Good morning... In the middle of the night, I pull out the "blob tree" tree that I crafted during our therapeutic community group at PAWkids this week. I know there is violence on the corner of a distant branch. I know there is loneliness and isolation and despair. But, feeling like the purple person on the perch, I [...]
Good morning... Evil is not a word I use very often. Yet, in yesterday's post I shared the words from Romans 12:21 bleached into my tattered shirt: "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." After waking from my second sleep, I re-read our blog post before opening a weekly devotional sent to my inbox. [...]
Good morning... Over the past several months, we have prayed diligently for my mom to pull through surgery after surgery and, gratefully, she is now slowly healing at home with my dad. At the same time, two other friends have said "goodbye" to their mothers on earth, releasing them to God's eternal care in the home of heaven. [...]
Good morning... "Another minute. Another day. Year after year. Life lives through us. What an incredible gift." I had just finished reading these final words from our Saturday morning blog post, We Live Through Death. The message shared a moving poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer entitled Still Here. Suddenly, I felt a prick on my left arm, and, [...]
Good morning... These final words of a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks greeted us as we entered the Sonya Clark exhibit at the High Museum of Art last Saturday. "...we are each other's harvest we are each other's business we are each other's magnitude and bond." A group of us from our Sunday afternoon class went to take part [...]
Good morning... I am so grateful that art is a part of my life every week. Good art, bad art, it matters not. Whether others love it or hate it, more art emerges. On Mondays from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, a group of about ten of us volunteers take turns leading art activities with the students in the [...]
Good morning... Waking in the middle of the night, I turn on a single lamp, strike a match and light a melting candle. As I let the dogs out briefly to do their thing, our thermostat reads "18," which is bitter cold for Atlanta. My heart turns to those who are homeless, in our city and other cities [...]
Good morning... With me taking a Sabbath rest from writing each Sunday, this is our final blog post for 2023. I feel drawn to pass along the encouragement a friend shared with me. In the midst of her journey with breast cancer, she wrote, "Yesterday I read the whole book Chris Beats Cancer by Chris Wark. It was [...]
Good morning... This week I received a "thank you" email from LaTonya Gates, Founder and Director of PAWkids. She expressed gratitude for our generous donation of $1,000 to cover the cost of four students visiting Mississippi Valley State University on Homecoming weekend, October 13th-15th. Larenzia Lawrence, LaTonya's daughter and Director of the PAWkids after-school program, led the amazing [...]
Good morning... Walking down the aisle as mother-of-the-groom, I was surprised to feel my tears well up as I saw the faces of our longtime friends beaming in the crowd. Four couples who helped to raise our son came from Atlanta along with their grown-up sons, guys who had wrestled or played soccer with Kyler since we moved [...]
