Will You Fall Upward?

Good morning... "I love, love, love this!" she wrote after yesterday's post, Take Three Steps. "I tend to get a little glum in the fall. As the days grow shorter, the light changes, the energy of spring and summer fades, I feel a little sadness. I have been reading our Richard Rohr book, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for [...]

By |2019-09-27T05:05:25-04:00September 27th, 2019|Death And Resurrection, Letting Go, Mystery, Seasons, Spiritual Growth|

What Do You Think?

Good morning... At 9:46 am yesterday, he texted me, "Reading through John this morning. Checkout John 14:16-17 and let me know what you think." So I googled the passage on Biblegateway.com and perused five different translations of these two verses. I settled in on the most detailed one, the Amplified Bible version, a translation hosting the heading "Role [...]

By |2019-08-02T08:30:18-04:00July 30th, 2019|Everyday life, Holy Spirit, Mystery, Spiritual Growth, Trust God|

Still Our Ocean Of Emotions

Good morning... "Sad songs, they say so much," sings a lyric many of us know. Yet "sad" is relative and "saying so much" is important for every one of us. The music at yesterday's memorial service honoring J Schroeder, beloved 61-year-old husband and dad, son, brother, friend, was moving and meaningful. The following song invited us to quietly [...]

By |2019-06-12T06:51:12-04:00June 12th, 2019|Community, Death And Resurrection, Grief, Mystery, Trust God|

From Burn To Beauty

Good morning... "Oh Sue," she wrote at 8:38 pm last night, nearly twenty-four hour after our first exchange. "To God be the Glory for the words He places on your heart, captures though your pen, lays on your lips. What you have written is the TRUTH! Continue speaking it, my Sister in Christ." (She was referring to yesterday's [...]

By |2019-04-19T06:27:33-04:00April 17th, 2019|Abundance, Death And Resurrection, Mystery, Transformation, True Self|

Savor Sabbath: Rise Alive

Happy Palm Sunday... This week we commemorate the biggest checkmark of all time. Beginning today, the Christian church around the globe follows Jesus' descent into the depth of God's love for all of us before ascending to fullness of life we never thought possible. "Jesus’s real purpose in this sacrifice was to wager his own life against his [...]

By |2019-04-16T12:55:32-04:00April 14th, 2019|Death And Resurrection, God's Love, God's Plan, Jesus Christ, Mystery|

God Hands Me A Pillow

Good morning... I have been awake in the dark for hours now. Praying. Journaling. Pondering on a blank page, "LORD, what do You want to say through me today?" Sitting still in this question, jotting one dead-end idea after another, I have watched a multitude of minutes tick off our wall clock. "This is where so many holy [...]

By |2019-04-08T08:05:34-04:00April 8th, 2019|Everyday life, God's Love, Home, Mystery, Trust God|

I Doodle A Prayer

Good morning... Opening time and space in these first wee hours, I wait for God to whisper. Who knows what will bubble up and spill on my journal? As I wait, quietly attentive, I strangely feel drawn to doodle. I doodle my memory of 93-year-old Betty Skinner's room in her assisted living facility in Florida. I sketch her [...]

By |2019-03-28T05:55:03-04:00March 28th, 2019|Aging, Awareness, Family and Friends, God's Love, Holy Spirit, Mystery, Prayer|

The Tale Of Our True Self

Good morning... With this Scripture verse ending yesterday's post we sense our True Self coming up like jonquils out of fallen snow: May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality] (Ephesians 3:16, AMP). I [...]

By |2019-03-25T04:13:58-04:00March 19th, 2019|Everyday life, God's Plan, Mystery, Spiritual Growth, True Self|

Our Fertile Common Ground

Good morning... In my quiet time this morning, I am drawn to cultivate yesterday's controversial post, expanding the fertile, common ground beneath our feet. Whether we walk to the middle with God from the left or walk to the middle with God from the right, As we take into our body the broken body of Christ, we are united [...]

By |2019-03-04T17:15:59-05:00March 5th, 2019|Community, God's Love, Mystery, Organic Growth, Trust God|

Broken Open Together

Good morning... I felt privileged to serve holy communion to our family of faith during a tumultuous time in the United Methodist Church. With my feeble fingers I pulled off a small piece of the whole homemade loaf and placed it in the open palm of each person walking up to receive a living morsel of transformational truth. [...]

By |2019-03-04T10:23:07-05:00March 4th, 2019|Community, God's Love, Mystery, Pain, Unity|
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