Good morning... After driving nine hours toward home from Pennsylvania, we stopped in North Carolina to visit our oldest best friends. With ease, we talked about everything that came to mind; how wonderful to feel truly seen, known, and loved. After our long dinner and our soulful discussion, we went to bed. Being the first to wake around [...]
Good morning... This week, we have been considering the three simple rules which will change our world. First we commit to "Do No Harm." In practical ways, what might this look like? I just met a story that helps me understand more clearly the transformational love of God. ****** Transitions by Paula D'Arcy In the 1990s, I heard [...]
Good morning... Purple is the common ground created when red, white, and blue are combined with loving care. Purple taps into God's guiding power, creative, cooperative, collaborative. As I was pondering these thoughts, I was surprised to find and to follow an actual path in the woods clearly marked by purple blazes. On page 26, we pick up [...]
Good morning... As I walked the back roads of rural Pennsylvania, flags were everywhere. Red. White. Blue. Everywhere. It dawned on me that something new is created as we melt together the distinct colors of these manmade symbols. Red. White. Blue. Blended, these different shades become purple. I [...]
Good morning... She emailed me after yesterday's post, Imagine Something Better. "So crazy, Sue," she wrote, "my husband and I were having a similar conversation yesterday over coffee after I mentioned a quote I’d recently read that said in previous generations people used to naturally seek and focus on what we have in common with one another, but [...]
Good morning... "I shared this on Facebook on Wednesday," emailed a longtime friend. ****** For those facing loss today . . LOVE CAME FIRST "You don’t move on after loss, but you must move with. You must shake hands with grief, welcome her in, for she lives with you now. Pull her a chair at the table and [...]
Good morning... "Oh Sue," she wrote from Florida yesterday, "sending so many continued prayers for the loved ones of Elizabeth. So very heartbreaking. I just read Dr. Jim Denison, and the quote below struck a chord - we live a faith that says death is not the final answer, thank you Jesus. This truth is the hope and [...]
Good morning... My friend's text came in at 3:09 am. Now it's 4:04. Whatever I thought I might write about evaporates, leaving space to ponder these thoughts. "I'm not sure if u heard about the people who were bit by sharks near seaside and rosemary beach a few weeks ago," she wrote about a beloved section of the [...]
Good morning... Kyshona Armstrong is a singer-song writer who has performed on the shores of Florida's 30-A. Kyshona tenderly reminds us, "We are fallen people living in a fallen world. We're fallen people, people who who hurt." Having savored the song several times, it strikes me that "hurt" is a multifaceted word. "Hurt" goes both ways. Throughout our [...]
Good morning... Cleaning out his office before moving into his new role as Chaplain Emeritus at The Lovett School, Steve came across this photo from our cross-country camping trip to the Wisconsin Dells in 2010. He shared the picture in our family group text, and we all got a good laugh. (Of course our youngest son was too [...]
