Good morning... Having heard that I just became a grandmother, a friend from Florida wrote: "Sue I am SO excited and happy for you!! Yay yay yay!! Just catching up on emails and overjoyed for your whole family!" She continued: "I love this Henry David Thoreau quote too: 'Every child begins the world again.' And the video below [...]
Good morning... The full moon this Maundy Thursday shines light on the story of Easter. From Smyrna, Georgia down south to the shores of Kiawah Island, South Carolina and up north to the waters of Blue Ridge to the Vinings area of Atlanta, God's light pierces our darkness. [...]
Good morning... Last weekend, I led a retreat with thirty-two women for Kairos, a small Presbyterian church in town. God inspired the "Made for More" retreat material from a funny card I received several years back. Symbolically, we are all born as caterpillars, mindlessly munching the leaf upon which we [...]
Good morning... One thing my 87 year old mom has loved over the years is collecting and displaying nativity sets every Advent season. Yesterday, we began the process of locating and arranging throughout the house a few of these unique creations. To tell you the truth, the experience was [...]
Good morning... Invited to share bread crumbs from our common loaf, please let this poem lead you home to your heart. ****** PLEASE by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer If you are one who has practice meeting the pain of the world, we need you. Right now we need you to teach us it is possible to swallow what is [...]
Good morning... Supporting the preaching series of our senior pastor, I crafted a devotional message to be sent to our Northside Church family today. As we fall on our face into God's grace, what might we learn? ******* In Dr. Bill’s summertime series, Rated M for Mature, we find our way to the most life-altering chapter of all. [...]
Good morning... All human effort dissolves into this Anthony de Mello story. When I applied myself to the study of wisdom and reflected on the kinds of tasks that occupy people’s attention on earth, I noticed how little sleep they generally get, whether day or night. I saw all the works and ways of God, and it became [...]
Good morning... The cards I chose in our art activity this week highlighted the wisdom of Victor Frankel, laid out in Man's Search for Meaning. "Will I choose to behave like a swine (greedy, selfish, overindulgent) or will I choose to behave like a saint (peaceful, prayerful, at home in God's light)?" Through his experience in the concentration [...]
Good morning... On my own, I did not understand the material assigned for Sunday's discussion of Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel. I needed our small group to help spark wise thoughts, make real connections, and weave random words into a warm cloak of wisdom. About ten or twelve of us talked through the chapter, finding our [...]
Good morning... As I walked our dogs before bedtime last night, I marveled at the full moon. Then I went to sleep and I woke again, stepping outside at 12:55 am, expecting to see the highly touted "blood moon." Instead of the gorgeous reddish hue predicted, as the Earth eclipsed the moon, my [...]
