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Savor Sabbath: Opportunity Abounds
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Savor Sabbath: Opportunity Abounds

Community, Everyday life, God's Love, Healing, Sabbath

Savor Sabbath: Opportunity Abounds

Good morning... After crafting yesterday's post, We Live In Layers, I returned to my email and received this message from a dear friend: "Please consider helping my neighbor as she tries to rebuild her life from a devastating house fire on Wednesday night. https://www.gofundme.com/f/house-fire-recovery-for-dale-pierce-taylor?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet." As I read through her difficult story and scrolled through the list of "Go Fund [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-09-08T16:24:02-04:00September 8th, 2019|Community, Everyday life, God's Love, Healing, Sabbath|

We Live In Layers
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We Live In Layers

Community, Death And Resurrection, Everyday life, God's Plan, Human Nature

We Live In Layers

Good morning... There are so many different aspects of life, various layers of you, me, and us. Football and fantasies. Fighting and friendship. Fun, food, and family. Hurricanes and helpers. Heartache and healing. Hardness, hurriedness, and hopefulness. Wasteful and wonderful. Whining and wondering. Waiting, watching, and "What if?" Individually and collectively, we are a moving mass of living layers. Our daily [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-09-07T08:30:17-04:00September 7th, 2019|Community, Death And Resurrection, Everyday life, God's Plan, Human Nature|

Links To Hurricane Relief
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Links To Hurricane Relief

Community, God's Love, Healing, Heaven On Earth, Tragedy

Links To Hurricane Relief

Good morning... Wisdom lingers within me from yesterday's post, When We Feel Broken. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-09-05T10:28:35-04:00September 6th, 2019|Community, God's Love, Healing, Heaven On Earth, Tragedy|

When We Feel Broken
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When We Feel Broken

Community, Death And Resurrection, God's Plan, Healing

When We Feel Broken

Good morning... I find my mind lifting prayers for devastated Dorian victims in The Bahamas and those most vulnerable residents on our eastern shores. As a symbol of silent solidarity, yesterday I wore this necklace, reminding myself, "With God as our glue, we will heal whole together." Made with a stone I picked up on a Bahamian beach in [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-09-05T07:04:48-04:00September 5th, 2019|Community, Death And Resurrection, God's Plan, Healing|

How Can We Help?
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How Can We Help?

Community, God's Love, Tragedy, Trust God

How Can We Help?

Good morning... Before sophisticated, arial footage of the utter devastation in The Bahamas, "those victims" would have remained foreign, faceless, far away. What stays out of sight slips from our mind. What our eyes see our minds retain. What saturates our mind, our heart feels. What our heart feels moves our lips, our feet, our hands. I am [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-09-04T09:50:42-04:00September 4th, 2019|Community, God's Love, Tragedy, Trust God|

Cook Up Compassion
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Cook Up Compassion

Authenticity, Community, Everyday life, God's Love

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

We Each Play Our Part

Good morning... This Labor Day, we face hurricane horror, we grieve devastating loss, and we pray for God's endless love to bridge every gap living between us. My husband's chaplain message from last Monday came at a good time, as we all ask ourselves, "What part can I play in God's healing work in our hurting world?" Considering the [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-09-03T08:25:49-04:00September 2nd, 2019|Community, Everyday life, God's Love, Heaven On Earth, Light In Darkness|

Savor Sabbath: Labor Less
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Savor Sabbath: Labor Less

Community, God's Love, Sabbath, Trust God

Savor Sabbath: Labor Less

Good morning... As God's higher ways take hold of our lives, we labor less as God lavishly loves. Savoring this Sabbath, allow the Spirit of our living LORD to draw you back to the deep wisdom bonding us this week. Touch the button below to review our past posts. One hand full of rest and patience is better [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-08-31T06:19:30-04:00September 1st, 2019|Community, God's Love, Sabbath, Trust God|

Making Peace With Suicide
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Making Peace With Suicide

Community, God's Love, Grief, Healing, Suicide

Making Peace With Suicide

Good morning... I woke to her email, short and deep. I wrote her right back, deep and long. Somehow God ministered to both of us as we unpacked our pain. Sharing just my private response, I invite you into our intimate expression. ****** Personal Email from Sue Allen - August 30th, 2019 Another suicide? Yes, it is completely [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-08-30T08:13:28-04:00August 30th, 2019|Community, God's Love, Grief, Healing, Suicide|

Another Suicide?
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Another Suicide?

Community, Healing, Sadness, Suicide, Tragedy

Another Suicide?

Good morning... "Sweet Sue," a mom wrote to me yesterday. "While I absolutely related to yesterday’s post very well, today’s title got me right in the gut. I really didn’t have to read anymore. Your timing. God’s timing. My son was in the Greek Village yesterday at the University of South Carolina when the student who took his [...]

By Sue Allen|2019-08-29T04:11:46-04:00August 29th, 2019|Community, Healing, Sadness, Suicide, Tragedy|