Good morning... As she read to me over the phone this poem by Ranier Maria Rilke, I calmed into my body in a very settled way. "Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me." Embodying this whisper, everything is [...]
Good morning... "God, thank You for allowing me to sleep through the night." This prayer fills me as I wake. Extended sleep is a rare occurrence for me, a listening nocturnal writer. "7:34," says my phone as I take my first peek. What a restorative luxury, this sleeping through the night. Now my prayers lift a protective covering [...]
Good morning... Many have lost loved ones this week all over the globe, but personally I have been touched by five deaths and one life. "I shed a few tears on the way to work," my husband said after school last Monday. "Eric Carmen died over the weekend, and they were playing his songs in tribute. I used [...]
Good morning... I am still processing my most vulnerable post from this month, "Did I Suck As A Teacher?" When I taught the Enneagram to a new group of women, I let the Spirit lead. By the end of the interactive night, I felt like God left us all in the confusing dark, not understanding this ancient tool [...]
Good morning... "A dear friend sent this to me," she texted yesterday. "Thought it was too lovely not to share with my other dear friend Sue!" With too many cooks in my mind's chaotic kitchen, I opened the blog post. Breathing. Focusing. Taking time. I fed on calming wisdom. ****** A New Prayer for Anxiety by Esther Liu, [...]
Good morning... Up in the middle of the night, I read the Post Hope blog message crafted by Elizabeth, the daughter-in-law of my longtime soul friend. Elizabeth has been invited to share her story at a gala for the American Cancer Society tonight. Prayers go out to her, her friends and her family as they attend this long [...]
Good morning... "Soak with me a while," I sense God whisper, as I snap this photo on a busy afternoon. The dark and the light. The cream and the color. The wet and the dry. The simple and the sacred. When the Spirit leads, opposites melt together. Within us and around us, opposites melt together. It doesn't take [...]
Good morning... She shared with us a photo when we met for class, a photo from St. Luke's church in Baton Rouge (her husband's parents' church) that burned last weekend. We marveled at the cross standing strong amid the fiery devastation. As I later read about the fire, I was struck by this hopeful line shared by Father [...]
Good morning... We live through death. The death of a dream. The death of a special someone. The death of a life phase we so dearly loved. After the death of her son to suicide, Rosemerry tenderly expresses how it feels to still be here. ****** Still Here by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer After I did not die the [...]
Good morning... This Monday was different. I was asked to teach a three-part series on the Enneagram for the St. Clare's Guild of women at the Cathedral of St. Philips in February, March, and April. Monday was our first class, so I put the unfamiliar church address in Waze to gather with an unknown number of mostly unfamiliar [...]
