Good morning... This week in our therapeutic community group, I was asked to read aloud a tender poem by Rashani Rea. "The Unbroken" offers us a glimpse into the soulful surprises we may find nestled inside our deepest sorrows. I am used to trying to process these opposite forces. broken - [...]
Good morning... Twenty of us connected to Northside Church signed up for yesterday's "Care of Body, Care of Soul" Day of Reflection at the Ignatius House Retreat Center. From 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, we joined about twenty other men and women for a day of silent reflection on the sacred grounds beside the Chattahoochee River. We slowed [...]
Good morning... As the full moon creeps through our window to cast a cool shadow on our dining room floor, I am reminded that wholeness unfolds quietly. In the bright of this night, I am drawn back to a quote from Waking Up to This Day by Paula D'Arcy. "...realign yourself with a fresh, unfolding wholeness, a spaciousness [...]
Good morning... In yesterday's post, I shared this gorgeous photo sent earlier in the week by a friend, a picture of the crescent moon resting close to a planet in the dark of night. I finished my two hours of blogging then headed back to bed for my second sleep. Unfortunately, I was woken up early to take [...]
Good morning... We set up our new pack and play and got out some of the rattles, books, and blankets given to us when our first grandson was born. What fun to host Charlie and his parents, Kyler and Chandler, for two nights this weekend. We enjoyed coffee together each morning before they headed onto their full days. [...]
Good morning... Waking in the middle of the night, the light on our bathroom floor whispers, "Sue, remember, it's night one of this full moon cycle." So I walk barefoot out into the night and looked up to see the moon shining brightly over our jagged roofline. In our [...]
Good morning... From page 16 of Waking Up to This Day by Paula D'Arcy, we savored this sentence together. "Catherine of Siena writes, 'My deepest me is God.'" (Pause. Now. Really think about that. "My deepest me is God.") Then we moved to the next page and read aloud a powerful paragraph. "It's as if each of us [...]
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... The night after last week's lunar eclipse, we experienced the full moon of August. Bright. Plump. Rising high in the sky. The following day, I went on a long walk. I noticed a tree stump laying low in the dirt. Hollow. Decaying. Carved out to her core. [...]
Good morning... A gorgeous sunset was followed by a rare phenomenon. "A stunning near-total partial lunar eclipse occurred overnight between August 27 and August 28, 2026," says Space.com. "At its peak, the Earth's dark central shadow, or umbra, covered 96.2% of the full Sturgeon Moon, tinting it a dramatic crimson or copper "blood moon" color." [...]
