Good morning... Yesterday, I enjoyed the privilege of attending the Kitchen Cura graduation at the Ignatius House Retreat Center. Kitchen Cura is a six month culinary internship program which empowers individuals recovering from addiction and homelessness by teaching scratch-cooking, developing knife skills, and mastering the ability to host nutritious meals in hopes of building hospitality careers. The participants [...]
Good morning... One line from yesterday's poem returns to me now. Even when lost in the dark of the woods, no clear path to follow, we reach to each other... A friend reached out to me this week, sharing a devotional message. "I love this this morning," she texted, simply. ****** At the Crossroads God’s Message yet again: [...]
Good morning... In yesterday's post, I shared this gorgeous photo sent earlier in the week by a friend, a picture of the crescent moon resting close to a planet in the dark of night. I finished my two hours of blogging then headed back to bed for my second sleep. Unfortunately, I was woken up early to take [...]
Good morning... I discover the image above and am drawn in by the quiet quote. "Letting go will teach you the art of being soft and humble, yet powerful and free." Researching the unfamiliar author, I google, "Who is Alexandra Vasiliu?" An intriguing description pours forth. "Alexandra Vasiliu is an inspirational poet and the best-selling author of Dare [...]
Good morning... In Waking Up to This Day, Paula D'Arcy shares transformative truth: "Catherine of Siena writes, 'My deepest me is God.'" (16) "When we see something as it is, the breaking of the shell begins," Paula explains. "My friend Flynn reflects, 'Even to look at an iris and think, "Such a beautiful flower," is already expressing an [...]
Good morning... Two people sent me Richard Rohr meditations on the same morning this week. When something repeats itself, it tends to get my attention. At the end of the devotional, Rohr shared this childlike depiction of how grace works. In her autobiography Story of a Soul, Thérèse tells a story of standing at the bottom of the [...]
Good morning... "A lady gave this to us at the market this morning," a friend texted on Saturday. "I absolutely love it! So good right? So simple and yet something I had never really thought of." "I love it too," I replied. "Listening to God requires W.A.I.T.ing, asking ourselves, "Why am I talking, trying too hard, terriblizing? We [...]
Good morning... Waking in the middle of the night, the light on our bathroom floor whispers, "Sue, remember, it's night one of this full moon cycle." So I walk barefoot out into the night and looked up to see the moon shining brightly over our jagged roofline. In our [...]
Good morning... From page 16 of Waking Up to This Day by Paula D'Arcy, we savored this sentence together. "Catherine of Siena writes, 'My deepest me is God.'" (Pause. Now. Really think about that. "My deepest me is God.") Then we moved to the next page and read aloud a powerful paragraph. "It's as if each of us [...]
Good morning... Yesterday afternoon, we happily gathered for our first monthly class of this new semester. Amidst our great discussion, we read aloud from page 24 in A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson. "...one motif occurs again and again," wrote Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. "A traveler loses his way in the forest; it it [...]
