Good morning... Some of you know that I am waking up this morning surrounded by one of my favorite places on earth. Today, my expectant eyes open in silence, alone, to a stark little room filled with each necessary amenity. I wake from sleep at the Ignatius House Jesuit Retreat Center, where am taking my first three day weekend [...]

Good morning... Have you ever caught a glimpse of God's Spirit ministering? In awe, look at the tie between the following three emails. First, two days ago fighting inner resistance I posted a chain letter of blessing from a very close friend (see "My secret confession."). Walk away from drama and people who create it. Surround yourself with people [...]

ood morning... As I pushed send on yesterday's post, "My secret confession," I cracked up when I returned to my inbox and found another chain letter smiling at me. Again, this is a loving message sent from a dear, dear friend, one of those special people who will never have a duplicate. Maybe the LORD likes these chain letters [...]

Good morning... I have a secret confession to make. I hate chain letters. You know the type of emails requiring you to pass along the message to a specific number of people, in a specific amount of time, or else countless blessings will not rush forth or ugly curses will somehow befall. Honestly I often love what is written [...]

Good morning... To understand more fully the inner workings of authentic prayer, let's join Jesus in Matthew 26:36-46 (AMP). Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane (olive-press), and He told His disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He [...]

Good morning... Many of you have written to ask how my Sunday school class on prayer turned out, when I had to teach on a confusing passage of scripture (see my post from 1.18.16, "Teaching a verse I do not understand.") I was assigned to teach on Mark 11:24 (NIV), and I had no idea what to do with [...]

Good morning... When I juggle too many balls at once, just before a deadline strikes midnight, the eleventh hour is usually very spiritually productive. Unfortunately, I am overwhelmed by the eleventh hour striking me right now. Because God often wakes me in the middle of the night to teach me something fresh and new, I thought the "fresh and [...]

Good morning... Yesterday's post "Self doubt erodes us," stepped on a sensitive, common nerve. After receiving a plethora of responses, I sat back amazed at the wisdom flooding my email. I am grateful to each one of you who took precious time out of your busy day to share personal thoughts with me. Because your email outpouring was so [...]

Good morning... Self doubt erodes us. With the opportunity to see who subscribes and who unsubscribes from my "sue2you" blog each day, I expected to return home to "unsubscribe", "unsubscribe", "unsubscribe." All the way back from Jacksonville, Florida, I unconsciously kept my car on the road as my mind was flooded with growing self doubt. Last Saturday morning, I [...]

Good morning… Last week I enjoyed a special experience. I co-taught my first Christian Active Parenting (CAP) class. For the past several years, my close friend Melody and I have collaboratively worked on adding scriptural underpinnings beneath the lifetime work of her husband, psychologist Dr. Michael Popkin. Over thirty years ago, Michael created his first Active Parenting program, a [...]