Good morning... God is weaving wonderful wisdom through our daily blog right now. If we are to enjoy the passage of time, we need to empty ourselves of poisonous anger, follow in Christ's forgiving footprints, and notice God's unconditional love expanding to heal everything, within us and around us. Prayerfully pondering our past posts, I can sense what God [...]
Good morning... I woke with a weird vision filling my mind, a vision of one handwritten note bearing two sentences. "No one likes to be judged. Call LeeAnn." Strange. Out of the blue. Really, really odd. First I unpacked, "No one likes to be judged." Judgement is a two-sided issue God is inviting me to face. On one [...]
Good morning... Okay, I just have to tell you a really embarrassing story. One summer day, I parked our van in the garage like normal, like I do every day. As I walked around the back bumper into our house, I noticed a plastic box hanging on the garage wall. "Huh," I thought, "I've never seen that before." [...]
Good morning... As we crouch beneath our crazy cover-ups (see God Continues Our Conversation), God bestows both boundaries and blessings, offering us a lifetime of personalized protection. God Bestows Boundaries God says to the sneaky snake: "In the dust you will crawl on your belly and people will hate you, naturally keeping their safe distance. You might nip [...]
Good morning... Sometimes we forget what God said first to us-humans: "You are free to eat of any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat it you will surely die" (Genesis 2:17, NIV). What is the one deadly thing we are told not [...]
Good morning... Each journal is a hairband, holding "who I am" in place. The rats nest of me is teased out, combed through, then braided loosely with my pen. Morning after morning, silent solitude weaves my strands. Laying prostrate on the page, my growing hairs are held secure. With feelings pulled back from my face, I glimpse God's [...]
Good morning... Last Monday our class had a "Cousin Itt" experience with Paula D'Arcy's Seeking With All My Heart. Overwhelmed by wild-haired emotions and immersed in concepts way over our heads, we could not see truth with our individual eyes, so collectively we expressed, "I did not get that chapter at all." "Paula's understanding is way beyond mine." [...]
Good morning... Life carves us down, life carves us down deep. Just scroll back through our past five posts. A cancer-free seven year old now safe in Jesus' arms. An eighteen year old breathing freely in heaven after a lifetime altered by Cystic Fibrosis. A twenty-seven year old wife and mom whose dream life was stolen by a [...]
Good morning... As you can tell, I think we do well to age gently into the passage of time. When we relax, reflect, and renew our mind, we will find God's deeper meaning connecting our daily dots. Now ask the animals, and let them teach you [that God does not deal with His creatures according to their character]; And ask [...]
Good morning... Waiting on God's timing gradually strengthens our hope. Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping—believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, "That’s how many descendants you will have!" And Abraham’s faith did not weaken, even though, at about 100 years of age, he figured his [...]
