Good morning... I am up in the wee hours of the night pondering this quote shared by a friend: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." The Spirit now draws me to a prayer, a prayer to enhance the art of going far together. ****** "A Blessing Prayer" by [...]
Good morning... In researching the concept of radical empathy, I ran into the video below, a captivating video which puts flesh on the bones of a refreshing idea. This Sabbath morn, please enjoy this short video and wonder with God, "How might I be an integral part of Your healing solution?" My child, never drift off course from [...]
Good morning... "This poem plays beautifully with your post about radical empathy," she wrote. Remember? Radical empathy is "actively striving to better understand and share the feelings of others. To fundamentally change our perspectives from judgmental to accepting, in an attempt to more authentically connect with ourselves and others." I agree with my friend. This powerful poem plays [...]
Good morning... In yesterday's blog post, How To Avoid Burnout, together we witnessed the loving voice of God captured on my cell phone. As the day progressed, I was also able to witness the love of God caught wearing fur. My friend's year old puppy loves his momma dearly. To keep him company while she visited with her [...]
Good morning... In the past fourteen hours, God's voice was captured on my phone again and again and again. I will share with you three random-seeming text strings, and you too will witness the LORD's loving presence at work among us. Text string Number One - 7:36 pm. "I have been noticing for the first time these big [...]
Good morning... After yesterday's blog post, Claim This First Love, a dear friend sent me Richard Rohr's morning meditation for the same day, April 6th. It is as if Rohr is singing to us the next stanza in God's endless love song. ****** Love Revealed by Richard Rohr Julian of Norwich... teaches us that God’s love has nothing [...]
Good morning... "The spiritual life starts at the place where you can hear God’s voice," says the Henri Nouwen meditation from yesterday. "Where somehow you can claim that long before your father, your mother, your brother, your sister, your school, your church touched you, loved you, and wounded you—long before that, you were held safe in an eternal [...]
Good morning... Waking this Easter Monday morning, I wonder, "What does it really look like for Christ to live in us?" In the quiet of these early hours, my mind is drawn back to a letter I received on Saturday from the leader of our Disaster Response Team from church. A lightbulb goes on right now: "This is [...]
Good morning... "Unless the Eternal builds the house, those who labor to raise it will have worked for nothing," over the phone my friend quoted Psalm 127:1-2 (VOICE). Her gentle voice continued: "Unless the Eternal stands watch over the city, those who guard it have wasted their time." "God provides for His own," she encouraged. "It is pointless [...]
Good morning... Yesterday I celebrated the spring equinox in a very meaningful way. The word equinox comes from Latin, meaning "equality of night and day." Experiencing a balanced amount of light and darkness, our long winter officially tipped into spring 2021. Leaving the house at 6:45 am before the sun rose and not returning home until 8:45 pm [...]
