Good morning... While my husband and I were talking about the cartoon from our post yesterday, he said, "It reminds me of a commonly used sermon illustration." He went on to ask, "When it comes to making a bacon and egg breakfast, what is the difference between the chicken and the pig? (.....Drum roll please.....) The chicken makes [...]
Good morning... Raise your hand if you have ever been in a "Meal Train," a group organizing meals after a birth, a death, a grueling medical journey. At least in Atlanta, I would say over ninety percent of the women I know have participated in a "Meal Train" sign up at some point, either giving or receiving love-laden [...]
Good morning... "Dear Sue," she wrote after yesterday's post, A Special Kind Of Grief. "Today’s post is so powerful and important. Thank you for sharing these words from the mother who is grieving the loss of her son from overdose. She is so honest and raw and true. So many of us have family and close friends that [...]
Good morning... I cannot unplug from Richard Rohr's quote in Falling Upward: "As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, 'We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!'" (ix) Jesus says a similar thing, "Remain in Me, and I [will remain] in you...for [otherwise] apart from Me [that [...]
Good morning... When I look back on this week of growing spiritually with you, I must admit I was a bit embarrassed that I had written about God "easter-ing" in us on the Monday after a weekend revealing another senseless synagogue shooting. "Easter-ing" is about Christ living on in us, right? And our Jewish friends have different beliefs [...]
Good morning... We are broken. All of us. In one way or another. Jewish and Christian. Shooters and survivors. Homeless and mansion-dwellers. In the midst of this one-of-a-kind week, I forget how God led me to this poem written by Lauretta P. Burns in 1957. LET GO AND LET GOD! As children bring their broken toys with tears for us [...]
Good morning... I touched on the video link in yesterday's post, a link highlighting the important work of the Ignatian Spirituality Project (ISP). What popped up in tiny letters on my screen? "Error establishing a database connection." God is in our glitches, and I absolutely love that I can share a whole post on this transformational non-profit ministry. "The [...]
Good morning... As we gathered for the last time this semester for our Monthly Spiritual Growth Group, I read aloud from my heavily underlined copy of The Hidden Life Awakened. Sharing from pages 130 and 131, I highlighted the spiritual growth of our spiritual mentor 93-year-old Betty Skinner. "All of this inner work was gradually bringing Betty to [...]
Good morning... In the healing harmony of the song we posted yesterday, Sanctuary by Carrie Newcomer, I did not understanding one phrase of the lyrics: sprigs of rosemary. Carrie sings: "Will you be my refuge, my haven in the storm, will you keep the embers warm when my fire's all but gone? Will you remember and bring me [...]
Good morning... After yesterday's sermon, our 17-year-old son said, "I really liked the preacher's story about the boy in his youth group who said, 'If you ever feel like snuffing out your light, don't. The world is dark enough.'" I agreed. That was my favorite takeaway too. Then in the afternoon, I opened an email from a friend, an [...]
