Good morning... Practically, what does it look like to inhale the breath of God before exhaling unselfish love? Yesterday's post, Breathe God In And Out, ends with a Scripture verse. The next chapter in our Bible is 1 Corinthians 13, a chapter best known as the "love chapter." Let's personalize these words in a meaningful way as we prepare [...]
Good Morning... "I do LOVE this soaking analogy!" a dear friend wrote after yesterday's post, "Soaking. Still." She continued: "I wanted to share this God moment with you, urging me to soak:) Before I read your devotional, I read my Jesus Calling devotional, which led me to this verse: The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in [...]
Good Morning... Many of you loved our recent post "Soak Like a Sponge" and, as I have been resting in the wisdom, I have felt a new facet of truth lift to my awareness. Another definition of "soak" is to extract a stain by immersion in a powerful liquid. To remove a stain by submerging soiled fabric in a cleaning [...]
Good Morning... This month, our Listening Groups have been soaking the union of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 and 1 John 4:16. Mixed together, these Scriptures describe to us God's caring, constant character. God is patient, God is kind. He does not envy, does not boast, is not proud. He does not dishonor others, is not self-seeking, is not easily angered, keeps no records [...]
Good morning... I received a surprise email from one of the directors from my two year spiritual direction training program. From Cleveland, Ohio she wrote: "Hoping the event goes well for Same Kind of Different as Me. I am asking God to bless your effort to reach out to others about with the message of this story. I am [...]
Good Morning... “God designed a world where we all live ‘within’ our selves; that is, we inhabit our own souls, and we are responsible for the things that make up ‘us,’” say the authors of our Boundaries book on page 32. “The heart knows its own bitterness and no one shares its joy (Proverbs 14:10). We have to deal [...]
Good morning… As I prepare for this month's Listening Group, I read again Jesus' ultimate show of powerful love before he begins his walk to the cross. We pick up the story in John 13:1-17 in the Contemporary English Version. It was before Passover, and Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and [...]
Good morning... Accepting my son's invitation from yesterday morning, I have prayerfully pondered my final tweet. Even though I have never tweeted before in my life, if given 140 characters, I might send this final tweet to the world. God made us unique, loves us just as we are. Jesus died for each sin, frees, leads, heals whole. Spirit [...]
Good morning... A few days back, a sobering announcement came into my blog email. It took away my breath and brought me to tears. Your list has lost a subscriber: Julie Harlan. I thought to myself, "What an understatement. We have lost much more than a subscriber." Julie was a devoted wife and mother, a beloved daughter and friend, [...]
Good morning... In a memorable service, we honored his life. A father and a grandfather. A coach and a mentor. A friend and a legend. His full-bodied life we honored wholeheartedly. At the reception afterward, I quietly browsed the table of memorabilia. Awards and pictures. Boyhood smile to doting dad to grinning grandad. Snapshot after snapshot captured his unique [...]
