Good morning.. I went out our back gate and strolled down the familiar sidewalk, knowing that if anyone walked my way I would social distance on the other side of the street. No person came near, but a small, peaceful bunny hopped up beside me. I stood watching the calm creature, lifting a prayer for my forever friend [...]
Good morning... "While the Fourth of July, 1776, is the day America declared independence from Great Britain, people of color were not able to celebrate that same freedom," explains a letter I recently received from my spiritual direction training program. "On July 4th, 1852, here is what Frederick Douglass said in his speech The Meaning of July Fourth [...]
Good morning... I woke yesterday congested, with a scratchy throat, possibly a bit of a fever. It is common for me to get a summer cold, out in the heat and back into the air conditioning, swimming in a pool and hanging out with wet hair. Hence the term "common cold." I know what to do when I [...]
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... A longtime friend sent me a moving music video, and I asked if I might share it with our online community. Her permission came with this reply: "Please share! It reminds me of the group of moms who would walk the Lovett School grounds and fervently pray for every inch of that place - every person, [...]
Good morning... Many of us had strong reactions to the opinions expressed in a polarizing post from this week, A Mother's Perspective. Some were very "for" the expression of this mother's truth, agreeing wholeheartedly with the thoughts bravely shared. Some were very "against" the powerful post, appalled by the judgement that an "inebriated 'lost soul'" father with black [...]
Good morning... "The course of true love never did run smooth," says the Shakespeare-quoting sign above. True love is bumpy, up-and-down, back-and-forth, uncomfortably stretching for all committed to the course of compassion. "Good morning, Sue," she wrote after our impassioned post, A Mother's Perspective. "I understand that the woman who wrote this is a relative of policeman but, [...]
Good morning... "I keep this quote by my bedside," she wrote, sharing words from Lisa Beamer, whose husband died on 9/11. "Who is becoming whole again on your watch? What is being healed by your influence? How is God redeeming His creation by way of your life?” Then she added, "And I pray for God’s grace to recognize the opportunities [...]
Good morning... One week ago today I turned in devotional thoughts to be shared with our church family. Now as a church member, the morning message appears in my inbox. Even in this one single week in the foreverness of time, I sense God illuminating more of me as I feel the growing edge of the Spirit expanding [...]
Good morning... "Hello all," a brave daughter of a subscriber wrote a letter to her extended family, giving me permission to share it with you. "I’m sure you all have heard of what’s happening in our country right now in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. I know that many of you hold very different political [...]
