Good morning... I was there when my husband faced a dilemma. He, the Upper School Chaplain, wrote about the incident in this week's devotional email sent to subscribers in The Lovett School community. ***** Act 6 Devotional by Rev. Steve Allen I was in a discussion recently with a group of friends. Things got pretty heated between some [...]
Good morning... "The Inner Meaning of Jesus' Parables," reads the subtitle of a Christian classic published in 1970 by John A. Sanford, who was an American Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest. I am an "inner meaning" girl. I love Jesus. I find his parables fascinatingly fun to ponder, so I am intrigued by Sanford's work exploring "the inner [...]
Good morning... "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid," says the Albert Einstein quote at the bottom of my friend's email. Thought-provoking. Right? The unique fractal of God implanted in us is our genius, our soul, our [...]
Good morning... I waited impatiently for this morning's message to pop through my groggy brain. You know me, I wake when God wakes me and I lift onto my inner tippy toes, my soul stretching to sense a living Word from our loving LORD. Slowly. Today possibilities percolated slowly. Way too slowly for my liking. "...we've forgotten about [...]
Good morning... I enjoy the mornings when God lets me sleep past 5:00 am. That is the time Henri Nouwen Society sends out their Daily Meditation. Sometimes I open the post and wallow in the wisdom. Sometimes I do not. Today I did and here is what I read. ****** Loneliness by Henri Nouwen, February 6, 2019 It [...]
Good morning... Our family is short. You saw photos of my parents in a few recent posts, my parents who stand 5-feet-1 and 5-feet-3. My older sister and I stand up really tall to reach 5-feet ourselves, and our younger brother is the giant of our family at a whopping 5-feet-9. My husband is also 5-feet-9, and our [...]
Good morning... I recently happened upon a story about our family stepping out of our old life before stepping into our new one in autumn of 2003. ****** Conform Or Transform? by Sue Allen, on page 39 in Touching Truth: Grasping The Grace of God As our family moved from a sleepy lifestyle in rural Pennsylvania to the [...]
Good morning... I love the unifying murmuration of Holy Spirit power I feel with Betty Skinner as she nears 93 years old and with Kitty Crenshaw and Dr. Cathy Snapp, the authors of The Hidden Life Awakened, the captivating book chronicling Betty's journey from deep clinical depression to the height of God's healing to wholeness. Together we also [...]
Good morning... I had a message all written and scheduled to arrive in your inbox at 3:00 am today. Then God woke me around 2:20 am with an anxious dream that took hours to develop into this brand new message. Let me tell you about it. I dreamed that I had missed not one but two emails inviting [...]
Good morning... You early risers had to wait for today's message, just like I was forced to wait by the computer glitches I wrote about yesterday (touch "Previous" above to revisit our post). As I waited and waited, the prayer forming in me morphed into more. “God, help me to be patient with Your timing. Please hold me as [...]
