Good morning... I am a blank slate. Still. Empty. Expectant. I am an open book. Laid bare. Stretched wide. Written upon by time. I am a two-way street. One lane: "God, what do You need to say?" Other lane: "What do we need to sense?" Each morning I wake as a blank slate, an open book, a two-way street [...]
Good morning... We are all designed to breathe God in and live God out. We are all made to wear God's wisdom like a polished string of pearls. We all want to let go of our self-protective layers, to experience life in its intended abundance. That certainly is our Plan A and God's hope for each of us. But to [...]
Good morning... Yesterday in my journal I unloaded my frustration: "I woke around 4:00 am today and went to read the 3:00 am morning message I had written and scheduled before I climbed into bed. Clicking on the purple link to Awaken Wide-Eyed Wonder, I was roadblocked by 'This page cannot be found.' Ugh! I hate it when that happens. I hate [...]
Good morning... I woke to a short, intriguing email from my 22 year old son. He wrote: "Interesting 8 minute audio clip, 'What's the Last Thing You Would Tweet?' Curious what you think about it, and what your final 140 character message might be." I touched on the link and read through John Piper's thought process as he decided [...]
Good morning... “I must die like a kernel of wheat that falls into the furrows of the earth,” says our friend Jesus in John 12:24, (TLB). “Unless I die, I will be alone, a single seed. But my death will produce many new wheat kernels - a plentiful harvest of new lives.” Seeking to fend off death, we want [...]
Good morning... To commemorate Good Friday, we consider deeply the death of Christ captured in Mark 15:33-39 (NIV). At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?”(which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). When [...]
Good morning... The Thursday before Easter is called Maundy Thursday. Christ's final "mandate" is commemorated today, with "maundy" being a shortened form of the Latin word "mandatum," which means "command." What command or mandate is so important to Jesus that it is given its own special day in the church year? At Thursday's Last Supper with his disciples, Jesus says: "A new [...]
Good morning... The night we first met, I sat next to her at dinner. Fragile feeling. Truth-tellers. Something we said sparked her soul to recite for me a poem: "Even if I don't see it again - nor ever feel it," words from her heart came soft and sure. "I know it is - and that if once it hailed [...]
Good morning... "Sweet Sue," she emailed me, "I saw you and a friend walking yesterday as I pulled out of my driveway, and I wanted to stop but I was running late to get somewhere." She continued: "I am so looking forward to the retreat at St. Philip's on Saturday! I have found a beautiful way to initiate contact [...]
Good morning... After a four day, Holy Spirit hiatus caused by technical difficulty, I wake to the following notice in my inbox. Your list has lost a subscriber. sue@suetoyou.com Sue2You Blog Unsubscribe Date Mar 16, 2018 07:35 pm Email Address sue@suetoyou.com First Name Sue Last Name Allen Unsubscribe IP 141.126.187.10 View Unsubscribe When I "View Unsubscribe," the reason given [...]
