Good morning... "I think of you at sunrise," she said on yesterday's walk and talk. "Did you see the sky this morning?" Actually, I had not. I had written our blog post from 3:30 to 6:40 am, so by then I was one tired Tigger. I peeked at the pre-dawn sky, sensing it would be a good one, [...]
Good morning... How will homebound kids bounce back from nearly a year of remote learning? How will the economy bounce back after its nosedive? How will hurting families bounce back from the loss of loved ones, unemployment, and food/housing insecurity? How will our churches bounce back into regular attendance? How will our communities bounce back after conflict, division, [...]
Good morning... After teaching our Zoom class in the cozy quiet of our newly decorated church parlor, I packed up my candle and laptop, I gathered my phone and purple notebook, and, after talking with a few friends on the staff, I walked out into the brick courtyard on the way to our car. Just outside the door, [...]
Good morning... Last night as we watched the Super Bowl with our small group from church, we enjoyed the always entertaining commercials. One clever commercial involved a hilarious Jason Alexander hoodie. Another "Let's grab a beer" commercial reminded us that it has never been about the beer, it's about being together. With the return of Wayne's World, Wayne, [...]
Good morning... A dear friend reconnected me to an old quote I adore from When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd: "What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What [...]
Good morning... As it wakes to a new day, sometimes the sky above our backyard looks like the photo I took last week. Unique colors are exquisitely well defined. Breathtaking beauty is shockingly undeniable. Joy, hope, peace feel boldly embodied. This morning the sky caught my eye for a totally different reason. When I stepped out onto our [...]
Good morning... "My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going," she read a Thomas Merton quote over the phone to end our monthly Julie's Dream prayer meeting. "I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that [...]
Good morning... "For me, the word cancer is interchangeable with the word life," a wise, wise woman taught her daughter before leaving earth for heaven. This daughter happens to be one my good friends. Since today, February 4th, is World Cancer Day, I reached out to my friend to further unwrap the gift of her mom's unusual statement. [...]
Good morning... "...refreshing to find this in our bed n breakfast information book in Cedar Key, Florida...this evening...so sweet," a loyal subscriber wrote me last night. ****** DANCING WITH GOD When I meditated on the word GUIDANCE, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God’s will is a lot like [...]
Good morning... "Spiritual reading is not only reading about spiritual people or spiritual things," I quietly read Henri Nouwen's insights aloud to our Zoom class. "It is also reading spiritually, that is, in a spiritual way! Reading in a spiritual way is reading with a desire to let God come closer to us." "The purpose of spiritual reading [...]
