Good morning... "Thank you, Sue!" she wrote after yesterday's post, We Find Balance. "I needed this today and every day! Awesome reminder." I felt compelled to write back: "Balancing on God's breeze is our pathway forward!" "Just wrote that sentence down as my reminder," smiled her return email. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking [...]
Good morning... Every year the month of May swirls out of our control, ripping up our school year routines, not yet sprouting the seeds of summer. Weddings. Graduations. Goodbyes and hellos. May holds crowded space for the death to what was, the "What next?" of right now, and the unpredictable nature of a brand new birth. Inviting a [...]
Good morning... "Last month, as the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting approached, STEM School Highlands Ranch joined hundreds of schools near Denver in closing temporarily amid security concerns," reports a New York Times article. "The anniversary came and went, and schools returned to their routines. But on Tuesday afternoon, the STEM school’s worst fears were realized when [...]
Good morning... As I turned on the news I quickly opened my journal. From an interview with the rabbi whose California synagogue was attacked by a gunman, deep hurt and deeper hope splattered quotes on my page. There is a war out there between darkness and light. America is a nation who believes in God. Celebrating our religious [...]
Good morning... This Maundy-Thursday morning, we meditate on the gentle gifts given by our Lord. "Meditation is like taking a little time to sit on a park bench," writes my friend, 93-year-old Christian mystic, Betty Skinner, "touching your old Friend's hand, feeling the warm sunshine together, gazing at the new blooms that have unfolded overnight, listening for what [...]
Good morning... "Hey Sue," she emailed at 8:23 pm last night. "I am being so blessed by reading your blogs. My daughter and I were talking this afternoon about the devastating destruction of Notre Dame. She asked me is this another sign of the 'end of times' read about in revelation? I would love to hear what you [...]
Good morning... After being moved by yesterday's quote, we asked a helper to run six copies, one for each of us to take home. On the copied page lived another set of wise words, words written by Frank Laubach (1884-1970) in Letters by a Modern Mystic. "I feel simply carried along each hour," writes Laubach, "doing my part [...]
Good morning... Yesterday's post took hours to develop. It took a long time before wise words from God trickled through one of you and into my inbox, wise words which then graced our morning message. Interestingly, God's teaching on time continued as I went to my first meeting of the day. There I was confronted by the quiet [...]
Good morning... I have been awake in the dark for hours now. Praying. Journaling. Pondering on a blank page, "LORD, what do You want to say through me today?" Sitting still in this question, jotting one dead-end idea after another, I have watched a multitude of minutes tick off our wall clock. "This is where so many holy [...]
Good morning... "My practice has always been morning and evening prayer," our new-since-August headmaster at The Lovett School said as she spoke this week to our "Moms In Prayer" group. "The past several months this habit has been more challenging. Quieting my thoughts. Carving out the time. At night, staying awake." "But there is a gift someone gave [...]
