Good morning... "Supposed to be nearing 80-degrees today, so our 4:00 pm lacrosse game will be a scorcher!" yesterday I texted my parents and sister who each live in small towns near Cleveland, Ohio. "Enjoy your Saturday. What are you all up to?" "Track meet got rained out today and it's supposed to snow tomorrow," my sister replied. [...]
Good morning... I enjoy the mornings when God lets me sleep past 5:00 am. That is the time Henri Nouwen Society sends out their Daily Meditation. Sometimes I open the post and wallow in the wisdom. Sometimes I do not. Today I did and here is what I read. ****** Loneliness by Henri Nouwen, February 6, 2019 It [...]
Good morning... I recently happened upon a story about our family stepping out of our old life before stepping into our new one in autumn of 2003. ****** Conform Or Transform? by Sue Allen, on page 39 in Touching Truth: Grasping The Grace of God As our family moved from a sleepy lifestyle in rural Pennsylvania to the [...]
Good morning... I had a message all written and scheduled to arrive in your inbox at 3:00 am today. Then God woke me around 2:20 am with an anxious dream that took hours to develop into this brand new message. Let me tell you about it. I dreamed that I had missed not one but two emails inviting [...]
Good morning... I love this photo of a journal I found secondhand at Goodwill. A baby resting in the hands of a father, with words written in a foreign language. The language of letting go feels foreign to us. "Why? How? What will happen?" Our human nature demands, "Cling. Covet more. Control everything," while the Holy Spirit whispers, [...]
Good morning... Today is a new day. The sins of yesterday need not expand into the sins of today. Ugly thoughts. Biting words. Selfish deeds. Together with God, we can nip these painful buds right off our branch, letting them fall to the ground, to become humbling hummus for the soil beneath our feet. As we allow our [...]
Good morning... Nosegay. When is the last time you heard the word nosegay? Tickling my attention, this weird word appeared in our recent post God's Message In My Dream. Often when the "indwelling Divine Guest whose Voice is spoken in the Silence" speaks into my ordinary life, the LORD's language sounds foreign. "God, what is a nosegay?" I scribble in [...]
Good morning... The healing power of the rippling river is our only hope. When flow from the heights is bullied and blocked, stifling sediment collects. Over years this happens between us. Division builds up. Loving expression slows down. Dry. Hard. Unmoving. Exposed is an ugly rock bed, separating "us" from "them." Within arms length, each side has stones [...]
Good morning... I lingered in silent solitude after a life-giving session with my spiritual director. Sitting still for as long as I needed, I soaked in the palpable presence of God. I quietly felt compelled to pull out my old IPhone 6S to take pictures of three framed sayings resting in the borrowed room. "holding onto anger is [...]
Good morning... We are a skipping stone. Skimming across life's smooth surface. In constant motion. At break-my-neck speed. We feel in control as we fast-forward to our goal. For a while. Newton famously says, "An object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force." An [...]
