God Hands Me A Pillow

Good morning... I have been awake in the dark for hours now. Praying. Journaling. Pondering on a blank page, "LORD, what do You want to say through me today?" Sitting still in this question, jotting one dead-end idea after another, I have watched a multitude of minutes tick off our wall clock. "This is where so many holy [...]

By |2019-04-08T08:05:34-04:00April 8th, 2019|Everyday life, God's Love, Home, Mystery, Trust God|

Savor Super Bowl Sabbath: Settling South

Good morning... Looking directly south, I snapped this photo from our back porch this morning, just after God woke me at 5:30 am. If you look closely, you can see the well-lit dome of the Georgia State Capitol building in downtown Atlanta, the highest illuminated peak to the left in the dawning distance. Our new hometown is abuzz [...]

By |2019-02-03T07:42:54-05:00February 3rd, 2019|Everyday life, Home, New From Old, Sabbath, Trust God|

The Real Me

Good morning... Yesterday's post by the Henri Nouwen Society explains the process of shedding our old self to gradually mature into our God-designed true self, "growing up in all things" into Christ, our Head (Ephesians 4:15). I wonder if somehow this is what happened to me when I moved from the close-knit cocoon of loving and being loved [...]

By |2019-02-01T06:21:47-05:00February 1st, 2019|God's Plan, Home, New From Old, Organic Growth, True Self|

A Home For Each Season

Good morning... Remember? I shared with you that my parents, ages 80 and 81, moved away from our hometown of Berea, Ohio after living there for over fifty years. Following the lead of several good friends, on November 1st, 2018 they moved into a two-bedroom, two-bath villa in a continuing care, retirement community twenty minutes away. In early [...]

By |2019-02-03T09:02:30-05:00January 28th, 2019|Abundance, Aging, Everyday life, Family and Friends, Home|

Savor Sabbath: Welcome Jesus

Good morning... The word "sabbath" in Hebrew means rest, cessation, to cease from labor. We are told in Genesis 2:2-3 (AMP) And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. So God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it [as [...]

By |2018-12-16T08:04:40-05:00December 16th, 2018|Anxiety, Everyday life, Home, Jesus Christ, Silence And Solitude|

Readying Our Home

Good morning... Another Mary has come into my life this holiday season. A subscriber wrote: "Sue, your readers may enjoy 'Making the House Ready for the Lord' by Mary Oliver. It's a favorite of my poetry group at St. Anne's Terrace." So I took his advice and I checked out this poem, written in 2006, by this new-to-me Mary, [...]

By |2018-12-12T12:19:48-05:00December 15th, 2018|Anxiety, Everyday life, Family and Friends, Home, Jesus Christ|

When Jesus Comes To Our House

Good morning... For our opening devotional, we read out loud a picture book entitled If Jesus Came To My House. It was such a delight, sparking sweet discussion, so with you I now share as we prepare to welcome Jesus into our homes. Envisioning yourself as an excited child, enjoy these words in silence or read them aloud [...]

By |2018-12-11T06:32:09-05:00December 12th, 2018|Community, Everyday life, God's Love, Home, Jesus Christ|

LORD Enter My Small Life

Good morning... "LORD!" he began our gathering reciting words from Christian mystic Evelyn Underhill. "Give me courage and love to open the door and contain You to enter, whatever the disguise You come in, enter before I fully recognize my guest." "Come in!" he whispered aloud. "Enter my small life." "Lay Your sacred hands on all the common [...]

By |2018-12-10T21:46:45-05:00December 11th, 2018|Everyday life, God's Love, Home, Prayer, Transformation|

Be God’s Bridge

Good morning... Facilitating a book study in Florida, she sent me her favorite quote from the week: “The purpose of radically ordinary hospitality is to take the hand of a stranger and put it in the hand of the Savior, to bridge hostile worlds, and to add to the family of God.” (Rosaria Butterfield's The Gospel Comes With A [...]

By |2018-10-28T09:12:44-04:00October 28th, 2018|Community, God's Love, Heaven On Earth, Home, Pain|
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