Good morning... At midnight, every year, I envision getting on my tippy toes and passing my birthday baton to sweet Abby Smith. She was born on March 24th, 2004, that's twenty-two years ago today. At age seven, Abby went to heaven after journeying with cancer for five brave years. A bright light and a beacon of joy, Abby [...]
Good morning... Yesterday, at the exact perfect moment, we discussed the final two chapters of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May. Today, we wake up to the first official day of spring. Just like that, we melt from one season into the next. Katherine has this to say on the last [...]
Good morning... She wrote me a simple email yesterday: "iAmSon's 'Slow Down' song came to mind again, today, after your post. Enjoy!" I had never heard the song before, so searched for it on YouTube. It's quirky, with a choppy, methodic rhythm, the rhythm of bare feet slowly walking. I thoroughly enjoyed the lyrics and the music video, [...]
Good morning... After reading our blog post entitled Journeying With Cancer, a friend pulled out the words above. "This paragraph especially 'spoke' to me today," she wrote, "when I'm feeling frustrated with not being able to 'keep up' with my own expectations." Within the hour, another friend texted me the image below. [...]
Good morning... "Sue," she texted yesterday. "It struck me in your speaking about kindness in this morning's blog - I wonder if you have seen the billboards with Dolly Parton. As I was driving back from the beach there was a horrendously congested intersection of construction - with long lines of cars and trucks - everyone doing their [...]
Good morning... The bright light of tonight's full moon fills our home at 1:00 am. The Blood Moon of the total lunar eclipse, best seen in our area between 6:00 and 7:00 am this morning, will be more than 38 billion miles away (I think). I met an honest [...]
Good morning... It feels like the world is on fire. Doesn't it? Bombs detonating. Flames charring. Plumes of smoke rising. Buildings demolished. Lives destroyed. People displaced. As aggression is ignited in various corners of the globe, it feels like our world is on fire. Tonight it will feel as if the moon is on fire too. The Old [...]
Good morning... As we learn to see the larger and deeper grace cushioning life's harsher blows, we allow the Spirit's teachings to take deeper root in us. When the power of the Eternal assumes center stage in our daily lives, the veil between earth and heaven gradually thins. "I love this sentence of yours..." a friend wrote after [...]
Good morning... Typically, for the classes I teach, our winter/spring semester concludes just before Holy Week. This winter, with Easter being so early, our final classes are scheduled for the last week of March. "We don't want to end that early," my Thursday class protested. "Can we do another book together in the month of April?" I agreed [...]
Good morning... As my husband and I were away visiting my family in Ohio this weekend, our dog sitter retrieved from the front porch bag after bag, box after box, donated item after donated item. Yesterday, I spent time assembling and dropping off the fifteen Welcome Bags we created for the recovering women arriving for the ISP retreat [...]
