Walking Away From 2016

Good morning... A funky movie clip plays with my brain as I consider walking away from 2016. I feel like Navin (Steve Martin) walking away from Marie (Bernadette Peters) in the 1979 movie "The Jerk." "Well I'm gonna to go then! And I don't need any of this," says Navin. "I don't need this stuff, and I don't need [...]

By |2018-06-15T21:13:12-04:00December 31st, 2016|Letting Go, Trust God|

Put God First

Good morning... Clinging to our heart's desire can keep us from God's abundant life. When Paula D'Arcy lost her husband and her young daughter to the carelessness of a drunk driver, she was three months pregnant. In deep despair she was forced to give birth six months later. The one thing her heart desired most was a natural childbirth, [...]

By |2018-06-15T21:19:04-04:00December 30th, 2016|Abundance, Letting Go, Trust God|

To Cling Is To Shrink

Good morning... God reminds me once again. The word 'cling' in Old English is 'clingan' and 'clingan' means to shrink. Those smaller gods to which we cling shrink very important parts of us. Very important parts of us atrophy when we cling to anything but God. “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from...the place of your [...]

By |2018-06-15T21:22:44-04:00December 29th, 2016|Awareness, Letting Go, Trust God|

Alive In Interesting Times

Good morning... "Surely the Chinese curse is upon us: 'May you live in interesting times!'" writes Margaret Silf, author of The Other Side of Chaos, one of the books we are studying in my living room this semester. "And the ideogram for crisis also comes to mind, with its combination of the symbols representing 'danger' and 'opportunity' - a [...]

By |2018-06-16T12:02:48-04:00November 12th, 2016|Letting Go, New From Old, Trust God|

God Is Growing A Harvest

Good morning... As Hillary Clinton stood in purple at the podium giving her concession speech to our nation, she referenced a familiar Bible verse: Let us not become weary in doing good. Later scouring Scripture, I found my way to the reference and to it's biblical context. Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a [...]

By |2018-06-16T12:18:20-04:00November 10th, 2016|Community, Organic Growth, Trust God, Unity|

What Will Inspire Today?

Good morning... I prayed in bed for a long, long time before getting up to make coffee. I fell asleep last night to the din of election results, rolling in, rolling in, neck and neck. Strangely, right now I am savoring not knowing who won, sort of like when I was pregnant and did not know the answer, "Boy [...]

By |2018-06-16T12:25:05-04:00November 9th, 2016|Peace, Trust God, Unity|

Welcome To Holland

Good morning... Today many of our hearts hurt for an autistic boy who is forced to bury his father after a tragic death. A mother of another autistic child in our community introduced me to a story, a story that teaches us all about loving the unique life sitting upon our lap. "Welcome to Holland" is a thought-provoking, creative [...]

By |2018-06-16T13:01:59-04:00November 4th, 2016|Grief, Prayer, Suicide, Trust God|

Trusting The Tightrope Of Transparency

Good morning... Each day I write along the tender tightrope spanning transparency and trust. Developing trust in our living LORD, in God's Holy Spirit power, my vulnerable fingers need to listen well for wisdom. Encouraging transparency in myself and other people, I share the raw-real, expanding edge of my imperfect self. On the cusp between my conscious and unconscious [...]

By |2018-06-16T13:08:14-04:00November 3rd, 2016|Imperfection, True Self, Trust God|

A Fly On The Mona Lisa

"An important aspect of living through change and transition is the ability to take the longer view," I read aloud these words to my class. "A fly walking across a work of art such as the Mona Lisa would have absolutely no chance of making sense of what was beneath its feet. Even we, who think we can see the whole [...]

By |2017-09-01T02:12:26-04:00October 29th, 2016|Faith, Trust God|

Infectious, Radiant Beauty

Good morning... A new truth dawns on me. Beauty has nothing to do with age or weight, body type or hair style. Beauty has everything to do with radiance. Whenever our college-aged daughter comes home for the weekend, she loves to go to Passion City for worship. Last Sunday, she and I enjoyed the 9:30 am service. As the [...]

By |2018-06-17T13:47:31-04:00October 21st, 2016|Aging, Authenticity, Joy, Trust God|
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