Good morning... After teaching our Zoom class in the cozy quiet of our newly decorated church parlor, I packed up my candle and laptop, I gathered my phone and purple notebook, and, after talking with a few friends on the staff, I walked out into the brick courtyard on the way to our car. Just outside the door, [...]
Good morning... On January 7th I received a very fun email: "We have a precious senior in high school who, for the past few years, raises money to purchase roses and Godiva chocolates and delivers them to our homebound church members for Valentine’s Day," wrote a friend from the Pastoral Care department at Northside Church. "It is an [...]
Good morning... Last Saturday Steve borrowed a tux, and we thoroughly enjoyed a highly anticipated black tie wedding with longtime friends. The dynamic wedded couple, who had dated diligently for over a decade, will now enjoy many, many more decades growing together in oneness with God and each other. The joyful wedding video from last Saturday is not [...]
Good morning... We are each a strange mixture of sometimes selfish, sometimes kind, sometimes building up, sometimes tearing down, sometimes annoyingly anxious and sometimes exuding peace. Each human heart is a many-faceted thing. We influence others as we are gradually transformed by God. Whenever our hearts make us feel guilty and remind us of our failures, we know [...]
Good morning... As I was searching for a simple way to bring to life the first three chapters of Genesis, I ran into this really cool rendition of two artists' expression of Genesis 3. God also drew me to Luke 7:40-47 in the Message translation to balance our bad debt with God's abundant goodness. Up from our common [...]
Good morning... For those who have followed our everyday blog for a while, you know I love my dear friend Betty Skinner. Betty and I first met through the pages of the sacred book chronicling her spiritual journey, The Hidden Life Awakened by Kitty Crenshaw and Dr. Cathy Snapp. The story of God meeting Betty very intimately in [...]
Good morning... We deepen down into the statement, "When we emerge from this global pandemic, we will be either a drunk, a hunk, a chunk or a monk!" Do we see the two-sided invitation of each temporary state? The drunk may be driven to surrender, craving an intimate connection to our Higher Power. The hunk may get caught [...]
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... "God speaks through repetition," said the subject in her email following yesterday's post Living The Dream. "What is it God is telling me about seed-planting???" she asked rhetorically. "When I finished reading your words from today, this was my devotion in my bible reading plan. Love it." ****** Matthew 13:18-35 in “The Bible in One Year [...]
Good morning... Watching the footage of yesterday's siege on the U.S. Capitol building, our youngest son asked, "If I have kids, do you think images from this day will be in their history books?" We agreed that we were watching history in the making. Reconvening after the violence, leaders in the House and the Senate were each given [...]
