Collette Broady Grund

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  • Wedding Presence

    Wedding Presence

    I awoke with a start to 4 a.m. darkness. Crap. I’d forgotten to take extension cords to the farm. And who was going to bring the ice for punch again? Oh, and the curtains for dressings rooms hadn’t been hung. So much for a family lunch after the morning rehearsal. We’d need to get out…

  • A Walk in the Dark with my Father-in-law

    It is exactly 6:15am on a Sunday morning.  I woke up at 5:15 and went to the bathroom.  When I returned to bed, I remembered the dream I had when I woke up.  I eventually start laughing pretty hard and Collette says “Why are you laughing?”.  I explain the dream I had and begin laughing…

  • The Hardest Sermon

    Here’s the text of the sermon I preached this morning, which several people have asked to read. Please know that I struggled mightily over every word, and I shook as I preached them both times. This is heavy stuff, but I said what I felt I was given by the Spirit this week. Advent 2B:…

  • Choosing to Lose

    Choosing to Lose

    I felt it when the Trayvon Martin verdict was returned. When the #yesallwomen conversation was happening about rape culture on Twitter and Facebook, it stirred in me too. And again, when protests first erupted in Ferguson, Missouri. Now last night and today, with the grand jury decision on the shooting of Michael Brown, It’s taken hold…

  • Affirmation

            I returned a few days ago from Alaska, the first of Marrett’s trips to visit my family. We fished, we picked gold flakes out of the river, we breathed in the beauty of the mountains and valiantly tried (and failed) to capture the scale of the place on film. But more importantly,…

  • Out of the Prius and Into the Frying Pan

    In the first big change of this change-filled summer, I sold my Prius. Good old Blue-y, the first new car I ever bought, back when you still got a giant tax rebate for buying a hybrid. It travelled 120,000 miles with me, in Chicagoland rush hour traffic, over the rolling rural highways of central Pennsylvania,…

  • It’s Complicated…

    Six weeks ago, we got engaged. Though I knew it was coming, Marrett pulled off a total surprise. It was Sunday afternoon, after a hard week, and Ollie and I headed to the playground to meet a friend and her son. It was a beautiful May day, sun warming us after a miserably cold spring,…