Good morning... On our plane ride home I watched "Up", the 2009 computer-animated film produced by Pixar. One favorite movie clip sums up the lasting love we each hope for in our lifetime. This series of scenes reminds me of my husband and I as we enjoy the empty-nesting phase of life. It also spurs hope for our [...]
Good morning... "This meditation from yesterday really speaks to me, and I think it will speak to you too," she texted me yesterday after a really hard ten days. "Happy Saturday as I enjoy the lake and mountains before the boat traffic starts." ****** Love Is the Only Solution by Richard Rohr, July 22, 2022 Father Richard’s Franciscan [...]
Good morning... Many of you were drawn alongside me toward an astronomical shift we gleaned from yesterday's post, My Mom Is Home. "Behold. This is not a problem to be solved. This is a person to be loved." When we shift our focus off of the problem at hand and consider the person sitting right in front of [...]
Good morning... Opening the mail yesterday, I received a letter from my dad. As promised, he sent me a check from Ohio to support PAWkids, the non-profit ministry in inner city Atlanta with which I am actively involved. He sent a donation in honor of the three year old grandson of the Norwegian exchange student who stayed with [...]
Good morning... "A peacemaker prays," writes Henri Nouwen. "Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis, and the goal of all peacemaking. I say this without apology because it allows me to go straight to the heart of the matter, which is that peace is a divine [...]
Good morning... "It has been said that 90 percent of people seem to live 90 percent of their lives on cruise control, which is the unconscious," writes Richard Rohr on page 90 of Falling Upward. "The Holy Spirit is that aspect of God that works largely from within and 'secretly,' at 'the deepest levels of our desiring,' as [...]
Good morning... This week I had the privilege of meeting with both the founder and the current director of Grove Park Renewal, a non-profit which supports the need for affordable housing in downtown Atlanta. After an energizing conversation about important possibilities, one of the men handed out copies of a blog post he had read that morning. Now [...]
Good morning... A truckload of immigrants die in the heat. Loved ones are buried after mass shootings. Wars rage on and on, devastating ordinary lives. These are big newsworthy aches which beg for our prayers. Alongside our communal pain are quieter, daily challenges. Depression. Disabilities. Dementia. Divorce. Death. We all face various aches throughout our lifetime. Aches we [...]
Good morning... On our walk and talk last week, my friend earnestly asked, "Do you really believe it's true? Do you really believe Jesus lived, died and rose from the dead? How can we know that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is absolutely true?" Take a moment now. How might you, yourself, honestly answer my friend's candid question? [...]
Good morning... While on weekend retreat at Ignatius House Retreat Center, I happened upon a touching story. ****** Love Does That (by Meister Eckhart) All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only burros. And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting [...]
