Good morning... When my sister Cathy came to Atlanta to hear Kay Warren speak a few weeks ago, she was concerned that her twelve year old dog Libby might not make it through the weekend. Then this week, on Tuesday, these words appeared in our extended family's group text: "Libby passed away this morning 😢" "Oh, I am [...]
Good morning... On Sunday in worship, the musicians sang a song I had never heard. I went home, and I researched the gift. Humble Jesus by Audrey Assad speaks the truth we all need to hear on this dark Ash Wednesday morn. ****** [Verse 1] Humble and human, willing to bend You are Fashioned of flesh and the [...]
Good morning... Yesterday was Betty Skinner's sixth birthday in heaven. Betty was a Christian mystic and the heroine of my all-time favorite book, The Hidden Life Awakened by Kitty Crenshaw and Dr. Cathy Snapp. Incredibly drawn to her Jesus-like qualities, I took an annual pilgrimage to visit with Betty in Ponta Vedra, Florida for the last five years [...]
Good morning... "Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning." This old adage came to mind as I looked south over the city of Atlanta yesterday morning. Even from a distance, I could tell it was going to be a doozie of a day. Sure enough. Computer concerns. Internet issues. Reworking yesterday's [...]
Good morning... After a lifetime of searching for the biggest, widest Christmas tree every December - circling the tree farm, cutting our own - my husband and I decided to “go thin” this year. To be honest, we quietly grabbed the best tree we could find in Home Deposit's 8 to 9 foot bin, at 8:30 pm last [...]
Good morning... As we begin this Thanksgiving week, there are places to be and people to see, with a huge list of to-do's to accomplish. Check. Check. Check. We embody the common phrase, "Don't just stand there. Do something." Yet I am drawn to live this week differently. I return to one sentence from our book for this [...]
Good morning... As we met for our final Wednesday afternoon class of the fall semester, we discussed a freeing way to pray. ****** Excerpt from page 241 of God's Joyful Surprise by Sue Monk Kidd It is like having a room in the very core of your heart where all of the people you pray for gather with [...]
Good morning... As we gathered for class on Sunday afternoon, I asked a friend, "How are you today?" "I'm really tired," she replied, not knowing that "tired" was where our opening poem would begin. Together, we sat outside in the sunshine and listened to David Whyte read his beloved poem "Sweet Darkness." We unpacked the thoughts stirring within [...]
Good morning... Yesterday, my neighbor sent me a devotional link entitled "Peace When You Don't Have Control." What an gracious gift to receive on the second anniversary of the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, a day when so many innocent people lost any semblance of control. Now, up in the middle of this moonlit night, I [...]
Good morning... In an email entitled "Memories," I received encouragement from Judy Wise, a close friend of my parents who must also be in her late 80's. I don't think I have seen Judy since our wedding day in 1987, but she reads our daily blog diligently from her home in North Carolina. After a week of us [...]
