Good morning... "I enjoy reading your blog posts every morning," she said. "I rarely write you back, but I am grateful for your gift each day." Then came the question I often hear: "I'm worried about you, do you ever sleep?" Muddling through a polite answer, I forget exactly what I said. Later that night, in the dark [...]
Good morning... "Please don't miss 'I Believe' by Mark Miller on YouTube," she wrote after yesterday's post, When God Seems Silent. "So thankful for your commitment to sharing your love of scripture." I enjoyed the adventure of researching various versions of this powerful song. The following rendition by Schola Diffusa (Latin for "dispersed choir") was performed from the [...]
Good morning... Even with all of the doors to our home closed and locked tight, I heard the birds bickering boldly in the middle of the night. Loud. Relentless. These unseen creatures were having a heated discussion. "If I open the door, trying to catch a glimpse, I might scare them away," I thought to myself, so I [...]
Good morning... Many of you loved yesterday's post, Steve's Sermon On Saturday, words given by my husband to graduating high school seniors. He spoke of The Great Forgetting, our naturally human tendency to forget important things as we move forward in life. He challenged us to become people who actively remember. "...for remembering who God has created you [...]
Good morning... In the early hours of last Saturday, I wrote My Hope For These Twenty Year Olds. I pushed "send" on our blog post around 3:00 am then crawled back into bed for my second sleep. When I woke again, I revisiting our message, tweaking it a bit, like I often do. I did not alter the [...]
Good morning... Wrapped beneath a cozy blanket, I nestle alone on the outdoor couch below our back porch. With my ear to my phone, I savor the four familiar voices on our monthly call. After the silence of our opening prayer, one friend reads aloud a poem. What a quietly transformational place to begin. ****** Hide and Seek [...]
Good morning... During our Friday morning class, we wondered together how we ordinary people might actually hear the guiding voice of God. Enlivening our discussion, one of our classmates told us a true story. Lake Blue Ridge is a thin place for this friend, a sacred spot where heaven and earth seem seamlessly bound. On one of her [...]
Good morning... We left the Dead Sea, where the shoreline is shrinking and the water is murky and undrinkable. After a fascinating teaching at the top of Masada, we went to an oasis in the middle of the desert. In contrast to the Dead Sea, we enjoyed living water. From out of the jagged rock faces of the [...]
Good morning... In our women's Advent retreat schedule, at 5:00 pm Saturday night there was a communion mass to which we were all invited. Privately, my spirit wondered, "What time is sunset?" I love to do a photo shoot with the setting sun whenever I am at Ignatius House Retreat Center, so I googled "When is sunset in [...]
Good morning... In cleaning our home to welcome our guests later this afternoon, I ran across a book I had totally forgotten about. Underlined. Highlighted. Circled and starred. A few years back I devoured each page during my two year training to become a spiritual director. Guided by the Spirit, I am now drawn to dog-eared page number [...]
