Open Door #3

Good morning... "Oops, This Page Could Not Be Found!" says the link given at the bottom of blog post #2 for today, You've Got A Friend In Me. Never before have I sent you three messages on one morning, but this is an unusual moment in unsettling times. We are asked to adapt, stretch, and change directions, finding [...]

By |2020-04-16T11:29:21-04:00April 16th, 2020|Authenticity, Community, Everyday life, Home, Trust God|

Facing “The Day After”

Good morning... Following our recent post My Stupid Decision, she wrote a very encouraging email, encouragement I think we all can learn from in the classroom of God's grace. ****** Dear Sue, Stupid decisions, the little ones: I make them every day. Usually it is hitting “send” too quickly. But the recent big one came in a very [...]

By |2020-03-09T02:35:35-04:00March 9th, 2020|Authenticity, Discernment, Everyday life, Trust God|

Caught In My Pajamas

Good morning... Okay. So I am an ENFP on the Myers Briggs personality test. Extroverted. Intuitive. Feeling. Perceiving. That's me. Creatively collaborative, highly intuitive, and deeply perceptive, I feel every facet of life with great gusto. As a very strong "P," I get so caught up in the joy of flying that I have a hard time landing [...]

By |2020-01-25T08:45:56-05:00January 25th, 2020|Authenticity, Peace, Spiritual Growth|

Wait Or Work?

Good morning... "I don’t feel terribly convicted about anything right now," a reader from South Carolina admitted after yesterday's post, Waiting Without Words. "I don’t feel 'on fire' or on a mountaintop. Thank goodness I’m not in a dark valley, but I do feel as though I am merely existing. Yesterday I was a bit sad that I [...]

By |2019-10-09T05:46:34-04:00October 9th, 2019|Authenticity, Discernment, Everyday life, Trust God|

Cook Up Compassion

Good morning... Reluctantly, yesterday late afternoon, I canceled my flight to Jacksonville, Florida. Hurricane Dorian lies angrily in wait, dangerously daunting. For months I have looked forward to nestling into deep conversation with author of The Hidden Life Awakened, Kitty Crenshaw, and talking over lunch with our 93-year-old friend, Christian mystic Betty Skinner. On Sunday, I got word [...]

By |2019-09-03T08:52:53-04:00September 3rd, 2019|Authenticity, Community, Everyday life, God's Love|

One Class Leads To Many

Good morning... It is bittersweet for me to help craft words for the final email sent out to our August Enneagram class. Included here are the notes from last week's teaching, the focus for this week's lesson, and a link to register for fall classes at Northside Church, which begin the week of September 9th. What a joy [...]

By |2019-08-26T07:24:40-04:00August 26th, 2019|Authenticity, Community, God's Plan, Joy, Spiritual Growth|

The Magic Of Play

Good morning... "In Christ's name we play," my Freudian slip ended our prayer, ushering us into a magical evening. "Researcher Stuart Brown, MD, describes play as time spent without purpose," Brene Brown stretches her own mind to welcome this new possibility. "To me this sounds like the definition of an anxiety attack. I feel behind if I’m not [...]

By |2019-08-20T07:56:58-04:00August 20th, 2019|Abundance, Authenticity, Everyday life, Joy, Spiritual Growth|

Should I Be Teaching The Enneagram?

Good morning... After the second week of our Enneagram class, I got an email from a very good friend. "Sue, I thought you might want to read where the Enneagram originated. Also google Sufi. I just wasn’t sure if you knew this. Pray and see if this is something the Lord wants you to be involved with. Love you [...]

By |2019-08-19T06:59:02-04:00August 19th, 2019|Authenticity, Discernment, Spiritual Growth, True Self, Trust God|

My 90 Minutes In Heaven

Good morning... Last Monday morning, Rev. Catherine Boothe Olson and I prepared the space for our noontime Enneagram class. As people began slowly trickling into the sacred chapel, I felt like a "welcome" greeter in heaven. I joyfully hugged women I love from book studies in our living room and women I adore from mission trips, outreach experiences, [...]

By |2019-08-12T07:15:36-04:00August 12th, 2019|Authenticity, Community, Heaven On Earth, Spiritual Growth, True Self|

Be The One

Good morning... After a tragic weekend when more innocent, voiceless people lost their lives to a bullying bullets, her blessing came as a breath of fresh hope. "Saw this online today and it made me think of you and your butterflies," she wrote. "May we all 'be the one.' xo." "Wow. I absolutely love this," I said, especially after [...]

By |2019-08-11T08:40:50-04:00August 5th, 2019|Authenticity, Community, Everyday life, God's Love|
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