Good morning... After last week's post, Plant Today's Crumbs, I will lean back and let your crumbs of gratitude fall upon the page. Collecting our crumbs and warming our daily bread in the oven of time, today we will each savor a sacred slice. ****** Our Crumbs of Gratitude by "Sue To You" subscribers My crumbs of gratitude [...]
Good morning... One week ago today as a class we celebrated National Gratitude Day. Quietly thinking of all the things for which we are grateful, we lit candles and dripped multi-colored wax onto a centerpiece of broken shells adorning the coffee table in our living room. As wax dripped down, voices of women raised up. "I am grateful [...]
Good morning... "Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual," notices Jean-Pierre de Caussade. "The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become the source of knowledge [...]
Good morning... I have loved rocking back and forth with you again on the front porch of our lives, enjoying interactive intimacy this first week of September. I share with you Holy Spirit wisdom from my wee morning hours, and you return to me kind words of affirmation, day after day. When I lean back to listen to [...]
Good morning... Like morning manna falling for the first followers, God rains down the nourishment we each need for this day. When the dew evaporated, a flaky substance as fine as frost blanketed the ground. The Israelites were puzzled when they saw it. “What is it?” they asked each other. They had no idea what it was (Exodus 16:14-15a, [...]
Good morning... “The unexamined life is not worth living,” famously said Socrates. I am not sure I totally agree, "not worth living" may be an absurd absolute. Instead I would say, "An examined life is much more enjoyable." We live the stuff of life once, and, as we examine it and re-examine it, we make deeper connections, we [...]
Good morning... I have been living the lyrics of an old song all summer long: "God, if a picture paints a thousand words then why can't I paint You?" Feeling drawn to the possibility of adding pictures to our everyday blog, I asked a photographer friend where to begin. She suggested two options. I could buy the latest [...]
Good morning... People I deeply care about were surprised and confused by yesterday's morning message, Plant This Seed Of Gratitude. Fairly new to our online community, they assumed our daily blog was part of my role as Women's Ministry Director at Northside Church. If I am paid a salary for my work hours at church, why create an opportunity [...]
Good morning... As our writers' group gathered for dinner last week, a nagging question gained significant weight in my mind. I had avoided this question. Then resisted this question. Then wrestled with this question for nearly ten years. Finally, I felt myself let go. I felt lead to seek trusted counsel. When it was my turn to share with our [...]
Good morning... At our final Friday gathering of the semester, we shared the memorable words, quotes, and insights we loved best from Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak. In the course of our life-giving conversation, one of the women told us of an acronym her minister had recently shared. "Some asked me to repeat," she emailed later, "so here it [...]
