Good morning... I felt privileged to serve holy communion to our family of faith during a tumultuous time in the United Methodist Church. With my feeble fingers I pulled off a small piece of the whole homemade loaf and placed it in the open palm of each person walking up to receive a living morsel of transformational truth. [...]
Good morning... Whatever life phase you wake up to this springtime Sabbath, God's endless love rains down fresh and gentle. “Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As the light rain upon the tender grass, And as the spring showers upon the herb" (Deuteronomy 32:2, AMP). What teaching has the LORD dropped [...]
Good morning... "I appreciate your efforts in presenting the 'Living Fully - Dying Well' series," she emailed me after we finished our six-week series on peacefully attending to various facets of the final season of life. On the last week we each brought symbols of loved ones who have gone ahead of us to heaven. A funny bow [...]
Good morning... I am grateful to be the Women's Ministry Director at Northside Church. My spiritual gifts have grown deep roots and fresh fruits in the rich nurturing soil of our family of faith. My True Self comes alive in collaboration with the diverse, creative people in our loving community. As we move toward the Lenten season, check [...]
Good morning... Yesterday morning, I received a copy of the heartfelt letter Rev. Bill Britt sent to congregants from nearby Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. Here are some of the highlights. General Conference of the United Methodist Church has ended. In the last hour of the final session, delegates approved the "Traditional Plan" - the General Conference has [...]
Good morning... "I picked up my Bible and turned the pages, becoming aware of how God had revealed this ageless process in its stories," whispered yesterday's post. "I read it not only as a chronicle of salvation history but as the story of an inner journey taking place in the landscape of one's soul. Egypt, wilderness, and promised [...]
Good morning... A few of you wrote me touched by yesterday's morning message (use "Previous" link above to revisit post). I felt compelled to issue each a challenge: "Text me by evening and tell me some of the ways God amazes you today. I will do the same." So by the end of yesterday, these moments of amazement [...]
Good morning... Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us how to live well before dying. I noticed a huge pile of wisdom adding up about the delicate dance between living fully and dying well, as I researched the 123 favorite MLK quotes for yesterday's post (touch 'Previous' above to revisit). These priceless pebbles of truth continue to ripple out [...]
Good morning... I had a message all written and scheduled to arrive in your inbox at 3:00 am today. Then God woke me around 2:20 am with an anxious dream that took hours to develop into this brand new message. Let me tell you about it. I dreamed that I had missed not one but two emails inviting [...]
Good morning... You early risers had to wait for today's message, just like I was forced to wait by the computer glitches I wrote about yesterday (touch "Previous" above to revisit our post). As I waited and waited, the prayer forming in me morphed into more. “God, help me to be patient with Your timing. Please hold me as [...]
