Good morning... "We all try to do what seems like the task that life first hands us," writes Richard Rohr, "establishing an identity, a home, relationships, community, security, and building a proper platform for our only life." This is a good place for all of us to begin. Rohr continues: "But it takes us much longer to discover [...]
Good morning... "By doing the work of honoring, balancing, and integrating your inner life and your outer life," says wisdom from yesterday's post, "you will be able to more purely love God by offering your whole self to the work of love." Honor. Balance. Integrate. Inner life and outer life. Love God more purely. Offer whole self completely. [...]
Good morning... This week we are savoring an image sparking intimate trust with our living LORD. On Monday, we learned: The Lord your God is with you . . . even when you make mistakes. He is mighty to save (deliver, make whole) . . . even and especially when you fail. He will take great delight in [...]
Good morning... "Though I have forwarded your blog to my family members more times than I can count, and though I have silently responded to you in my brain just as many times, I have never sent an actual response." She admitted, "It’s intimidating to put down thoughts, but I’m responding to the post of Monday. Because of [...]
Good morning... Eight out of ten times our family worships God at church on Sunday mornings, but today we will savor this Sabbath differently. My husband will worship God this morning at a coffee shop, meeting up with a Lovett School grad who wisely unplugged from college for the weekend to come home to talk vulnerably about the [...]
Good morning... Worshipping at church yesterday, one sentence touched me deeply, reminding me of the challenging week we have collectively experienced. "You're with us in the fire and the flood." I came home and googled the title of the song sharing this most powerful promise. Now it is your turn to be strengthened by the music video God [...]
Good morning... After crafting yesterday's post, We Live In Layers, I returned to my email and received this message from a dear friend: "Please consider helping my neighbor as she tries to rebuild her life from a devastating house fire on Wednesday night. https://www.gofundme.com/f/house-fire-recovery-for-dale-pierce-taylor?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet." As I read through her difficult story and scrolled through the list of "Go Fund [...]
Good morning... Wisdom lingers within me from yesterday's post, When We Feel Broken. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence [...]
Good morning... Before sophisticated, arial footage of the utter devastation in The Bahamas, "those victims" would have remained foreign, faceless, far away. What stays out of sight slips from our mind. What our eyes see our minds retain. What saturates our mind, our heart feels. What our heart feels moves our lips, our feet, our hands. I am [...]
Good morning... Reluctantly, yesterday late afternoon, I canceled my flight to Jacksonville, Florida. Hurricane Dorian lies angrily in wait, dangerously daunting. For months I have looked forward to nestling into deep conversation with author of The Hidden Life Awakened, Kitty Crenshaw, and talking over lunch with our 93-year-old friend, Christian mystic Betty Skinner. On Sunday, I got word [...]
