Good morning... This Sabbath morn, join me as I read quietly aloud the Message translation of Psalm 23. God, my shepherd! I don’t need a thing. You have bedded me down in lush meadows, you find me quiet pools to drink from. True to your word, you let me catch my breath and send me in the right [...]
Good morning... Within a few short hours, yesterday's morning message morphed into more. Witnessing the Spirit expanding among us, touch base with God's organic growth in our past post, In Our In-Between. Listen to me now. Give me your closest attention. Do farmers plow and plow and do nothing but plow? Or harrow and harrow and do nothing [...]
Good morning... The chapel was nearly full on Sunday night for our Crucial Conversation on MENTAL HEALTH. After two wise therapists shared their compassionate insights, the evening ended with a video of not-so-subtle signs filmed in Italy. Please, please, please give yourself the gift of watching God's love spread through this crowd of ordinary people. Everyone was trying [...]
Good morning... "Hi Sue," from her home in Vancouver, Washington she wrote me after Saturday's blog, Sow This Love Song. "I loved today’s post. A phrase in the song you posted reminded me of my favorite line in “The End” on the Beatles’ Abbey Road album. Link is here: https://youtu.be/5tvSvjpcBuo Asking if I might share the short link [...]
Good morning... "I have been fascinated with your posts about the many tables in our lives," she wrote. "So many come to mind! Display table. Side table. Thanksgiving table. The list goes on and on." She continued: "My daughter, living in Charleston, communicates with me in many different ways as she navigates a new city and her entry [...]
Good morning... Yesterday I sat at two very different tables. Invited to sit at my dear friend's table, in the morning I attended the uplifting, inspiring Action Ministries breakfast at the Cobb Energy Center. "What starts as a meal, becomes a conversation," I copied in my journal the words of a spirited speaker. "Out of that conversation grows [...]
Good morning... "We are not helping our children by always preventing them from what might be a necessary falling," writes Richard Rohr on page 28 of Falling Upward, "because you learn how to recover from falling by falling! It is precisely by falling off the bike many times that you eventually learn what the balance feels like. The [...]
Good morning... As her migraines turned into debilitating vertigo, she was held home, laid low, centered down for weeks. Finally on Friday she returned to class in our living room. Because focussing on small print on the page made her condition worse, she had not read a word of our book for the semester, Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward. [...]
Good morning... I pulled the bookmark from my signed copy of one of my favorite books, The Hidden Life Awakened, and I put the small slip of card stock beside the lamp on my bedside table. Centering myself on God's endless Source of life-giving energy, now I whisper aloud each night and each morning the prayer first formed in [...]
Good morning... Last Sunday after church, my overactive mind began to wonder, "What different types of tables exist in our world?" I know, quirky question, but stick in here with me. I began to brainstorm a comprehensive list. Billiards table. Changing table. Breakfast table. Conference table. Coffee table. Folding table. Picnic table. Dinner table. Poker table. Negotiating table. [...]
