Good morning... "We travelled through dark moments together," writes Katherine May on page 120 of Wintering. "I won't pretend it was fun. But it was necessary all the same. We raged and grieved together. We were overcome with fear. We worried and slept it off, and didn't sleep, and let our timetables turn upside down. We didn't so [...]
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 [...]
Good morning... Flying home from Ohio in the early morning dark, I looked out the window and saw the intriguing image above. We were flying forward with black direction arrows pointing back. Somehow it felt like the world we are living in right now. Confusion. Conflicting messages. Flying forward while being directed backward. It reminds me of an [...]
Good morning... Over this wild winter weekend, my husband and I flew to Ohio for a brief visit with family. As we gathered with my parents and my siblings, their spouses and a few of my sister's kids, I spent some quiet quality time with my mom privately. At age 87, slowly recovering from four years of various [...]
Good morning... When my sister Cathy came to Atlanta to hear Kay Warren speak a few weeks ago, she was concerned that her twelve year old dog Libby might not make it through the weekend. Then this week, on Tuesday, these words appeared in our extended family's group text: "Libby passed away this morning 😢" "Oh, I am [...]
Good morning... While we were on the women's retreat two weeks ago, I snapped this photo of a heart shape on the sidewalk. Revisiting it now, I sense a profound epiphany. When the dirt and the residue of our broken lives gradually loosen and fall away, what remains is the heart of Christ. As the song in yesterday's [...]
Good morning... On Sunday in worship, the musicians sang a song I had never heard. I went home, and I researched the gift. Humble Jesus by Audrey Assad speaks the truth we all need to hear on this dark Ash Wednesday morn. ****** [Verse 1] Humble and human, willing to bend You are Fashioned of flesh and the [...]
Good morning... In yesterday's post Little Eliza's Cancer, I explained how our Wednesday group has formed a web of prayer around our classmate Cathy, her granddaughter Eliza, and Eliza's young family, as she continues to journey with cancer as a four year old. One pastel streaked morning last week, I sent our group the Rally Foundation video of [...]
