Good afternoon... Like me, you have probably seen yesterday's haunting image of the migrant dad with his toddler daughter tucked beneath his shirt, laying dead on the shore, after trying to swim to freedom in America. Tragic. Disturbing. Gut-Wrenching. But what can I do in Atlanta about this humanitarian crisis on our border? Then I watched America's Got [...]
Good morning... "There is a difference between being driven and being drawn," she said at the end of yesterday's phone conversation. Intrigued by the crossroads of these two words, I jotted her concluding statement in my journal, returning to her wisdom when I woke around 2:00 am. Around 3:30 am, I climbed back into bed, sensing God's message [...]
Good morning... At our Writers' Group gathering this week, we enjoyed a delightful dinner together under outdoor ceiling fans. When it was my time to share, I heard myself say, "Well, the big thing for me is that God has changed my heart as a writer." Meeting one year ago in the final week of May, everyone in the [...]
Good morning... We live in the now and are moving into the future. How do we find balance in this precarious position, being here while going there? In yesterday's post, Amid The Mayhem Of May, we learned one important truth: we humans are not equipped to know, to see, or to understand the intricate work of God, the [...]
Good morning... In the cozy gray comfort of everyday life, I love the way God's light shines on our bathtub around 5:00 pm, evening after evening. Earlier in the week, I snapped this photo before heading to a friend's home to be with the grieving husband of a girlfriend who had died of cancer last month. To remind a [...]
Good morning... After being moved by yesterday's quote, we asked a helper to run six copies, one for each of us to take home. On the copied page lived another set of wise words, words written by Frank Laubach (1884-1970) in Letters by a Modern Mystic. "I feel simply carried along each hour," writes Laubach, "doing my part [...]
Good morning... "Beneath or inside the life we lead every day is another life," says the John Tarrant quote in the notes I borrowed from our 93-year-old friend, Christian mystic Betty Skinner. For years Betty used these notes to facilitate spiritual retreats on the Enneagram, the ancient study of the nine basic types of people. Now as I [...]
Good morning... Our Saturday breakdown in communication really had no rhyme and no reason. I checked everything I knew to check and found no sign of why we got "Oops. This Page Could Not Be Found!" instead of our post "So It Was With Marian." In my life "no rhyme or reason" usually has God's fingerprints all over it, [...]
Good morning... In the early morning darkness, I quietly unravel more. My soul skips back to that verb from yesterday's post. "Unravel" piques my interest, so I google her definition on Dictionary.com to disentangle her many facets. clear up resolve disclose explain sort out unriddle To separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a [...]
Good morning... "Good morning Sue," she emailed me yesterday from Jacksonville, Florida. "Our hearts are in stereo again with the same verse. I shared 2 Corinthians 8:9 with my group of 7th grade girls on Tuesday." Remember? This is the same verse concluding our blog post yesterday. For you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more strongly [...]
