One Month Ago

Good morning... One month ago today, I filled our car with generously donated items and drove the requested "snacks and drinks" to PAWkids for New Year's Eve. Homemade cupcakes, cookies, and oatmeal packets. Waters, juices, cocoa mix and milk. Chips, protein bars, and paper goods. The day before, I had also made a big batch of homemade turkey/vegetable [...]

By |2022-01-31T08:50:56-05:00January 31st, 2022|Abundance, Community, God's Love|

A Grandparent’s Grief

Good morning... In our post We Need Friends, I shared about our grieving friend who lost her first grandchild to a miscarriage. "Oh my!" one reader wrote from South Carolina. "God is surely speaking in stereo AGAIN. My heart hurt and my eyes pricked with tears this morning when I read about your class participant’s loss. In 2012 [...]

By |2022-01-24T06:31:00-05:00January 24th, 2022|Friendship, God's Love, Grief|

Remembering Julie

Good morning... I wake early this morning, remembering Julie. Julie Harlan, a dear friend, was a longtime member of our Friday morning class and a committed attender of our young moms' studies at Northside Church. Julie was humble and faithful, a prayer warrior extraordinaire. Shockingly diagnosed with stomach cancer at age forty-one, Julie battled through harsh treatments for [...]

By |2022-01-22T10:52:09-05:00January 22nd, 2022|Community, God's Love, Organic Growth|

We Need Friends

Good morning... This morning around 10:30 am, women on our Friday morning roster will walk down the sidewalk to the left of our home, pass through our wooden gate and into the warmth of our cozy basement. We will begin our deep dive into Paula D'Arcy's Sacred Threshold: Crossing the Inner Barrier to Deeper Love. Our class has [...]

By |2022-01-21T09:00:53-05:00January 21st, 2022|Community, Friendship, God's Love|

Finding The Will To Live

Good morning... "I love your post today!" she wrote yesterday after experiencing our morning message Just Show Love. "I posted one of your quotes to my Instagram. So cool. God is really talking through you these days!" Look at God's love shining through my creative friend. As I have told you before, I do not Instagram, [...]

By |2022-01-20T08:35:46-05:00January 20th, 2022|Depression, God's Love, Light In Darkness|

Just Show Love

Good morning... After pushing through our post Pregnant With Worry, around 2:15 pm yesterday little Lucy breathed her first breath. She now joins her family and friends on the adventure of her lifetime. I was overjoyed to receive the birth texts and first photos shared with loved ones. When it comes to parenting newborns and toddlers, "Retrospect is [...]

By |2022-01-20T07:54:52-05:00January 19th, 2022|Anxiety, Depression, God's Love|

Pregnant With Worry

Good morning... On January 6th, 2022, the Spirit of God spurred me to write an email to a pregnant young mom in our church family. As her due date came closer my regular prayers for her intensified, giving birth to the email exchange I share with you now. "Hello there," I wrote, and the following words tumbled onto [...]

By |2022-01-18T09:38:12-05:00January 18th, 2022|Anxiety, God's Love, Mystery|

This Morning’s Funeral

Good morning... He was in my youngest daughter's high school graduating class. She's now twenty-two, he, twenty-three. This morning we will go to his funeral at the school where the kids attended and both of his parents have taught for years. As friend, colleague and school chaplain, my husband will officiate while I am quietly present, bearing witness [...]

By |2022-01-08T09:45:23-05:00January 8th, 2022|God's Love, Grief, Light In Darkness|

In Anxious And Fearful Times

Good morning... "Dear Sue," she emailed me yesterday. "I think today was a God moment as I read Henri Nouwen's post Know that You Are Welcome and then moved on to your message, You Are Welcome Here. As we emailed back and forth, I shared that I was also so surprised by the synchronicity of the Spirit. After [...]

By |2022-01-06T03:38:02-05:00January 6th, 2022|Anxiety, Everyday life, God's Love|

You Are Welcome Here

Good morning... "Your post about 'Welcoming Spirt' made me think of this song," she texted. "We sing it frequently at church. Anyway, many different versions but, regardless of who sings it, the words are so powerful." When I had a quiet moment I thoroughly enjoyed Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes singing live the song Holy Spirit. Then I [...]

By |2022-01-05T10:14:27-05:00January 5th, 2022|Everyday life, God's Love, Holy Spirit|
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