Good morning... One word sticks with me from this week's blog posts: yield. It strikes me that yield has a double meaning. The Free Dictionary tells us that to yield, on one hand, means to give up one's place to one who is superior, to surrender or to submit, to defer to or to concede. Day after day, we [...]
Good morning... As I allowed the second COVID vaccine to settle into my body, I pulled out the 3 x 5 card my longtime friend gave me at our birthday season lunch. I quietly ground myself in these seven key questions to see what God grows. ****** 7 Questions to Journal About from NY Times article via Austin [...]
Good morning... After yesterday's blog post, Claim This First Love, a dear friend sent me Richard Rohr's morning meditation for the same day, April 6th. It is as if Rohr is singing to us the next stanza in God's endless love song. ****** Love Revealed by Richard Rohr Julian of Norwich... teaches us that God’s love has nothing [...]
Good morning... Waking this Easter Monday morning, I wonder, "What does it really look like for Christ to live in us?" In the quiet of these early hours, my mind is drawn back to a letter I received on Saturday from the leader of our Disaster Response Team from church. A lightbulb goes on right now: "This is [...]
Good morning... Years ago I learned of a Quaker concept called "bundle." Over the years, God has enhanced my small seed of understanding. The main gist is that we are all born into this world wired for a unique "bundle" of people, people we are designed to spiritually influence and to be influenced by over our lifetime. Our [...]
Good morning... I returned the tools to my master gardener friend after my husband and I shared our pruning adventure. Now we wait, we watch, we wonder, "What new growth will eventually appear?" As I shared in yesterday's blog post, The Power of Pruning, my constantly curious friend taught us about "restoration pruning." She added "Some call it [...]
Good morning... Okay. So our front hedges have been growing way out of control, hiding the bottom half of our window and inching up toward the tippy top. We have lived in this house for about six or seven years, so the seven year itch was creeping up on our bushes. Small periodic hair cuts had become useless. [...]
Good morning... "God speaks through repetition," said the subject in her email following yesterday's post Living The Dream. "What is it God is telling me about seed-planting???" she asked rhetorically. "When I finished reading your words from today, this was my devotion in my bible reading plan. Love it." ****** Matthew 13:18-35 in “The Bible in One Year [...]
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 [...]
Good morning... A "crystal ball" is defined as a glass orb used by fortune-tellers and mystics in popular culture to see into the future. By extension, "looking into a crystal ball" means seeking to predict future events. Broadening the concept further, "looking into God's crystal ball" means that we see ourselves as an integral part of the glorious future God is orchestrating. [...]
