A Prayer For Elizabeth

Good morning... Up in the middle of this late June night, I water our thirsty plants and I take pictures of the waning moon. At age 39, at home in the care of hospice, saturated with the love of family and friends, the vibrant life of Elizabeth is also waning away from this world. [...]

By |2024-06-27T04:27:24-04:00June 27th, 2024|Death And Resurrection, Family and Friends, Prayer, Trust God|

Our Fight For Life

Good morning... "Hi, Sue," he wrote this week. "I hope all is well with you and your family." "I also hope everyone will take a moment on Monday to reflect on the Americans who died in the service of their country," he continued. "Memorial Day is a wonderful time to get together with family and friends; but more [...]

By |2024-05-27T09:54:28-04:00May 27th, 2024|Death And Resurrection, Everyday life, Loss, Trust God|

Beth Lives On

Good morning... Yesterday, in the early morning hours, the Spirit nudged me to blog about the inspiration of our dear friend, Beth Jordan. Beth died in the fall of 2017, after thriving through brain cancer for eight fertile years. Throughout the day, many texts and emails came in recounting the joy of journeying with this big-hearted, tiny woman. [...]

By |2024-04-20T09:41:54-04:00April 20th, 2024|Abundance, Death And Resurrection, God's Timing, Organic Growth|

Remember Beth Jordan?

Good morning... When I wrote the word "tandem" in yesterday's post, my thoughts were drawn back to an inspiring talk given by our dear friend, Beth Jordan. Beth went to heaven on October 11, 2017 after living fully with brain cancer through eight courageous years. (You may want to revisit her obituary.) I vividly remember one special evening [...]

By |2024-04-19T07:39:29-04:00April 19th, 2024|Aging, Death And Resurrection, Everyday life, Trust God|

Everything, Everything Changes

Good morning... "Here's another reminder of our 'seed' analogies in our reading lately," texted a friend, sharing the image above. I love the organic wisdom revealed. As we continue to explore our spiritual growth into Christlikeness, as measured by an ancient personality tool called the Enneagram, might we embody the "seed" quote by Cynthia Occellia? "For my true, [...]

By |2024-04-12T01:13:03-04:00April 11th, 2024|Death And Resurrection, God's Timing, Organic Growth|

My Heart Feels Broken

Good morning... On Monday during the wee hours of the morning, I posted a Scripture referring to "all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe." Then on Tuesday night when I woke to write, our website was weirdly "broken." Unable to craft a blog message, yesterday our written word community went without. Later in the day, with the [...]

By |2024-04-03T02:09:07-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Community, Death And Resurrection, Everyday life, Trust God|

Is The Tomb A Womb?

Good morning... In the dark of this night, I feel drawn to page 154 in one of my favorite books, When the Heart Waits, by Sue Monk Kidd. I return to the section entitled EASTERING. Midway through the next page I read: "My thoughts about Jesus waiting in the tomb for Easter began to blend with the thoughts [...]

By |2024-03-30T06:56:11-04:00March 30th, 2024|Death And Resurrection, Transformation, True Self|

A Gift On Good Friday

Good morning... I brought two good friends with me to the Maundy Thursday service at Northside Church yesterday. After reading about Jesus serving his first communion at the Last Supper (Luke 22:14-23) and his painful struggle to surrender to the will of God in the Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:39-53), we were all invited to kneel at the [...]

By |2024-03-29T01:56:39-04:00March 29th, 2024|Death And Resurrection, God's Love, Light In Darkness, Mystery|

Two Moms Went To Heaven

Good morning... Over the past several months, we have prayed diligently for my mom to pull through surgery after surgery and, gratefully, she is now slowly healing at home with my dad. At the same time, two other friends have said "goodbye" to their mothers on earth, releasing them to God's eternal care in the home of heaven. [...]

By |2024-02-29T11:52:03-05:00February 29th, 2024|Death And Resurrection, God's Timing, Heaven On Earth|

A White Feather From Heaven

Good morning... "Another minute. Another day. Year after year. Life lives through us. What an incredible gift." I had just finished reading these final words from our Saturday morning blog post, We Live Through Death. The message shared a moving poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer entitled Still Here. Suddenly, I felt a prick on my left arm, and, [...]

By |2024-02-19T06:25:22-05:00February 19th, 2024|Death And Resurrection, Heaven On Earth, Holy Spirit, Mystery|
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