Good morning... It can be hard to re-enter life's normal rhythm after being swept up into mountaintop moments. Personally, quietly, my re-entry has been rough. Sharing my truth, I found myself texting a friend in the middle of the night. "I am taking my time re-entering the rhythm of life following our ten day trip through Israel," I [...]
Good morning... "Every time our ordinary life bumps up against an unavoidable loss, there are choices to be made," concluded our blog post yesterday morning, Our Passage To New Life. "Will we allow the loss we are currently facing to be a passage to something new, something wider, something deeper? Like the Israelites following God's lead out of [...]
Good morning... As we were driving to our family reunion in Pennsylvania last Sunday, a minister said over the radio, "Jesus did not come to earth to take a side, he came to earth to take over." I got out my phone and texted myself the wise sentence. I have been pondering the thought all week. In our [...]
Good morning... As we grow out of 2020 and ignite God's peace and light in 2021, words from T.S. Eliot guide us forward. "For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next years words await another voice," says the poet. "What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to [...]
Good morning... "I feel like a tired Tigger," she said as we shared a walk and talk in yesterday's chilly sun. "I would love to bounce forward like you said in your blog today, but I just feel like I am bouncing up and down like Tigger, bounce, bounce, bounce, but I'm not going anywhere. It's exhausting to [...]
Good morning... "...refreshing to find this in our bed n breakfast information book in Cedar Key, Florida...this evening...so sweet," a loyal subscriber wrote me last night. ****** DANCING WITH GOD When I meditated on the word GUIDANCE, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God’s will is a lot like [...]
Good morning... Many of you have shared with me fun photos of the light of the Lord filling your homes, and, drenched with multi-faceted meaning, the photo above felt like a gift to share. This ethereal image, light, airy, tenuous, came with a text: "Light of the Lord at my house this AM leading me out of my [...]
Good morning... "Every year since we've been married, we've traveled to see our families," she said over the phone yesterday. "Today is the day we always leave, we head up north, we go to my parent's home to gather with all the aunts, uncles, and cousins. Then we spend time with my husband's family. For the first time, [...]
Good morning... The last presidential debate has passed. Tons of votes have been cast. Many more will be gathered and counted. Now we wait suspended, betwixt and between, hopeful for what will eventually be. "We keep praying that our illusions will fall away," writes Richard Rohr. "God erodes them from many sides, hoping they will fall. But we [...]
Good morning... I happen upon a German word, "Zerrissenheit," which means "torn-to-pieces-hood." Researching further, I meet some synonyms. Rift. Strife. Disunity. Fragmentation. Brokenness. Disjointedness. Inner turmoil or conflict. "Zerrissenheit," what a perfect word to meet two weeks before Election Day 2020. If feels like we are living in a ragged state of "torn-to-pieces-hood." Some think this, others think that. [...]
