Good morning... As I recently told you, my signed copy of The Hidden Life Awakened was hiding somewhere. Until today, when it surprisingly appeared in a pile on my desk, on the first day of our Awake To Wellness Women's Retreat led by the book's authors. God's timing often makes me laugh. I fell in love with the first [...]
Good morning... So many of you have responded so kindly to our recent posts revealing my experience of deep depression (Heavy And Hollow) and of my fear that people would think less of me because of it (I Feel Like Jerry Maguire). Thank you all for resonating with my realness. In their extreme contrast, two responses in particular taught me [...]
Good morning... As I hazily recall my own walk down-and-up through the deep valley of depression, two words linger longest. Heavy and hollow. It is weird to feel heavy and hollow at the same time, like the shell of a 500 lb. chocolate Easter bunny who is empty inside. My depression was partially situational and mostly quite spiritual. God [...]
Good morning... Billy Graham drifted home to heaven, and I can imagine God smiling big: "You did Billy Graham really well." The influential person of faith God envisioned, when he knit Billy together in his mother's womb, is likely very similar to the Billy who now rests at peace forever, the Billy we see in this video tribute: https://vimeo.com/256952383?ref=fb-share There [...]
Good morning... In my book, I put a question mark by a new-to-me word. Evanescent. Do you know what "evanescent" means? I love to treasure hunt truth, so I get to googlin'. "Evanescent" means soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence. Quietly fading. Quickly fleeting. Brief. Short-lived. Vanishing. "Every person's life is lined with memories, keepsakes, habits, and [...]
Good morning... As we conspire, breathe together with God, our inside self and our outside self grow to become best friends. Connected. Congruent. In constant conversation with our Creator. No longer needed, our icy false self melts into God's warmth, watering the ground of our true "birthright" self. Connected. Congruent. In constant communication with our Creator. Who we are becoming [...]
Good morning... I slept well in the afterglow of the Women's Lenten Communion Service. Now quietly I sit and savor the Scriptures saturating last night's trip-fold bulletin. Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, [that special endowment] which was intentionally bestowed on you [by the Holy Spirit]... Practice and work hard on these things; be absorbed in them [completely [...]
Good morning... In my recent post Fill The Hole In My Soul, I shared words handwritten by my 25-year-old self in my first official journal back in 1988. Afterward a supportive subscriber wrote: "Wow. You are the same as when you were at 25. Older. Wiser. But really the same. If you had cut and pasted that message from your [...]
Good morning... By 12:34 am I was stirred awake from sleep by a panicky dream. So I got up from bed, scratched notes in my journal, then went back to bed to sleep through the night. Now I wake for the day at 6:43 am and I try to read the words chicken-scratched in last night's dark: "Fingerprint - carbon [...]
Good morning... To help the family gather pictures for her funeral reception, I went to my friend's condo last week. My heart was overjoyed to see an antique painting of fruit hanging on her bedroom wall. This handprinted original was a gift she had opened from me, by-chance, at our recent “Symbols of the Soul Gift Exchange," a final exchange [...]
