Good morning... When the founder and director of PAWkids asked me and the women connected to our church family to create one hundred Christmas gift bags for the seniors in the poverty-stricken Grove Park neighborhood of our city, my heart leapt! What a sweet hands-on way to give, to create, to joyfully join hearts with our expanding community. [...]
Good morning... "And above all," says the Roald Dahl quote tucked in a beautiful thank you card, "watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Watching with glittering eyes, I have seen the magic of [...]
Good morning... At our annual Turkey Bowl, the welcome is wide, the laughter is contagious and the score always ends in a tie. Returning home to cook turkey and fixin's, I received an email responding to our Thanksgiving blog post. Early in the morning, as a written word community, we had experienced this prayer, a prayer written by [...]
Good morning... As summer slowly turns toward fall this sacred Sabbath morn, please savor with me a 360-degree look at the powerful shades of God. The God of gods, the mighty Lord himself, has spoken! He shouts out over all the people of the earth in every brilliant sunrise and every beautiful sunset, saying, “Listen to me!” (Psalm 50:1, TPT). ...Sue... [...]
Good morning... I drove to Grayton Beach, Florida for a planning time with Kitty Crenshaw and Cathy Snapp as we prepare for our November 6th Awake To Wholeness Women's Retreat at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta. As I have said previously, "Please save the date." And now I can add, "Yes," we are working on a [...]
Good morning... One night when I was up in the dark, early hours, I happened across a captivating video sharing the story of a global non-profit called charity: waters. Several months later, my young friend Joanna said, "I have been invited to go on assignment for charity: waters." My memory returned immediately to the story of this fascinating [...]
Good morning... "Sue - thank you for the wonderful message today," she emailed me after yesterday's post, Listen Carefully. "When I read Henri's meditation on July 6th, I was struck by the rich notes of the veil that were connected to the music you were writing to us about the Will of God. Isn't God's tapestry so brilliantly [...]
Good morning... "I love love love this photo and the joy and peace it pours into the dreams gestating in our hearts," I texted the artist, my dear friend Corinne Adams. "I am spending the morning meandering through Julie Harlan's prayer journals, discerning in more detail the root system beneath Julie's Dream." "It's a dream scape, indeed," Corinne [...]
Good morning... Shared in a recent blog post, many of you love this Goodwill photo I decided to hang upside down on our wall. Symbolically, I thought I had emptied out every dream from this photo - dreams for the hungry children we have met on mission trips over the years, dreams for our four kids, our kids' [...]
Good morning... Yesterday, I read a tender devotional message written by a calm, compassion co-worker, a beautiful young woman with a loving and gentle soul. With her permission, I now share these life-giving words with you. ****** Northside Weekdays - April 22nd - Elisabeth Shabi I am now in the second year of watching my garden grow. When [...]
