Good morning... I woke on Thanksgiving morn with this inspiring meditation blessing my inbox. Community Makes God Visible by Henri Nouwen, November 27th, 2020 Nothing is sweet or easy about community. Community is a fellowship of people who do not hide their joys and sorrows but make them visible to each other as a gesture of hope. In [...]
Good morning... "I am loved, I am loved by You," this chorus rises up repeatedly within me. Now it's your turn to check out the music video below, which depicts for me the kingdom of heaven on earth. If all of these unique people, the men and the women, the black and the white, the young and the [...]
Good morning... "Double sunrise in Japan." My mind woke in a haze with this strange phrase, then I drifted back into my second segment of sleep. Waking for the day, I remembered those four words, "Double sunrise in Japan." Somehow it seemed centered on a celebration of sorts? So my curiosity did what it so often does, I [...]
Good morning... My husband and I watched a couple taking engagement photos on the beach. The rising sun peaked out of the clouds. The waves ebbed and flowed in sync. The perfect dreams of these young strangers were played themselves out before our eyes. Thinking back to the day before, Steve had performed a wedding for another beautiful [...]
Good morning... As I walked to the beach hoping for a photo shoot with the rising sun, I thought, "It's so dark and there are so many thick clouds, I am not sure I will be able to see the sun rise on this day." As the first sliver of the sun peaked through the horizon, [...]
Good morning... Waking this morning at 3:24 am, I google "When is sunrise in Palm Beach, Florida?" The answer is "6:40 am." For three delightful hours, I will enjoy silence and solitude with God on this Sabbath morn before I walk out to the sand and do a photo shoot on my phone with the rising sun. Why [...]
Good morning... After a stormy night a few weeks back, I went into our back yard to survey the debris, the fallen limbs, the messy leaves. What caught my attention was a huge spider web delicately hanging mid-air. I walked over to observe more closely the spider constructing her web. Active. Intricate. Diligently working. The small [...]
Good morning... "Your picture with the Lauren Daigle video made me think of this," she wrote. "I keep this on my mirror. We are definitely on the same wavelength." I’m thanking you, God, out loud in the streets, singing your praises in town and country. The deeper your love, the higher it goes; every cloud is [...]
Good morning... "Good morning Sue," she wrote last week. "I want to highly recommend this book by Scott Sauls, The Gentle Answer. He writes: 'Jesus and Christianity do not discriminate between good people and bad people. Instead, Jesus and Christianity discriminate between humble people and proud people. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James [...]
Good morning... Sipping our morning coffee, we taste our half and half. Half sad. Half happy. Half mad. Half relieved. Half scared. Half excited. Only our Three-in-One God can embrace each half and make us whole. Now may the Lord Jesus Christ and our Father God, who loved us and in his wonderful grace gave us eternal comfort [...]
