Good morning... Slowly walking through the woods, I noticed a nutshell. Small. Sliced open. Simply symmetrical. Secreted in our depths is the dawning awareness: The shape of Christ is the design of me. When life slices us open and our "Big I" begins to die, our true self begins to come to life: I am made to mirror [...]
Good morning... Waking groggy from too much of everything, I see in the corner of our room one simplifying symbol. A small mirror, surrounded by a mosaic of heavy, broken pottery, reflects the natural light. A cross of driftwood pieces quietly rests above the mirror. Through the center of my broken parts, might the light of Christ still [...]
Good morning... We are transformed by our life-giving choice to spend at least 10 Minutes Each Day developing our conversational relationship with God. Focusing our full attention on who Christ is and how Christ loves us nurtures our true identity as a child of God. Ten minutes each day, we can do that. As I was deleting old [...]
Good morning... "Years ago, someone told me that humility is central to the spiritual life," writes Parker Palmer on page seventy of Let Your Life Speak. "That made sense to me: I was proud to be humble! But this person did not tell me that the path to humility, for some of us at least, goes through humiliation, [...]
Good morning... "God cares," she quietly responded after yesterday's post Does Anyone Care? "This is beautiful, Sue. I feel so alone right now and need to be reminded that I am never alone. Thank you." God's living Word carried on our conversation. "You are right," I emailed back. "God cares. God loves you relentlessly, forever and always. You [...]
Good morning... A few Sundays back, we circled up in a dear friend's lovely living room for our monthly book discussion of Anchored In The Current. Right now in the wee hours of the night, I am drawn back to some of the words we read aloud from page forty-one, words first spoken in the baccalaureate address Howard [...]
Good morning... Sorting through the junk in my purse, I came across the Henri Nouwen quote we discussed last month in our therapeutic community group at PAWkids. Reading this quote aloud together, I used colored pencils to highlight words capturing my attention. Might you slowly, quietly read these words aloud to yourself, noticing the words which intrigue you? [...]
Good morning... Today we are crossing the finish line of the marathon we began in 2019. Our planning for the Awake To Wholeness Women's Retreat scheduled for March 28th, 2020 ended as COVID forced us instead to shelter in place. Our rescheduled retreat day is today. Please join us in any way the Spirit might lead. ****** Awaken [...]
Good morning... "Makes me think of many of our conversations on Friday mornings❤️," she emailed me yesterday. She included the devotional thoughts below, shared this week by Richard Rohr. ****** Friday, October 29, 2021 Week Forty-Three: Original Goodness by Richard Rohr Being “God’s Somebody” Everybody is God’s somebody. —Bishop Michael Curry, Love Is the Way Episcopal Bishop Michael [...]
Good morning... A wise woman shared with me a powerful poem. Now I pass along God's peace to you. ****** The Anatomy of Peace (formerly titled "How to Live With My Body") by John Roedel (johnroedel.com) my brain and heart divorced a decade ago over who was to blame about how big of a mess I have become [...]
