in the morning to write and i like it this is big really big i ve been a nite owl thought to be incurable for nearly all my life i never knew i could be the kind of person to enjoy mornings so much but i do i love the morning now i love being awake before everyone else and doing my own thing for a spell more specifically i like the feeling of purpose that getting up to write gives me i have so many words oh so many and i want them live somewhere so getting up to write gives me that sense of honoring myself by giving my words a place to exist to be free to have their day in the sun well not literally in the sun because the sun isn t out yet it s just an expression you know i m working to add other times during my day to write too because like i say oh so many words i have stories and prose and poems and songs that all clamor to emerge to the light and i m committed to giving them each their day i don t know if i could enumerate all the works i have considered writing even those i have determined i will certainly write is a vast number oh so many words and oh so many works there s a hymn called how great thou art that has a line that says when i in awesome wonder consider all the works thy hand hath made emphasis mine and in the hymnal i grew up using there was an asterisk by works that led to a note saying or worlds i ve always had a little fascination with this but never researched it somehow i ve just always intuited that it makes sense that these could be interchangeable because a big part of god s work is that of creating worlds noteworthy too is that god used words to speak worlds into existence i told someone on a recent evening that i was getting up early the next morning they asked me whether i had to work without stopping to explain that i would be writing and i was between paid gigs i simply said yes it felt good to recognize my writing as work i am after all creating worlds with my words if you enjoyed this post please pass it on share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading 21 mar it s good to get outside posted by jennifer clark tinker in inspiration tagged health joy life music 4 comments i composed this song with my toddler james 23 months on a little jaunt outside the house it s a simple ditty about a simple idea it s good to get outside in spring i think in these strange times the simple things are worth singing about and even as we practice social distancing there s nothing bad but a lot good about getting outside breathing fresh air and communing with nature your turn what s something simple yet good in your life right now please share with us in the comments below if you enjoyed this post please pass it on share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading 20 mar creativity beckons posted by jennifer clark tinker in inspiration tagged depression family health infertility religion secondary infertility writing 8 comments greetings dear reader it has been literally years since i last wrote here and i m feeling drawn back to this space back to writing back to my creative self some things have changed and some have stayed the same it would be difficult to summarize all that has happened with me my life my family and the world since i last wrote so i won t try to sum up all the things in their entirety in one neat little blog post i will tell you this my mental health is better than ever i have had some interesting starts and stops in my vocational journey as a minister and theologian and i finally had that baby i had been praying for he ll be two years old next month it s quite likely that more about these matters will come out on the blog sooner or later time will tell and the world well i won t elaborate on what you what you already know these are strange times we are living in with a pandemic afoot what i do want to say here and now is that this is the fullness of time for my creativity i want to go on record about this just as i did in the beginning with my writing i m claiming this as my call i ve been feeling the call for a while now to get back to the blog and to get back to writing in general i ve missed my creativity as i have felt somehow out of touch with it for some time now but especially as the world feels as if it has entered the twilight zone my creativity is beckoning like never before a writer has to write i have to write and i need to be creating to make sense of my experience and maybe maybe to inspire a few people along the way too it s good to be back to the blog and to respond to this prompting i feel as creativity beckons your turn what s calling to you in these strange times if you enjoyed this post please pass it on share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading 11 may i am a lover posted by jennifer clark tinker in community tagged caring community love unconditional love comments off on i am a lover i am a lover this is who i am at my core my love is wide so wide i care deeply even for people i ve never met in person maybe never will my heart is open gaping open you can walk right into it anyone could but here you are you could work your way from my heart to my head and i wouldn t be able to quit caring about you not ever you would be a part of me there are so many of y all here now too many to count and i don t know how y all keep getting in because even though my heart is open sometimes my arms are closed sometimes my eyes are closed sometimes my ears are closed sometimes i want to tune you out a while turn off the steady flow of pilgrims to my heartland sometimes it feels like i ve had enough of y all i ve loved enough of y all for one lifetime i am a lover but how can i love well when more and more of you keep coming i still mourn those i have loved and lost you know part of my heart part of me died when they departed and my heart oh it has been hurt by some i have let in some i have loved that ache interferes with my loving makes it hard for my heart to go on my heart isn t what it once was but still my heart is open so wide open and i want to let you in i have let you in because i am a lover if you enjoyed this post please pass it on share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading older entries follow living faith via email enter your email address to follow living faith and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 233 other subscribers like me on facebook like me on facebook jennifer clark tinker i am a lutheran deaconess living and serving just outside of san antonio texas i love to teach preach write and inspire people with my creativity i write about lots of things but i hover around topics of faith church and theology i m married to a lutheran pastor and together we have two children who are fourteen years apart my hobbies include ukulele and mixed media art view full profile top posts pages confessions of a lutheran charismatic in the thick of it a review of the blackberry bush novel by david housholder stuff you learn after you say i do blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed jennifer clark tinker join 233 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy jennifer clark tinker subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website d