Hope Remains

Good morning... My husband and I watched a couple taking engagement photos on the beach. The rising sun peaked out of the clouds. The waves ebbed and flowed in sync. The perfect dreams of these young strangers were played themselves out before our eyes. Thinking back to the day before, Steve had performed a wedding for another beautiful [...]

By |2020-11-17T07:23:14-05:00November 17th, 2020|Everyday life, God's Love, Imperfection|

Everything Becomes Beautiful

Good morning... He has made everything beautiful in its appropriate time. He has also put obscurity in their hearts so that no one comes to know the work that God has done from the beginning to the end (Ecclesiastes 3:11, MEV). "Imagine that you're unwell and in a foul mood, and you're driving through some lovely countryside," writes [...]

By |2020-11-06T07:27:27-05:00November 6th, 2020|God's Plan, Imperfection, Transformation|

From Bad To Greater Good

Good morning... As our website crashed this week, I anxiously worried, "That's bad!" Then, just like in one of our kids' favorite books, my initial "That's bad!" surprisingly morphed into "That's good!" Let me tell you the story. In this delightful yellow book, a little boy has a comical series of mishaps as his visit to [...]

By |2020-09-08T10:01:29-04:00September 8th, 2020|Anxiety, Everyday life, God's Plan, Gratitude, Imperfection|

Broken And Whole

Good morning... "Good morning, Sue," she texted today at 8:03 am. "This is the second morning your wonderful blog posts have a funky format and are not opening. Anyone else mention that?" God and I have been working on a computer issue with our web designer for the past thirty-six hours. Something with a server. Something with a [...]

By |2020-09-04T14:51:57-04:00September 4th, 2020|Imperfection, New From Old, Transformation, Trust God, Uncategorized|

Will I Miss This?

Good morning... I walked up our stairs to the hometown bedroom of our college freshman, and this shocking image is what I saw. Appalling and endearing? Mess and excess? Raunchy and reckless? Most of you might be more mortified than I as you look at this crazy chaos, but my momma-eyes zero in on wonderful remnants of our [...]

By |2020-08-12T12:41:15-04:00August 12th, 2020|Aging, Everyday life, Home, Imperfection, Seasons|

Fresh Every Morning

Good morning... Fortunately, God does not come to us in just one life-altering moment, whispering from within, "You are fully known. You are fully loved. You don't need to pretend to be anyone." Instead God comes to us again and again, in refreshing new ways, day after day. The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is [...]

By |2020-05-29T08:15:54-04:00May 29th, 2020|Awareness, Everyday life, God's Love, Imperfection, Trust God|

Make Good Lemonade

Good morning... "I thoroughly enjoyed last week's post about the power of perspective," one subscriber wrote. "It resonated with me and my family history. My parents were born in the United States but my grandparents were born in Japan. My grandparents immigrated to the United States when they were teenagers looking for a better life. My parents lived in [...]

C.S. Lewis Said

Good morning... "The following is from C. S. Lewis," wrote a very special friend. "It was written in 1948 after the dawn of the atomic age." ****** Mr. Lewis wrote: In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: [...]

By |2020-05-22T01:45:53-04:00May 22nd, 2020|Death And Resurrection, Everyday life, Fear, Imperfection, Trust God|

Dealing With Our Dirt

Good morning... "There is a dead weight of accumulation," Anne Morrow Lindbergh admits in Gift From The Sea, "a coating of false values, habits and burdens which blight life. It is this smothering coat that needs constantly to be stripped off, in life as well as in relationships" (58). Dead weight. Accumulation. Coating of falseness - values, habits, [...]

Think Outside The Box

Good morning... "We're adjusting to a new reality," musicians in this video admit, "and we'll have to find solutions in order to support each other. Creative forces help us, let's think outside the box and use innovation to keep our connection and make it work together. Because if we do it together, we will succeed." This energizing endeavor [...]

By |2020-03-25T08:20:49-04:00March 25th, 2020|Community, Everyday life, Imperfection, Spiritual Gifts, Unity|
Go to Top