Savor Sabbath: Falling This Fall

Good morning... My attention was caught by James 1:19-21 in The Message translation. These three verses whisper saving wisdom to savor this Sabbath. Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all [...]

By |2019-09-29T01:45:04-04:00September 29th, 2019|Death And Resurrection, Letting Go, Sabbath, Seasons, Spiritual Growth|

Will You Fall Upward?

Good morning... "I love, love, love this!" she wrote after yesterday's post, Take Three Steps. "I tend to get a little glum in the fall. As the days grow shorter, the light changes, the energy of spring and summer fades, I feel a little sadness. I have been reading our Richard Rohr book, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for [...]

By |2019-09-27T05:05:25-04:00September 27th, 2019|Death And Resurrection, Letting Go, Mystery, Seasons, Spiritual Growth|

Take Three Steps

Good morning... "As I read this morning's message," one of you wrote after reading of the "hidden wholeness" of fall, "I thought of the Bible study I am doing, The Good and Beautiful God series. Might we look at autumn as an opportunity to shed old self-protective habits to make room for the Holy Spirit within us to make [...]

By |2019-09-26T10:13:08-04:00September 26th, 2019|Abundance, Everyday life, God's Word, Letting Go, Spiritual Growth|

One Trusting Wife

Good morning... On September 10th at 9:48 am, after reading our post, We Are Learning To Trust, one reader wrote me a touching email. "Last night my family and I moved my husband of 63 years into hospice care. Your writing about trust spoke to me profoundly this morning. My journey these next few weeks or days leaves [...]

By |2019-09-13T07:23:20-04:00September 13th, 2019|Everyday life, Letting Go, Loss, Trust God|

We Are Not Alone

Good morning... Well, I guess I am not the only person prone to "dragging one's feet." Receiving many responses to yesterday's post, I Am Dragging My Feet, I saw your tender words of wisdom settling into three categories. Some of you looked back, reminiscing, remembering. "Sue, I just wanted to say how fortunate I felt to be included [...]

By |2019-08-28T06:27:39-04:00August 28th, 2019|Aging, Community, Everyday life, Letting Go, Seasons|

I Am Dragging My Feet

Good morning... drag one's feet (idiomatic) To procrastinate, put off; to dawdle, avoid, or make progress slowly and reluctantly. I have been dragging my feet about filing my taxes. (idiomatic) To intentionally stall, to delay, to obstruct. (delay, stall): slow-walk, dilly-dally I google the phrase "drag one's feet" on Wiktionary.org, since for a few week now I have [...]

By |2019-08-27T07:21:40-04:00August 27th, 2019|Aging, Community, Everyday life, Letting Go, Seasons|

The First Day Of Our Last Year

Good morning... I remember dropping off our first kindergartener for his first day of school, driving home, and crying emotions all over my journal. That was August 2000. Back then I was nurturing two more kids at home, three-and-a-half and seventeen months, and our final baby was just a hope in my heart, born the next June to [...]

By |2019-08-16T21:01:20-04:00August 14th, 2019|Aging, Family and Friends, Home, Letting Go, Seasons|

We Memorize A Mother

Good morning... Last week, I went to a memorial service for a mother I never knew, Caroline Lamar Mason Gilham. I love her daughter, her granddaughters, her son-in-law, but I never knew Caroline, until I went to the service celebrating her eighty-five years of vibrant life. The meditative music in the Preludes included so many old favorites. Lord [...]

By |2019-08-11T08:48:37-04:00August 10th, 2019|Aging, Community, Death And Resurrection, Heaven On Earth, Letting Go|

Here Is Your Permission Slip

Good morning... "I would rather be late than be yelling," one wise young mom confessed a few years back, as she struggled to shift gears from summertime slow to school-year stress. Securing supplies. Earlier bedtime. Homework, half-days, and "have-to's" galore. Between now and mid October, parents shepherding children to school from home will settle into a more steady [...]

By |2019-08-09T08:14:50-04:00August 9th, 2019|Everyday life, Family and Friends, Letting Go, Peace, Trust God|

Saturday’s Song

Good morning... As we talked about the Holy Spirit actively guiding our daily lives, she said, "I only want to do what God wants me to do. Everything else fades away. It reminds me of the song I love most right now." Then together we enjoyed her current favorite song. I hope you will too. All athletes are [...]

By |2019-08-03T17:16:12-04:00August 3rd, 2019|Awareness, Everyday life, God's Plan, God's Timing, Letting Go|
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