Good morning... The annual tradition of our Women's Lenten Communion Service began in 2007. Working as Discipleship Coordinator in the Children's Ministry at the time, I was invited to be the inaugural speaker of this new Lenten event. None of us knew that by January 2008 God would equip me to become the second full-time Women's Ministry Director at [...]
Good morning... Our Saturday breakdown in communication really had no rhyme and no reason. I checked everything I knew to check and found no sign of why we got "Oops. This Page Could Not Be Found!" instead of our post "So It Was With Marian." In my life "no rhyme or reason" usually has God's fingerprints all over it, [...]
Good morning... On this Valentines Day 2019, I will tell you an endless love story evolving in my life. One year at our church there was glitch in our ordering of the annual devotional books I wrote from 2006 to 2016. Our Women's Ministry would self published these babies, after hours and hours of hard, loving labor, then [...]
Good morning... "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid," says the Albert Einstein quote at the bottom of my friend's email. Thought-provoking. Right? The unique fractal of God implanted in us is our genius, our soul, our [...]
Good morning... In the early morning darkness, I quietly unravel more. My soul skips back to that verb from yesterday's post. "Unravel" piques my interest, so I google her definition on Dictionary.com to disentangle her many facets. clear up resolve disclose explain sort out unriddle To separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a [...]
Good morning... Yesterday's post by the Henri Nouwen Society explains the process of shedding our old self to gradually mature into our God-designed true self, "growing up in all things" into Christ, our Head (Ephesians 4:15). I wonder if somehow this is what happened to me when I moved from the close-knit cocoon of loving and being loved [...]
Good morning... I love the unifying murmuration of Holy Spirit power I feel with Betty Skinner as she nears 93 years old and with Kitty Crenshaw and Dr. Cathy Snapp, the authors of The Hidden Life Awakened, the captivating book chronicling Betty's journey from deep clinical depression to the height of God's healing to wholeness. Together we also [...]
Good morning... I love the tense of the verb in Revelation 21:5a (NIV). “I am making everything new!” "I am making everything new," says the Sustainer of life. Not I will make everything new. Or I was going to make everything new, but I changed My mind when I saw humanity's mess. When we savor Sabbath, stopping and resting, [...]
Good morning... "I don't know if you get the messages from the chaplains at Lovett," she wrote yesterday, "but this week's aligns so beautifully with your waiting season." My husband is one of the chaplains at The Lovett School, and I have heard him talk about the devotional emails this talented team sends out each week, but I have [...]
Good morning... We hate to wait. We hate to wait for sunrise. We hate to wait for pain to pass. We hate to wait for seeds to sprout. We hate to wait for needs to be met. We hate to wait for results to return. We hate to wait for healing to happen. We hate to wait for [...]
