Good morning... Traveling with my husband Steve to a destination wedding he was officiating, I had no idea I would be completely unplugged. In our quaint, quiet cottage, we had no wi-fi, no internet, no cell service, no television. That meant no blog posts created for our written word community on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. I was forced [...]
Good morning... The brutal ugliness of the raging war. The growing death toll after a devastating earthquake. One young mom's grueling journey with advanced colon cancer. Dear friends offering loving care to their spouses with Alzheimers. Laying to rest a beloved mother, grandmother, friend to many. Waiting with a friend for her daughter's scan results. All the chaotic [...]
Good morning... I happened upon a book and felt drawn to a handful of words. ****** Excerpt from Poems from the Thin Places by Monica R. Lavia "My peace I give you," said Jesus. I want that. Not the kind of peace that is the opposite of war, but the kind of peace that is the opposite of [...]
Good morning... Light and shadow are inseparable. Joy and sorrow so often hold hands. Highs and lows are quite the pair. Ebbing and flowing cannot be stopped. I read a poem out loud in our Monday class highlighting the two-way street nature of our oneness with God. "For the joy set before him Christ endured the [...]
Good morning... As I walked our dogs after dinner last night, the moon was full and fantastic. On the eve of the midterm elections in the United States, a phrase from a Scripture verse rose up in me as I walked in the glow of the big balloon moon: "For to us a child is born, to us [...]
Good morning... Reflecting back over this first week in October, I see the love of God fanning out like a rainbow. I notice James 1:27 (MSG) taking up more real estate at the center of our soul. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in [...]
Good morning... Her son, Finn, was born on 9/11/04, three years after so many innocent people lost their lives on one horrible day. Finn himself died on 8/14/21, taking his own life. Sharing a poem yesterday, on would have been Finn's 18th birthday, this grieving mom embodies the art of being with someone who is gone. ****** A [...]
Good morning... The gift of my flat tire extended into the following day. With my car at the tire store, I climbed into the driver's seat of my husband's wheels. Beside me, I noticed a printed page resting on the passenger's seat. I picked up the piece of paper and felt drawn to read the following article from [...]
Good morning... I rushed into a busy morning before God seemed to say, "Cut free." Cut free from non-essentials. Cut free from way too much. Cut free with clear permission. Just sit. Just rest. Just be. God's wispy whisper felt like a drop of water sinking into my thirsty sponge. This actually happened yesterday. "Cut free," surprised me, quiet [...]
Good morning... Many of you were drawn alongside me toward an astronomical shift we gleaned from yesterday's post, My Mom Is Home. "Behold. This is not a problem to be solved. This is a person to be loved." When we shift our focus off of the problem at hand and consider the person sitting right in front of [...]
