Simplify. Shine Light.

Good morning... What Is Your Star Word? we asked in yesterday's post, a single word guiding you into the living presence of the Christ child, Emmanuel, God-with-us. For 2026, my star word is SIMPLIFY. The Dictionary.com definition reads: "to make less complicated, clearer, or easier." Clarify. Cut down. Reduce. Shorten. Streamline. SIMPLIFY. We live in a complicated world [...]

By |2026-01-08T04:27:41-05:00January 8th, 2026|Discernment, Everyday life, God's Word, Light In Darkness, Unity|

We Experience Epiphany

Good morning... On January 6th, on the twelfth day of Christmas, Epiphany is celebrated annually. Epiphany commemorates the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child and the revelation of God the Son experienced as a human being. We read the story at church on Sunday. As I revisit Matthew 2:1-12, here are the verses that stand out [...]

By |2026-01-06T03:34:03-05:00January 6th, 2026|Everyday life, Light In Darkness, Mystery, Spiritual Gifts, Trust God|

I Didn’t Get Much Done

Good morning... I met a poem this weekend that whispered to me about the consistency of life, year by year by year. Our high hopes are laid to rest in the soil of our common ground, and the low lows are lifted up as fodder for our creative connection. ****** "This was the year that was not the [...]

By |2026-01-05T10:02:35-05:00January 5th, 2026|Everyday life, God's Plan, Light In Darkness, Mystery, New From Old|

Prayer For A New Year

Good morning... This week, a friend from our Sunday afternoon group sent us a prayer written by Howard Thurman (November 18, 1899 – April 10, 1981). We, as a group, read Thurman's influential book Jesus and the Disinherited a few semesters back. Howard Thurman's theology of radical nonviolence has shaped the faith life of generations, and he was [...]

By |2026-01-03T08:30:16-05:00January 3rd, 2026|Everyday life, Light In Darkness, New From Old, Prayer, Trust God|

2025 Thank. 2026 Trust.

Good morning... As the first light of the new year crept through the slots in our bathroom shutters, I sensed the moon growing pregnant with full potential. Sure enough. The Wolf Supermoon (Wolf named for howling wolves in winter and Supermoon because it coincides with the Moon's closest point to Earth, appearing larger and brighter) will occur on [...]

By |2026-01-02T06:15:02-05:00January 2nd, 2026|Discernment, Everyday life, Gratitude, Light In Darkness, Trust God|

New Phases Of Growth

Good morning... Happy New Year! There is no better way to recognize new phases of growth than to remember where we were while celebrating where we are. Two photos, set side by side, tell the story of natural, unstoppable growth. One is from October; the other was taken last night just after the ball dropped in Time Square. [...]

By |2026-01-01T05:29:03-05:00January 1st, 2026|Aging, Everyday life, God's Love, New From Old, Organic Growth, Trust God|

10yrs Blogging Daily

Good morning... As this fall semester comes to an end before our winter/spring semester begins, it dawns on me that I have been blogging most days since the fall of 2015. Ten years of waking in the wee hours, opening up two-way-street veins of private prayer, seeking to discern the presence, the patterns, the power of our living [...]

By |2025-12-31T04:57:54-05:00December 31st, 2025|Community, Everyday life, God's Word, New From Old, Organic Growth|

Give A Gratitude Gift?

Good morning... Yesterday's blog post included one of my favorite Bible verses. Before leaving earth for heaven, Jesus told his followers, "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8, NIV). I [...]

By |2025-12-30T02:01:50-05:00December 30th, 2025|Everyday life, Gratitude, Holy Spirit, Organic Growth, Trust God|

He Lives Among Us

Good morning... After waking from my second sleep, I re-read our post crafted in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Born To Be With Us. Our blog ended with this truth: "Amid all of the tremendous tragedies we face along our journey, from life through death into eternal life with God, Jesus was born to be beside us." [...]

By |2025-12-29T08:12:48-05:00December 29th, 2025|Everyday life, Holy Spirit, Tragedy, Trust God, Unity|

Born To Be Beside Us

Good morning... In a constant state of amazing love, the vulnerable baby Jesus was born to be beside us. God, in human skin, was born to be beside us as we journey throughout this treacherous life. On Christmas Eve at Northside Church, as I served during the final two worship services, I was asked personally to pray for [...]

By |2025-12-27T02:37:33-05:00December 27th, 2025|Everyday life, God's Love, God's Plan, Healing, Jesus Christ|
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