Good morning... I listened and learned from my friend as we talked by phone on her way to work, my friend who has no umbrella in this hurricane season of her life. Then I drove twelve minutes downtown to PAWkids, a non-profit agency supporting kids and their families in the most poverty-stricken portion of our city. After our [...]
Good morning... My husband Steve is a multi-faceted guy. Husband and father. Son and brother. High school teacher, chaplain, and wrestling coach. Good friend, loyal listener, and honest communicator. But one thing you may not know about Steve is this: he loves leading groups on trips to Israel. Every other year, Steve shepherds Lovett students in footprints left [...]
Good morning... When we arrived at the trailhead of Rock Mountain in Cashiers, N.C., we spread out one by one to experience the sacred trek. "I feel like one of Betty's bridesmaids," I thought to myself as I took my first steps. Our destination for the day was a private spot Betty Skinner called Julian's Rock. Day after [...]
Good morning... As good friends treated us to a Braves game last week, she said, "I thought you were going to take some time off from writing your daily blog posts this summer." "Well, I was kinda hoping to take a break," I heard myself say, "but blogging each day has become such an important part of my [...]
Good morning... Weekly worship and Sunday school is one way to feed our deep need for collaborative community. Small group learning opportunities also offer us a way to learn and grow with God and one another. We, in the Women's Ministry at Northside Church, begin most of our weekday classes next Monday, September 13th. If you are looking [...]
Good morning... "This popped up again on my Facebook feed to make us smiley today," she texted. "It's my home town, Bham." This energizing music video reminds me of the first verses of Psalm 150, which sound like this in the VOICE translation. Praise the Eternal! Praise the True God inside His temple. Praise Him beneath massive skies, [...]
Good morning... Waking on this Sabbath morn, my muddied heart sits still amid high winds and hard rains of various kinds. Though I am safely up the coast, I feel a prayerful solidarity with those hunkered down in the path of Hurricane Ida. I am praying, minute by minute, for the daughter of a dear friend who finally [...]
Good morning... With summer tipping into fall, my husband and I went to the first high school football game of the season. Lights. Crowds. A buzzing excitement. I could not help but snap a photo of the exuberance of heaven pouring into the ruggedness of earth. Earth feels really rugged right now. There are a lot of rough [...]
Good morning... What a privilege it is to be the Women's Ministry Director at Northside Church here in Atlanta. Since January of 2008, our Program Coordinator and I have been a well-balanced team seeking to connect women in our community to the power of our multi-faceted God. Every August, we announce our new classes for the fall semester. [...]
Good morning... "I asked the LORD what I should preach on today," said the pastor at the funeral. "I was led to a strange scripture - John 19:25." Mary, Jesus’ mother, was standing next to his cross, along with Mary’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. So when Jesus looked down and saw the disciple [...]
