Why Did I Just Pig Out?

Good morning... On our walk we did several essential things. We exercised in the fresh air. We walked our dogs around the horse farm. We caught up on the details of our challenging family dynamics. We reminded each other that Christmas will be here one short week from Monday. Coming home filled with feelings, I promptly "pigged out" [...]

By |2023-12-15T03:09:56-05:00December 14th, 2023|Anxiety, Awareness, Everyday life, Prayer|

My Mom’s Surgery Today

Good morning... The wordless prayer card above sits beside me in the living room as I write. The man depicted looks so much like my dad reading the paper at the kitchen table in their sunny Ohio villa. "Good Life," the main heading in the newspaper, is something my parents have enjoyed for 85 and 86 years. The [...]

By |2023-12-06T07:57:39-05:00December 6th, 2023|Family and Friends, Healing, Prayer, Trust God|

I’m Heartbroken

Good morning... "What people stand to discover...is the close relationship between individual heartbreak and the brokenheartedness of the world," notices Barbara Brown Taylor in Learning to Walk in the Dark. "While those who are frightened by the primal energy of dark emotions try to avoid them, becoming more and more cut off from the world at large, those [...]

By |2023-10-27T02:34:32-04:00October 27th, 2023|Pain, Peace, Prayer|

Reduce Stress. Extend Life.

Good morning... A friend asked me to bring my folders of pre-cut images, my glue sticks and scissors, my blank cards and transparent sleeves. Together we hosted a gathering to make wordless prayer cards at her home with a group of her longtime friends. What joy! The special morning evaporated in such a personal, passionate, powerful way. To [...]

By |2023-10-25T02:24:31-04:00October 25th, 2023|Everyday life, Prayer, Trust God|

Please Catch And Keep

Good morning... "Almighty God, please catch and keep each suffering soul swept up in the current of this wounding world," begs my newest prayer card. “Lord, to whom shall we go? You [alone] have the words of eternal life [you are our only hope]" (John 6:68, AMP). "Almighty God, please catch and keep each suffering soul." We each [...]

By |2023-10-18T10:33:29-04:00October 18th, 2023|Death And Resurrection, Prayer, Trust God|

We Live Our Silent Prayers

Good morning... Some darkness is so very dark, we are rendered speechless. A friend in our Friday group shared this Thomas Merton quote before terrorists slaughtered innocents in Israel. When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of [...]

By |2023-10-11T08:58:03-04:00October 11th, 2023|Light In Darkness, Prayer, Silence And Solitude|

Lying Beside My Friends

Good morning... While nursing a partial tear in her ACL, our dog Tate chased after a squirrel, yelped really loud, fell to the ground, laid down for a long while, lame. That night we let Tate sleep outside for potty purposes. In solidarity, in case she needed help, I slept under a blanket on our outdoor couch beneath [...]

By |2023-10-06T04:41:24-04:00October 6th, 2023|Death And Resurrection, God's Love, Prayer|

Too Many People Need My Prayers

Good morning... As we settle into non-anxious silence, God's inner music begins to beacon. We are gently drawn toward the peace, the power, the presence of God. "Sue," she wrote after yesterday's blog post, "I always feel overwhelmed by the number of people that I love who desperately need prayer. I could sit all day and hope to [...]

By |2023-10-04T08:13:22-04:00October 4th, 2023|Everyday life, God's Timing, Prayer|

Caught Up In Life’s Whirlwind

Good morning... I feel caught up in a real life whirlwind. People I love are experiencing high highs - births, weddings, birthdays, a calm return home, a successful heart transplant, a trip to Uganda to nurture single moms and widows. Others I love are facing low lows - repeated scans and a wait for results, the complications of [...]

By |2023-09-27T04:42:07-04:00September 27th, 2023|Everyday life, Prayer, Seasons|

“I’m All Tangled Up.”

Good morning... "Oh I wish I could just fly up and join you to make wordless prayer cards," she wrote yesterday from a few states away. Then she explained: "My heart is tangled with my head, my head is tangled with fear, my fear is tangled with worry, my worry is tangled with love, my love is tangled [...]

By |2023-09-15T01:06:07-04:00September 13th, 2023|Anxiety, Joy, Prayer|
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