Good morning... The morning after my husband and I returned as Julie's Dream chaperones from a week-long trip to Maine with kids and staff from PAWkids, a friend sent me the follow text: "I hope you saw this. So wonderful!!!!" I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article about the uplifting work of LaTonya Gates, community leader and [...]
Good morning... "Thank you for posting the music video of I'll Walk Through the Valley," my friend wrote after yesterday's blog post. "It's so hard to watch Ginny Owens sing this song, but so healing too. This song got Eliza through so many dark days - along with Psalm 23." As we step forward into this new day, [...]
Good morning... I have been slowly walking beside a grieving friend as God tenderly cares for her faithful family flock. Today we will celebrate together the life of one special twenty-eight year old woman, a vibrant young woman who has shared God's living light with so many in our community. As God prepares my heart to walk in [...]
Good morning... Last night we experienced a feast of friendship as over twenty women in our Atlanta community gathered together, deepening down into the healthy root system connecting Bankhead and Buckhead. Women, older and younger. Skin, darker and lighter. People, barely surviving and ultimately thriving. Enjoying fun foods and delicious drinks, we shared stories of great struggle and [...]
Good morning... "Sue," he emailed me, "isn’t it wonderful that as Christians, it is Easter every day? Enjoy, dear friend!" And he sent me this incredible music video below. Now it is your turn, "Enjoy, dear friend!" Jesus said: "I am the resurrection and the source of all life; those who believe in Me will live even in [...]
Good morning... My oldest daughter chose to give up social media for Lent. "Welcome to my world," I said, "it's peacefully wonderful." I don't twitter or tweeter, "snap a chat," "inst a gram" or "face a book," but I do love when friends send me nourishing nuggets. That's what happened on February 28th, 2021. The image above came [...]
Good morning... Weeding through our overgrown ivy a few weekends back, I uncovered an old gift. This stained, clay square reads, "A garden of friends is always in bloom." On my fifty-eighth birthday, I sense this is true. Just as flowering occurs naturally in the garden, to my quiet amazement friendships bloom beautifully. Investing time together may cultivate [...]
Good morning... This morning, I have no idea why my computer returned itself to emails from this very same week five years ago. Back then, a subscriber to our everyday blog had sent me the photo above from her back yard in Florida. In retrospect, now I realize I felt much like the silhouette of this lone little [...]
Good morning... "Parked at a local church, I found my car window shattered," remembers my dear friend Corinne Adams. "I was distraught…until I saw the beauty of the broken glass. I knew I had to take it home. Slowly and surely, the little glass nuggets made their way into cuffs, pendants, belt buckles, rings and earrings. These unique [...]
Good morning... "I really don't want 2020 to end," she said quietly as we talked in her garage, protected from the drizzly rain. "2020 will always be the last year my husband was alive." Her deep sorrow is not alone. For many of us, 2020 is the last year our spouse or our parent, our friend or our [...]
