Good morning... As I wake on Day #7, still self-quarantining in our basement, I think, "And this type of COVID testing was designed to produce results in two days." We easily got a testing appointment with our doctor friend last Thursday, we waited in line for about thirty minutes to experience the uncomfortable procedure, and we were told [...]
Good morning... Her email was short and direct. "Sue, what is happening around us? What do we do? Is God listening? Afraid for our world." My response was long and drawn out. "Great questions. I am learning not to just slough off important opportunities to communicate. You are asking so I will answer and these are my prayerful responses." [...]
Good morning... "I don't think I have hated anyone like this before," she said. "I can't stand being around her. I just feel so unsafe, like she might attack me with her words at any time, belittling me in front of everyone, making me feel horrible. I know we are supposed to love our enemies, but I don't [...]
Good morning... After writing yesterday's controversial post, A Mother's Perspective, I climbed back into bed, hoping for more sleep. That's when the wisdom of Ecclesiastes 5:3 (CEV) filled me full, integrating my mind, my body, and my soul. If you keep thinking about something, you will dream about it. If you talk too much, you will say the [...]
Good morning... The quilt of our common ground is knit together with colorfully diverse patches. One subscriber's initial email, my response, and her return email below were exchanged after this week's post, The Fierce Urgency Of Now, a post which shed light on the death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta on Friday night. She wrote... As the protestors [...]
Good morning... "I think we are all living in what Rohr calls liminal time," she said to me at a backyard reception following the funeral. Intuitively I agreed, then I thought to myself, "I need to look up the definition of that word again." Liminal. Wikipedia shares this drawing and this detailed description: "In [...]
Good morning... After watching violence erupt all over the news following the very sad public killing of George Floyd and hearing story after story of private violence against young teenaged girls in the first episode of Filthy Rich, a documentary about Jeffery Epstein, I went to sleep. In the middle of the night I woke after a short [...]
Good morning... It feels like we are living in limbo. That's an interesting word. Limbo is a state of oblivion, an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place, a place or state of confinement. Nothingness. Nowhere. Left field. Out there. As kids, we used to play the game of limbo, shimmying beneath a bar without touching the ground, a bar that [...]
Good morning... I hate to disappoint people. I lose sleep over perceived mistakes. I feel most at peace when those around me are at peace. I am only as happy as my most unhappy loved one. Is this some personalized form of co-dependency, God? Why do I attach my cart to the perception of people instead of securely [...]
Good morning... In the silence of this early morning, which shade of emotion do I pull out and play with, like a pristine ball of pliable play dough? Sensing. Softening. Squeezing, stretching, shaping. God, which emotion of my multi-colored myriad needs tending to right now? As I breathe into this sacred space, God somehow answers. An old favorite [...]
