Hope Rises From Tonight’s New Moon

Good morning... This challenging week, all of the waning light has drained out of the moon. With 0% illumination, the sky will experience a new moon tonight. Then the small sliver of a waxing crescent moon will slowly start to shed light again, like a sense of quiet hope rising from within. My dear friend has had a [...]

By |2023-10-14T05:08:31-04:00October 14th, 2023|Letting Go, Light In Darkness, Trust God|

Her Email Made Me Cry

Good morning... This week of our oldest son's wedding, I blogged about my emotional thunderstorm. One reader's response was short and swift. ****** Good morning ☀️ Your emotional storm… It is real because… You planned Laid logistics Loved Prayed Dreamed Worked Made lists Posted post it notes Expected Cultivated Stayed awake Laughed Loved and planned more Had ideas [...]

By |2023-08-29T08:28:24-04:00August 29th, 2023|Discernment, Letting Go, Trust God|

Uncertain. Unsettled. Ungrounded.

Good morning... When I try hard to walk a perfectly straight line through the foggy haze of this wounding world, my forceful feet fail me. Peace. Playfulness. Inner balance. These life-giving qualities evaporate. Like a giant balloon girl in the showy Macy's parade, I float through the motions, hovering aimlessly. Ungrounded. Uncertain. Unsettled in my soul. I start [...]

By |2023-08-08T09:27:19-04:00August 8th, 2023|Anxiety, God's Word, Letting Go|

In A Dark Place

Good morning... I think back on a phone conversation I had with a friend this week, a friend stuck in a dark place. She read aloud to me a poignant quote from the book Let God: Spiritual Conversations with Francois Felenon by Winn Collier. "We shouldn't give much energy toward trying to see precisely how God is working [...]

By |2023-07-15T01:56:31-04:00July 15th, 2023|Death And Resurrection, Letting Go, Light In Darkness|

Our Need To Slow Down

Good morning... "I just read a beautiful essay on the need to slow down in the face of crisis," my friend emailed me yesterday, "because it’s not possible to do 'drive-by contemplation' — or 'drive-by loving.'  I will send you this message…..because I know you will resonate with that phrase 'drive-by loving.'  No such thing, either, as 'drive-by [...]

By |2023-06-27T03:41:35-04:00June 27th, 2023|God's Love, Letting Go, Silence And Solitude|

When It Came Time To Leave

Good morning... Thoroughly enjoying our final Monday class, we read aloud some of our favorite passages from The Other Side of Chaos by Margaret Silf. The fourteenth chapter is entitled Yesterday Is Already Ours. This enduring truth - yesterday is already ours - is embedded in us as we walk away from a transformative season together. Now let's [...]

By |2023-04-25T09:18:58-04:00April 25th, 2023|Fear, God's Plan, Letting Go|

Let This Day Gently Unfold

Good morning... We were trying to schedule a walk-and-talk to and from the horse farm. "Tomorrow might work as long as the weather holds..." she texted. "Want to play it by ear and text each other in the morning?" "Yes, that's perfect," I responded. "Have an awesome day. Just let it gently unfold." I looked up and snapped [...]

By |2023-04-14T09:58:07-04:00April 12th, 2023|Everyday life, Letting Go, Trust God|

I Stop Trying. Again.

Good morning... I have tried three times to write this Maundy-Thursday message. 1:30 - 3:30 am: My plethora of scattered thoughts just simply would not connect. I went back to bed. 7:00 to 9:00 am: After working diligently again, I touched one wrong random button. Away zapped all my hard, irretrievable work. Now it's 9:01 am: I give [...]

By |2023-04-06T09:51:23-04:00April 6th, 2023|God's Plan, God's Timing, Letting Go|

Burned Down To My Soul

Good morning... Meeting for the first time in Lent, our therapeutic community group began with our normal feelings check-in with creative blob-figures. I chose to share about our son's engagement, how I feel like the green figure below, diving into totally new territory, leaning into the friends (in yellow) who are skilled at swimming the waters of expanding [...]

By |2023-03-02T05:45:21-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Community, Letting Go, True Self|

I Give Up

Good morning... The sentence that flavored my first week of Lent came from a friend who said, "For Lent, I am giving up trying." Trying to fix. Trying to win. Trying to force. Trying to define. Trying to direct. Trying to appease. Trying to control. Trying to predict. Trying to impress. Trying to persuade. Trying to understand. Trying [...]

By |2023-03-01T08:30:29-05:00March 1st, 2023|Everyday life, Letting Go, Trust God|
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