Why Watch The News?

Good morning... I watch the news so I know how to best pray, day after day. I watch different television stations to consider various points of view. I lift in prayer those I see struggling and those I see serving, those I see hurting and those I see helping, those I see reporting and those I see recovering. [...]

By |2020-03-13T15:14:28-04:00March 13th, 2020|Anxiety, Fear, Peace, Prayer, Trust God|

How To Respond

Good morning... After the longest night sleep I have had for a while, I opened my journal as usual. Two words formed two lists. On the left side of my blank page I wrote REACT in bold letters. On the right side I wrote the single word RESPOND. Then I allowed various words to cascade into place. REACT [...]

By |2020-03-11T08:06:30-04:00March 11th, 2020|Anxiety, Peace, Trust God|

Our Learning This Lent

Good morning... This Ash Wednesday, we carry over some meaningful morsels of truth expressed beautifully in yesterday's post. "For Jesus, knowing God fully as he was fully known by God, Oneness with God was more than enough. For grace is clearly at work when a person accepts undeserved pain and suffering and does so because he (or she) is [...]

By |2020-02-26T08:07:32-05:00February 26th, 2020|Death And Resurrection, Everyday life, Mystery, Peace, Trust God|

Caught In My Pajamas

Good morning... Okay. So I am an ENFP on the Myers Briggs personality test. Extroverted. Intuitive. Feeling. Perceiving. That's me. Creatively collaborative, highly intuitive, and deeply perceptive, I feel every facet of life with great gusto. As a very strong "P," I get so caught up in the joy of flying that I have a hard time landing [...]

By |2020-01-25T08:45:56-05:00January 25th, 2020|Authenticity, Peace, Spiritual Growth|

We Are Fed By Our Focus

Good morning... "Good evening, my dear friend Sue," he wrote after our recent posts about the turbulent turmoil and torment swirling around and within us. "I hope you are fully recovered after your illness earlier in the week. I read with interest your messages these past two days. You are right. We live in challenging times. But our loving [...]

By |2020-01-17T12:29:24-05:00January 18th, 2020|Anxiety, Awareness, Everyday life, Peace, Trust God|

What Torment Teaches

Good morning... The Spirit of God continues to speak. Isaiah 50:10b-11 (NIV) sheds more Light on this portion of our path. Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your [...]

By |2020-01-16T12:09:14-05:00January 17th, 2020|Anxiety, God's Plan, Light In Darkness, Peace, Trust God|

Savor Sabbath: Be At Peace

Good morning... The peace of God, which surpasses human understanding, is ours to enjoy, moment by moment. As I review our posts from this week, I am drawn to the Bible verses tenderly taking our hand and lovingly leading us along. Monday: You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into [...]

By |2020-01-12T02:29:25-05:00January 12th, 2020|Everyday life, Joy, Peace, Sabbath, Trust God|

Peace Permeates Us

Good morning... We are invited into deeper trust. God feels every fear, God knows every need, and God offers permeating peace to calm our anxiety. In the privacy of our personal prayers, will we take time to let go and lay down our worries? Fear will not leave us alone, worries naturally well up in each human heart. [...]

By |2020-01-08T14:24:46-05:00January 9th, 2020|Anxiety, Fear, Letting Go, Peace, Trust God|

We Receive Peace

Good morning... I was not expecting to wake up yesterday to the message below written by my husband, a high school chaplain who takes his monthly turn writing a weekly devotional with their team of chaplains. It is as if he opened up the bag and let out all our scared cats. ****** Morning Devotional for January 7, [...]

By |2020-01-08T13:37:03-05:00January 8th, 2020|Anxiety, Everyday life, Letting Go, Peace, Trust God|

Living On The Slant

Good morning... In the midst of my prayer time, God is growing in me a fresh thought, a new-to-me idea, the spark of the small, simple diagram pictured above. I am certain that this line of thinking has been explored by other curious brains, as Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (CEV) reminds us: Everything that happens has happened before; nothing is new, nothing under the [...]

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