Good morning... I wake early in deep prayer for my special friend. Today I support her, as she supports her husband, as he lays his father to final rest. After weeks of facing serious health challenges, her father-in-law went to heaven at age 85. My own dad turns 85 this week, and, as many of you know, my [...]
Good morning... This Good Friday morning, I wake on a cozy cot in the office of Kitty Crenshaw, co-author of The Hidden Life Awakened. Yesterday, a room full of us gathered at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida to share a meal of remembrance with the family and friends of Betty Skinner. Betty, the heroine of The [...]
Good morning... Up in the middle of the night, I explore various accounts of the skiing accident that took the life of 27-year-old Rad Spencer who grew up in our Atlanta community. Along with our oldest son and his Lovett friends, Rad and his buddies from Westminster went through confirmation, Sunday school, and youth group together. Celebrating his [...]
Good morning... At 2:00 pm today we will gather in the church sanctuary to celebrate Angie's life. How utterly impossible to sum up a whole vibrant lifetime in one touching hour. Reading Angie's obituary, I am struck by the expanse and the generosity of her love for others. How deeply she will be missed by so many left [...]
Good morning... "Very timely after reading your blog this morning," she texted after yesterday's post Depression: What NOT To Say. "A friend posted this today on Facebook," she wrote, sharing the story below. ****** It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and [...]
Good morning... Learning to care for loved ones who are struggling with depression, I deeply value the wisdom shared in chapter four in Parker Palmer's book Let Your Life Speak. On page 61, Parker candidly describes his own experience of being severely depressed in his forties. He helps us to know what NOT to say to our loved [...]
Good morning... One thing I love most about being a mom of four young adults is watching God-given gifts grow out of our kids. Our youngest son, Jeremiah, is a hands-on hard worker who is helping to pay his way through college. Lots of you have used his pressure washing services for the past three summers and others [...]
Good morning... Yesterday, I muted Gameday football to watch the funeral of a thirteen year old girl who died last week in a small engine plane crash at a nearby airport. Afterward, I sat in bed and quietly wept. How did each of her parents speak of their only child with such soulful eloquence? How did her pastor [...]
Good morning... Steve, my husband, heads up the chaplain team at The Lovett School, the school where two fathers of Lower School students died this week. I had just finished a long phone conversation with a close friend of one of the grieving wives when Steve pulled in the driveway that tragic day. "So did you hear?" Of [...]
Good morning... "This will be one of the most important days of your life," she said to her 10 year old son when he returned home from school on September 11th, 2001. Later that night she thought to herself, that was a stupid, terrible thing to say. The morning of September 12th, she apologized to her young son. [...]
