Good morning... During our therapeutic community group at PAWkids this week, we learned about letting go. "What does letting go actually look like?" our hand-out asked. What catches your eye as you review the sheet now? Here's what we learned about the art of letting go. You accept that some things [...]
Good morning... This week, we took a deep dive into chapter five in Paula D'Arcy's Waking Up to This Day. As we learn to obey the rhythms of life, we begin to make peace with the unpredictable movement of God. "Life is change, Paula, the life force whispered. That's what life is. Life is an expression of the [...]
Good morning... We read these words out loud as we gathered for class in our basement. Written on page 41 of Waking Up to This Day, we sat with the wisdom of Paula D'Arcy. "I had to be willing to slow down and move the way life was moving. "Life in the west is up to ninety miles [...]
Good morning... "This hawk on our lake this morning was just too magnificent not to share!" a friend texted yesterday morning. "So so stately," I replied. "What is the spiritual significance of hawks?" It did not take her long to respond: "Hawks are often seen as powerful spiritual symbols representing intuition, transformation, and personal growth. Their presence can [...]
Good morning... I recently met a poem that helps me to hold onto what is of utmost importance. ****** HOLDING by Phyllis Cole-Dai The intelligence of my five fingers working together to lace into the intelligence of yours— all the computing required of our brains. AI: actual intelligence. O, let us make our hands instruments for good! Catch [...]
Good morning... In Waking Up to This Day, Paula D'Arcy shares transformative truth: "Catherine of Siena writes, 'My deepest me is God.'" (16) "When we see something as it is, the breaking of the shell begins," Paula explains. "My friend Flynn reflects, 'Even to look at an iris and think, "Such a beautiful flower," is already expressing an [...]
Good morning... Yesterday afternoon, we happily gathered for our first monthly class of this new semester. Amidst our great discussion, we read aloud from page 24 in A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson. "...one motif occurs again and again," wrote Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. "A traveler loses his way in the forest; it it [...]
Good morning... Most of us start the day with preconceived plans. More likely than not, our plans will be interrupted. The quote above, sent by a friend last week, helps to shift our focus from, "Why, God, why?" to "Who?" and to "What?" In the Plan B moments we meet today, might we stop and wonder and learn, [...]
Good morning... On Saturday, I received a text from my dad in Ohio: "I received a message from Ingar (Margit's son). He said that Margit passed away this morning. She passed peacefully surrounded by family." She passed away at her home in Norway, pictured above in April of 2020. Margit spent a year with our family as a [...]
Good morning... The morning after snapping happy photos of our grandson Charlie last week, I looked down on our driveway and saw this gut-wrenching sight. A red frog had been caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, innocently squished by the tire of my husband's car. By no fault of it's own, the poor fella was [...]
