Good morning... I like the word "spiritual" and I love seeking divine "direction," but I had no idea what Spiritual Direction was until God opened the door and invited me into the Richmont training program this weekend at the Ignatius House Retreat Center. To privately integrate my daily learning, God nudged me awake each morning, "Hey, let's walk." When [...]

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 [...]