Good morning... I have tried three times to write this Maundy-Thursday message. 1:30 - 3:30 am: My plethora of scattered thoughts just simply would not connect. I went back to bed. 7:00 to 9:00 am: After working diligently again, I touched one wrong random button. Away zapped all my hard, irretrievable work. Now it's 9:01 am: I give [...]
Good morning... Up in the middle of the night, I crafted a message with God. Then some technical glitch clogged up our communications, and, tired, I decided to go back to bed. I hoped things would work more smoothly after waking from my second sleep. Then an interesting thing happened. I was stirred awake by a song. A [...]
Good morning... By 10:00 am last Monday, three innocent 9-year-olds and three loving educators were killed in the safety of their small Christian school, before police put down the 28-years-old suicidal shooter. Then, by 10:00 pm that very same night, forty migrants (most from Guatemala) were left to die in their locked retaining cells as fire ripped through [...]
Good morning... At this time last week, things felt a little safer, a bit more predictable, a tad less confusing. Then a few violent minutes in Nashville, Tennessee stole the life of three innocent children and three caring educators in one little school. An excerpt from an article appearing last Tuesday morning verbalizes our haunting question: "Why?" ****** [...]
Good morning... Tomorrow marks the beginning of Holy Week in Christian churches across the globe, commemorating Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem for the last week of his earthly life. The next day the huge crowd that had arrived for the Feast heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem. They broke off palm branches and went out to meet [...]
Good morning... Waking on the day we would celebrate the brief, full life of Chris Kimbel, I was thick with intense emotions. The service of healing from the night before left me in a state of ongoing prayer for our friend battling bladder cancer, and news of another longtime friend losing his job abruptly weighed heavy on my [...]
Good morning... This is the perfect week to learn from a training on trauma. School shooting. Images of war. Cancer returning. Laying to rest a beloved husband. Powerful pleas for God to heal. In my tiny corner of the world, I am processing a plethora of strong emotions. Do you feel the same? Two takeaways from our training [...]
Good morning... Yesterday I took magazines, glue sticks, scissors, and evocative pre-cut images to our PAWkids therapeutic community group. I also shared my growing deck of Soul Collage cards, providing an example of our creative activity for the day. When we checked in with one another, as we do each week, one woman quickly picked up the card [...]
Good morning... "Sue, Chris is in the arms of Jesus." My dear, longtime 'soul friend' texted on Saturday evening. "He passed away this morning. All is well. Love you." Wow, what a touching message. Having walked and talked through this journey together for years and years and years, Chris went to heaven at age 67. Early onset Alzheimers [...]
Good morning... In our PAWkids therapeutic community group last Tuesday, we used "Blob Ridge" to describe our feelings. We colored in the blobs with which we resonated most. I felt like the orange person on the far right, being hugged and supported throughout my best birthday week ever. At the same time I felt like the yellow person [...]
