Melissa

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Gender Female
Industry Religion
Occupation Associate Pastor @ First Lutheran Church
Location Decorah, IA, United States
Introduction By vocation, I am a pastor. But I also love music, books, cooking, knitting, and nature. I like to take pictures, and I like to explore the world around me. I believe that everything I have and everything I am are nothing other than blessings and gifts of God's grace, none of which I deserve. I believe that I am called to live out that same grace in my life. I firmly believe that my purpose in life is to bear hope in the world.
Interests Theology, music, writing, faith and the arts, knitting, baseball, cooking
Favorite Movies WALL-E, dead poets society, big fish, lost in translation, love actually, emperor's new groove, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, amelie, robin hood men in tights, muppet christmas carol
Favorite Music keane, guster, iron & wine, jars of clay, something corporate, storyhill, coldplay, sandra mccracken, diana krall, st. olaf choir, bach cantatas, brahms symphonies
Favorite Books fiction: a severed wasp (l'engle), lotr trilogy (tolkien), portrait of the artist as a young man (joyce), harry potter (especially 4 and 6) poetry: robert frost, galway kinnell, walt whitman, dylan thomas, madeleine l'engle, billy collins, mary oliver theology: tillich, brueggemann, aquinas, luther, kierkegaard, rowan williams, nt wright