Good morning... "Sweet dear friend," she emailed after yesterday's post, "I’m smiling as I know your family and I can just imagine how fun and light-filled that breakfast was and the jovial conversation which flowed from your son's prompt." "And yet I wonder," she continued, "how will these examples of near-death experiences “sit” with a community that is [...]
Good morning... A wonderfully wide array of women filled the Chapel at Northside Church last night as we gathered for our annual Women's Lenten Communion Service. We experienced a heartfelt talk before breaking bread to dip into wine, feeding upon Christ's sacrificial love for all: through brokenness we are made whole. Let me share with you highlights from [...]
Good morning... Until we look inside ourselves, to the very marrow of our God-drenched soul, we look for love in all the wrong places. People. Political and religious leaders. Paycheck after paycheck, we search for deeper meaning. Sue Monk Kidd says it this way. ****** Excerpt from When The Heart Waits Without maps or signposts, people search for [...]
Good morning... I simply must tell you, most every angel figure in our home has at least one broken wing. The angel pictured here, who sits beside us when I host outdoor spiritual direction sessions, broken. The angel in our main nativity creche, broken. The angels in the smaller nativity scenes kept at Christmas in each bedroom, broken. [...]
Good morning... Yesterday morning our fascinating post about the murmuration of starlings was the most widely viewed post in a very long time. The videos, spectacular. Unifying synchronicity, mesmerizing. God's invisible power made visible, thought-provoking. Then last night I turned on the news to witness wild division, and I remembered the visual of different sections of the murmuration parting widely [...]
Good morning... Re-editing our post from a few days ago, I stick in a strange new word that somehow feels right. Viscerally. I am drawn to add viscerally (touch "Previous. Previous." above to revisit this message). The sentence now reads: "My gut viscerally felt like the knotted debris still littering the roads after Hurricane Michael." I google this foreign-to-me [...]
Good morning... "God has shown me that the light within me cannot be extinguished," wrote our friend Mary as she grieves the loss of her son, "but there are times when it will be faint, and other times when it will burn bright. The Holy Spirit, the light, is always there within! He shows me that there is [...]
Good morning... "I must admit that I am THANKFUL to have another Thanksgiving behind me," a subscriber from Charlotte, N.C. writes as she grieves the loss of her young adult son. "Yesterday was tough, and also were the days leading up to it. The anticipation alone puts me in a state of angst, frustration, sadness and anger, all [...]
Good morning... God woke me from sleep with an anxious image. I sensed, somewhere not far away, terrorists had attacked and destroyed a billboard bearing six big letters: ALWAYS. There seemed healing for the nations in this ALWAYS. The salvation of our world was dependent upon this ALWAYS. And this tangible reminder of ALWAYS was ripped up and [...]
Good morning... "Lining up at the poles today, pondering political races, how do we discern where to cast our votes?" This sentence began the message I scheduled for 3:00 am this morning. When I woke from sleep, I chuckled as I re-read the words, picking up my typo. Did you catch it also? For months as a country we [...]
