Good morning... "Look at the little monument God inspired me to tuck amid the ferns you taught me to grow outside our wooden gate," I texted my friend who will lay to rest her forty-three year old son today. "This little resting angel is a symbol of him living on with God, just beyond the open window of [...]
Good morning... "Thanks for going yesterday," I texted a friend after her first visit to PAWkids as a homework helper. "I would love to unpack your feelings about the experience. Would be good for me to understand how you feel at Wellspring in comparison. (My friend also volunteers at Wellspring, a non-profit whose mission is to transform the [...]
Good morning... Yesterday was a joyful whirlwind of receiving much as we gave our little. Providing a beautiful breakfast for one hundred inner city teachers at KIPP Woodson Park Academy, hearing stories of the tears of joy shed by the elderly recipients of our fun filled 100 Valentine's Day gift bags, and helping to host a Valentine's Day [...]
Good morning... "I have another idea that you could possibly help me with," Larenzia Lawerence from PAWkids texted me last week. "So, I wanted to do some gifts for seven outstanding teachers at KIPP Woodson Park, five women and two men. They help the kids in our after school program so much. I can see in their eyes [...]
Good morning... "Years ago, someone told me that humility is central to the spiritual life," writes Parker Palmer on page seventy of Let Your Life Speak. "That made sense to me: I was proud to be humble! But this person did not tell me that the path to humility, for some of us at least, goes through humiliation, [...]
Good morning... "God cares," she quietly responded after yesterday's post Does Anyone Care? "This is beautiful, Sue. I feel so alone right now and need to be reminded that I am never alone. Thank you." God's living Word carried on our conversation. "You are right," I emailed back. "God cares. God loves you relentlessly, forever and always. You [...]
Good morning... This week I happened upon a powerful quote by Madeleine Delbrêl. "Once we have heard God’s Word, we no longer have the right not to accept it; once we have accepted it, we no longer have the right not to let it become flesh in us; once it has become flesh in us, we no longer [...]
Good morning... Our written word community is beautifully living out the joy of 2 Corinthians 9:7 (CEB): Everyone should give whatever they have decided in their heart. They shouldn’t give with hesitation or because of pressure. God loves a cheerful giver. We were given a fun invitation by LaTonya Gates, the founder and director of PAWkids. "Sue, everyone [...]
Good morning... A few Sundays back, we circled up in a dear friend's lovely living room for our monthly book discussion of Anchored In The Current. Right now in the wee hours of the night, I am drawn back to some of the words we read aloud from page forty-one, words first spoken in the baccalaureate address Howard [...]
Good morning... "I thought of you when I wrote yesterday's blog, A Fun Tale Of Two Brains," I texted our friend Dr. Cathy Snapp, co-author of The Hidden Life Awakened. Since she works in the blossoming field of neuroscience, I figured Cathy would have some wise answers to the questions expanding in my mind. "This comedian is really [...]
