Good morning... Many of us admire the raw honesty shared by Savannah Guthrie in her Easter message to the world, a message highlighted in yesterday's blog, Savannah's Deep Sorrow. Following the unsolved abduction of her 84-year-old mother, Savannah is waiting in the MEAN time of not knowing, not understanding, not having the answers she craves. "Wow, wow, wow!" [...]
Good morning... "Happy Easter," Jennifer DeShelter texted yesterday, sharing a photo taken with her son and husband outside of Northside Church. "Missing our Audrey from last year." (As you likely remember, Audrey went to heaven in June, just ten hours before her 20th birthday.) "I love both of your Easter pictures," [...]
Good morning... "Love this as a reminder from all our conversations," she texted yesterday, sharing the simple chart above. When we feel rushed, pushed, frightened, confused, worried, obsessed, or condemned, it is wise to remember, "This is not the voice of God." Instead, God's voice stills us, leads us, reassures us, enlightens us, encourages us, comforts us, and [...]
Good morning... As the moonlight waxing on our bathroom floor silently adds more and more and more, I revisit the words we read aloud in class. ****** Excerpt from the introduction to the 25th anniversary edition of Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer A few years ago, I woke up one morning with a line running through my [...]
Good morning... We began our monthly spiritual growth group with this Thomas Keating quote in mind. "The spiritual journey does not require going anywhere because God is already with us and in us." We can lie in bed, quietly recovering. God is already with us and in us. We can stay home, because it just feels right. God [...]
Good morning... "You asked me this morning what did I remember most about my cancer journey," she emailed me yesterday. "Through all the pain, anguish, and unknowing answers with cancer, this cruel disease has many benefits," she explained. "It was probably, no it was, my closest time with God. I could not have visitors. I could not go [...]
Good morning... She wrote me a simple email yesterday: "iAmSon's 'Slow Down' song came to mind again, today, after your post. Enjoy!" I had never heard the song before, so searched for it on YouTube. It's quirky, with a choppy, methodic rhythm, the rhythm of bare feet slowly walking. I thoroughly enjoyed the lyrics and the music video, [...]
Good morning... After reading our blog post entitled Journeying With Cancer, a friend pulled out the words above. "This paragraph especially 'spoke' to me today," she wrote, "when I'm feeling frustrated with not being able to 'keep up' with my own expectations." Within the hour, another friend texted me the image below. [...]
Good morning... In class yesterday, we continued to unpack the concept of kindness, one of the fruits of God's Spirit alive in our hearts. We agreed, in the face of so much worldly unrest - polarization, violence, despair - there is one thing we all can do, each moment of every day. We can take a deep breath [...]
Good morning... "Sue," she texted yesterday. "It struck me in your speaking about kindness in this morning's blog - I wonder if you have seen the billboards with Dolly Parton. As I was driving back from the beach there was a horrendously congested intersection of construction - with long lines of cars and trucks - everyone doing their [...]
