Good morning... "Oh Sue, I know what you mean!" one subscriber wrote to me after reading last week's posts, Welcome To Our Messy Home, Does My Mess Bless, Seasonal Insanity, and Dust If You Must. "I think any mom who has cherished the happy chaos of childhood gets it. Ok don’t laugh, but one of my favorite rainy day [...]
Good morning... Earlier this week our post, Welcome To Our Messy Home, stepped on a common nerve. One of you wrote: "I'm so glad that you took a picture of your Messy House. My mom has told me for years how much that I will miss a messy house, loads of laundry, shoes left all over the place, [...]
Good morning... "Sue, I love this message - and it’s a lesson I’ve gradually learned this past year hosting a weekly Bible study in my home for the first time," one of you wrote after our Monday post, Welcome To Our Messy Home. She noticed her change of heart: "For the first meeting back in September, I made [...]
Good morning... I fell in love with a song when our kids were young, a song comparing two neighboring houses "side by side on Baxter Street." Allen Levi's soothing voice tickles our heart with this chorus: "1412 is a magazine cover. 1420 is covered with kids. One's just a picture post card. The other's where real people live." [...]
Good morning... Leaning against our foyer table was our seventeen-year-old son's lacrosse gear, used hard in the state tournament game, and his guitar amp was sitting nearby, left over from their rock band's recent graduation gig. Laid out in our living room were backpacks and bedrolls unchosen by my son and my husband for their week long hiking/camping [...]
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... 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 [...]
Good morning... The sun rises today to host a funeral for a father. Let me tell you of the days leading up to this morning. Our 17-year-old son brought a good friend with us on spring break in Florida, and on the second evening of our vacation this friend got a call from his mother in Atlanta. The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
