Good morning... On November 5th, Lauren Daigle, one of my favorite artists, released a new recording of her soulful song, "You Say." Reminding us all that we are loved, we are strong, and we are held, might this music video be our morning prayer? ...our many-ness becomes one-ness—Christ doesn’t become fragmented in us. Rather, we become unified in [...]
Good morning... “Prayer, according to Brother David, is waking up to the presence of God no matter where I am or what I am doing," writes Barbara Brown Taylor, in An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith. "When I am fully alert to whatever or whoever is right in front of me; when I am electrically aware [...]
Good morning... We were wired by God so very differently. One more this, the other more that. With differences dividing us, neither one of us felt safe being our true self with each another. Naive to the damage we felt or inflicted, we bulldozed each other back and forth. God's light shined on both [...]
Good morning... "So beautiful, Sue," she emailed after yesterday's post, On Broken Wings. "Do you know Martina McBride's wonderful song Broken Wings? I'm singing it to myself now. Xxxx." I had never met the song before, and when I googled it, the music video below popped up, a music video released on October 2nd, 2009. Sometimes our broken [...]
Good morning... "Good morning Sue," she wrote after yesterday's post, Some Parents Do Harm. "I discovered this beautiful book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charles Mackesy. Wow! It is a true gem that echoes your message today. Below is a link to his story and two touching pages from the book - just [...]
Good morning... "When parents are positive, you become positive, and hopefully you pass that positivity to your children," our subscriber concluded in yesterday's post, Make Good Lemonade. Next my mind asked the flip-sided question, "What happens when parents are negative?" Well, we know "negative" and "positive" are relative terms, and all parenting lives on a subjective spectrum. "Good [...]
Good morning... As I cleaned out my home office over the weekend, I came across a year-long calendar of quotes from various writers, two inches thick, a bit larger than a 3x5 card. The spiral bound gift, given a long while back, rested open to these words from July 4th. "In the black night, I listened to His [...]
Good morning... "We are good!" she replied by email. "Definitely have tough days, but who doesn’t?" "I had a mommy meltdown last week," I stepped through her open door of honesty. "I was tired of being primary shopper AND chef (even with four young adults and a kind husband to help). The anxiety of others had snowballed to [...]
Good morning... "Darkness - with its numbness, loneliness, and shame - very often accompanies a deep spiritual journey and can be the means to the knowledge of both God and self," says ninety-four-year-old Betty Skinner. "The freedom to love and be loved is often discovered in the darkness, so it is important to befriend it." Betty continues: "If [...]
Good morning... As I have invested hours upon hours creating a companion journal for our upcoming "Awake To Wholeness" Women's Retreat, I ran across these very life-giving words: "Only those who have confronted their pride and come to humility fully experience harmony in relationship with God, with others, and with self," says ninety-four year old Christian mystic Betty Skinner. [...]
