I Just Feel Really Sad

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, [...]

By |2020-12-22T06:39:40-05:00December 22nd, 2020|Family and Friends, Letting Go, New From Old|

Grass Isn’t Always Greener

Good morning... "The grass isn't always greener on the other side," whispers my most recent Goodwill find. The grass isn't always greener on the other side of losing a job, releasing a loved one to heaven, facing life following an accident, an illness, physical diminishment. The grass isn't always greener on the other side when an alcoholic can't [...]

By |2020-12-17T06:52:19-05:00December 17th, 2020|God's Word, New From Old, Organic Growth|

The Ugliest Necklace

Good morning... At Goodwill, pre-pandemic, I was drawn to the ugliest necklace I have ever seen. Gaudy and overcrowded. Heavy and weighed down. Haphazardly strung together and hanging on by a thread. As I picked up the necklace, examining the creation more closely, I admired the individual stones. Natural, God-made gems. Each gemstone was unique, size, shape, and [...]

By |2020-12-15T07:41:45-05:00December 15th, 2020|Everyday life, Imperfection, New From Old|

Things Fall Off

Good morning... Led by the Spirit, an altar is being created in our foyer with all of the tiny treasures I find on my walks. Things fall off. It's nature's way. Things fall off. Colorful feathers, black acorns, buckeye nuts, chipped off hearts made of bark or stone. When I walked and talked with a friend recently, we [...]

By |2020-11-19T03:23:44-05:00November 19th, 2020|God's Plan, Gratitude, New From Old|

Losing? Loving? Learning?

Good morning... Into the sacred space between us, we pop-corned our answers to these three poignant questions: "This month, what are you losing? What are you loving? What are you learning?" I made three different columns on my blank journal page to collect the words popping out of our mouths. Losing - Hugs. Trick or treat. Structure. Self-discipline. Motivation. [...]

By |2020-11-01T08:56:30-05:00November 1st, 2020|Everyday life, New From Old, Trust God|

Joy Fills Our Eyes

Good morning... Quickly scrolling through some old text messages between myself and two best friends, what stood out to me from the long sea of words was the pictures. The three images below captured my attention before God added an encouraging commentary. Wearied by the world, can we endure the powerful process of [...]

By |2020-10-26T10:12:36-04:00October 26th, 2020|Joy, New From Old, Transformation|

Don’t Waste Good Wine

Good morning... I woke this morning with a verse saturating my mind. I got out of bed, went to my Bible, and searched for the verse. Here's what I found. "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the wineskins. But [...]

By |2020-09-15T12:40:53-04:00September 15th, 2020|Community, Everyday life, God's Love, New From Old, Transformation|

Creating Peaceful Patterns

Good morning... "Nature, at a glance, is random and chaotic," my artist friend Corinne Adams wrote in her email. "Yet underlying this apparently disordered and complex system are intricate patterns, interconnected relationships, bold repetitions and a system of self-organization." "I am called into nature," she explains, "first, to observe what is there and to invite it [...]

By |2020-09-10T01:10:01-04:00September 10th, 2020|Anxiety, Nature, New From Old, Peace, Trust God|

First Time In Fifteen Years

Good morning... One mid summer night in 2005, God startled me awake: "Host a Bible study in your home." I recently pulled out the manuscript which chronicles my formation as a writer, a teacher, a daily God-listener. We now pick up the story after our life-changing move from a tiny town in Pennsylvania to the bustling city of Atlanta, [...]

By |2020-09-09T04:50:29-04:00September 9th, 2020|Depression, Discernment, Listen, New From Old, Trust God|

Broken And Whole

Good morning... "Good morning, Sue," she texted today at 8:03 am. "This is the second morning your wonderful blog posts have a funky format and are not opening. Anyone else mention that?" God and I have been working on a computer issue with our web designer for the past thirty-six hours. Something with a server. Something with a [...]

By |2020-09-04T14:51:57-04:00September 4th, 2020|Imperfection, New From Old, Transformation, Trust God, Uncategorized|
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