Good morning... I was there when my husband faced a dilemma. He, the Upper School Chaplain, wrote about the incident in this week's devotional email sent to subscribers in The Lovett School community. ***** Act 6 Devotional by Rev. Steve Allen I was in a discussion recently with a group of friends. Things got pretty heated between some [...]
Good morning... The annual tradition of our Women's Lenten Communion Service began in 2007. Working as Discipleship Coordinator in the Children's Ministry at the time, I was invited to be the inaugural speaker of this new Lenten event. None of us knew that by January 2008 God would equip me to become the second full-time Women's Ministry Director at [...]
Good morning... Yesterday's mysterious breakdown in connection with our morning message, "So It Was With Marian," occurred when I was nestled in the Macon Centreplex, in Macon, Georgia. We were watching our youngest son compete to a third place finish in the 132 lb. weight class in the Georgia High School Association wrestling tournament and cheering on other [...]
Good morning... I waited impatiently for this morning's message to pop through my groggy brain. You know me, I wake when God wakes me and I lift onto my inner tippy toes, my soul stretching to sense a living Word from our loving LORD. Slowly. Today possibilities percolated slowly. Way too slowly for my liking. "...we've forgotten about [...]
Good morning... "Aren’t we all still like that 20 year old in some way?" she wrote after yesterday's post. "We too must wait..." She continued: "I didn’t sleep well last night. Awake for 2 hours, thinking about all that is uncertain and all that needs to be done. I just don’t want to miss any piece of the [...]
Good morning... Looking directly south, I snapped this photo from our back porch this morning, just after God woke me at 5:30 am. If you look closely, you can see the well-lit dome of the Georgia State Capitol building in downtown Atlanta, the highest illuminated peak to the left in the dawning distance. Our new hometown is abuzz [...]
Good morning... This midwinter week, what am I learning about the seamless dance between living fully and dying well? Monday: The wise words of Martin Luther King, Jr. leave a life-giving legacy, inviting us all up the mountain to God's higher way. Tuesday: Blending the wisdom of my Florida friend Betty Skinner, as she nears her 93rd birthday, with [...]
Good morning... "I don't know if you get the messages from the chaplains at Lovett," she wrote yesterday, "but this week's aligns so beautifully with your waiting season." My husband is one of the chaplains at The Lovett School, and I have heard him talk about the devotional emails this talented team sends out each week, but I have [...]
Good morning... You early risers had to wait for today's message, just like I was forced to wait by the computer glitches I wrote about yesterday (touch "Previous" above to revisit our post). As I waited and waited, the prayer forming in me morphed into more. “God, help me to be patient with Your timing. Please hold me as [...]
Good morning... Writing my notes of encouragement for the "treasure boxes" being filled for our two spiritual mentors, I hit a computer glitch. Then another. And another. The little, colorful spinning wheel just kept on spinning. I was forced to wait. Time was running out on the deadline. How would this important task get done? I had to [...]
