Good morning... "I don't see color," a long-time friend said over dinner the other night. I think she meant, "I take people as they are. I don't judge any person by the color of their skin. My diverse relationships are more than skin-deep." Growing up, when we said, "I don't see color," we thought we were being non-judgmental, [...]
Good morning... "Good morning, Sue," she texted today at 8:03 am. "This is the second morning your wonderful blog posts have a funky format and are not opening. Anyone else mention that?" God and I have been working on a computer issue with our web designer for the past thirty-six hours. Something with a server. Something with a [...]
Good morning... I recently ran across an old Youtube video of me teaching a living room full of ladies about transformation, metamorphosis, and being strengthened by God from the inside out. (Below you can see for yourself my taped introduction of our book, Scared To Soar? ) I chuckle at myself on video, seeing my banged hair with less [...]
Good morning... A few months back, the leaders on the computer screen above asked me to be the 2020 kick-off speaker for the Lovett Moms In Prayer group, a group of mothers who pray weekly for our school and our community, our teachers and our administrators, our world and our children, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Speaking with this [...]
Good morning... Last week a church friend for over twenty-five years sent me the following article. At first reading, I loved it. Over time, I began to wrestled with it. Now I invite you into my soul-searching question, "What is church?" ****** Excerpt from When Church Is Not Bound by Four Walls posted on August 16th, 2020 If church [...]
Good morning... Now is about the time many of us head into a slump. This Coronavirus is a marathon, not a sprint, with no end in sight. Our loss of control, routine, and stability is taking an exhausting toll. Add to it the uncertainty of new normal life transitions. Births and deaths. Weddings, divorces, and funerals. Difficult diagnoses [...]
Good morning... Sixteen. I saw exactly sixteen of these black caterpillars on one walk last week. Some were crawling. Some were squished. Some littler, some bigger. The sheer number of these creatures in one morning made them impossible for me to ignore. Checking my phone when I arrived home, I was surprised by a text string from a [...]
Good morning... Many of you have written to me about how much you miss church. We miss entering the beloved building. We miss worshipping and learning, socializing and serving together. We miss cozying up in the warmth of our timeless traditions and bonding as Christ's body with God and each other. Still many church doors remain closed as [...]
Good morning... "Wow!" she texted before last night's incredible thunder-and-lightening-fest. "Have you seen this?" "'Wow!' is right," I replied. "How can words written through a person nearly eighty years ago speak so boldly to us right now? This creative expression can only be the eternal voice of our living Lord, who was, and is, and is [...]
Good morning... "Good morning, Sue," she emailed after yesterday's post Worry Less. Pray More. "I saw this yesterday and thought of it again reading your wise words this morning. XO." With our hand on our beating heart, where the Spirit of God is alive and well, we center ourselves on the only important thing: the peaceful [...]
