Good morning... In honor of a few friends facing immense transition, this weekend I created the wordless prayer card above. "Thinking of you as you cross today's bridge into the holy, hazy unknown," I texted the image to each of these soul friends. As this new morning dawns, I expand the reach of my wordless prayer to gently [...]
Good morning... "That is a beautiful song, Sue!" My friend wrote after Monday's blog post including Emmy Rose's stripped down rendition of the song 'Same God'. "Thank you for sharing it with me. It's funny, I was dreaming a song this morning in my head, which I can't remember, but it had something to do with being in [...]
Good morning... Amid a season of transition, I wrote in my journal in the middle of a sleepless night: "I feel so completely discombobulated. Everything in me and around me is in disarray. Books strewn. Couch cushions cock-eyed. Suitcase from my weekend travels unzipped but not unpacked. All of the pedals are off of the bloom. So many [...]
Good morning... "Transitions are gaps," writes Margaret Silf on page 20 of The Other Side of Chaos. "They mark the gap between the no longer and the not yet. They are the space where we are neither in one place nor another, the hiatus between everything we knew and all that lies ahead in the unknowable future. They [...]
Good morning... Like many once-in-a-lifetime events, the 21st birthday of our youngest child was kinda underwhelming for me. Years ago, during a particularly challenging summer with our son, I found the hand painted old fashion sign above: "Good Beer. Good Cheer. Always on tap here." I purchased it at Goodwill as a symbol of hope that our family [...]
Good morning... Her normal nap spots were vacant. I couldn't find our dog anywhere. Not sucking in cool air on any of her favorite air vents. Not curled up in a cozy ball beside our bed in the corner of our main floor bedroom. Not laying outside her doggy door on the warm weathered wood, watching squirrels frolic [...]
Good morning... These three annual words are more complicated this year. "Back to school" means virtual learning for many. "Back to school" for others means social distancing, mask-wearing, quarantining when exposed to COVID-19. "Back to school" for our family means the end of an era. Today, we will pack up two cars, drive seventy-five minutes to Athens, Georgia, [...]
Good morning... She sat with me peacefully honest, straddling the first half of life and the second, shedding her false self to free her true, mothering a teenage son, no longer a boy, not quite at man. When she pulled out her phone and slowly read aloud to me this poem, my heart resonated with each word. What [...]
Good morning... From a retrospective distance, moving from life phase to life phase may seem seamless, but in the middle of leaving behind "what was" while waiting precariously for "what will be," we often struggle to be satisfied with the scraps of "what is." As I have shared with you before, I hit my deepest time of depression [...]
Good morning... A friend who has thrived through many transitions sent me the lyrics and the link to her favorite music video. If there is any link to touch on for two minutes of encouragement, this is one special gift I hope you will give to yourself. I am grateful, first, that God hand-builds for each of us a [...]
