Good morning... "Sue, I just read both Monday and Tuesday's posts," she wrote yesterday. "Well as your 'crazy' moment was about turkey, my UGLY moment was about what our young adult kids chose to wear to church on Easter Sunday. I went off before we left the house and ended up being the naggy mom. So, instead of just [...]
Good morning... "I absolutely love the checkmark visual," one subscriber wrote after Saturday morning's post. "The word descent makes me think of falling completely in love and being totally dependent on God at happy times - my wedding and the birth of our children - in addition to the really difficult seasons." She's right. Painful life seasons (the [...]
Good morning... Important emails are piling up. I don't have time to respond to all. I feel overwhelmed. In my mind, heart, and gut are gnarly knots. I don't have time to untangle all. I feel overwhelmed. Time evaporates with so much left to do. I don't have time to accomplish all. I feel overwhelmed. Unaware of my chaotic quandary, [...]
Good morning... Today Betty Skinner turns 93 years old. She wakes in Ponte Vedra, Florida. I wake in Atlanta, Georgia. We both wake increasingly more whole. In the fall of 2007, I met The Hidden Life Awakened in its original 2006 form, a captivating book chronicling the fascinating faith journey of Christian mystic Betty Skinner. For reasons way beyond [...]
Good morning... We hate to wait. We hate to wait for sunrise. We hate to wait for pain to pass. We hate to wait for seeds to sprout. We hate to wait for needs to be met. We hate to wait for results to return. We hate to wait for healing to happen. We hate to wait for [...]
Good morning... You early risers had to wait for today's message, just like I was forced to wait by the computer glitches I wrote about yesterday (touch "Previous" above to revisit our post). As I waited and waited, the prayer forming in me morphed into more. “God, help me to be patient with Your timing. Please hold me as [...]
Good morning... Writing my notes of encouragement for the "treasure boxes" being filled for our two spiritual mentors, I hit a computer glitch. Then another. And another. The little, colorful spinning wheel just kept on spinning. I was forced to wait. Time was running out on the deadline. How would this important task get done? I had to [...]
Good morning... "Aimlessness is akin to lifelessness," writes a famous religious teacher of our day. His devotional went on to say, "Dead leaves in the backyard may move around more than the dog, more than the children. The wind blows this way, they go this way. The wind blows that way, they go that way. They tumble, they [...]
Good morning... One week from today we will begin a new semester of learning in our living room, exploring the wisdom of When The Heart Waits. I am intrigued by the words of author Sue Monk Kidd. Sue writes: “Is it possible," I asked myself, “that I’m being summoned from some deep and holy place from within? Am I [...]
Good morning... Each sabbath we take a day to rest and review lessons we have learned together in our everyday blog. As the curtain opens on 2019, we are wise to look back, securing our bearings, before seeking and sensing: "God, what's next?" Using the "Previous." link above this message, savor again the inner terrain we have explored [...]
