Good morning... As I put a frame around yesterday morning, from 3:00 am to 11:30 am, I hear one four letter word repeated. See if your spirit picks up the surround sound of God's Spirit. 3:00 am - our SueToYou devotional, Rest Is A Gift 5:00 am - Henri Nouwen devotional 6:59 am - Northside Church's devotional 7:27 [...]
Good morning... "Sue," she emailed after yesterday's blog post from Jacksonville, Florida, "that verse from Isaiah is one of my guiding verses: And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me" (Isaiah 6:8, ESV). I am reading Dane Ortlund’s book [...]
Good morning... We cannot fix, avoid or deny the pain of people in our community, but God can draw us near. We cannot say, do or express the perfect thing at the just right moment, but God can love through us. We cannot stop grief, tragedy or excruciating loss, but God can hold in our heart those stuck [...]
Good morning... Yesterday I woke in deep prayer for the families and friends of the two young fathers from our community who died in a horrific helicopter crash. As I waited for our microwave to heat up some day-old coffee, words from a hymn repeated often in our childhood church strangely sang up through the sorrow in my [...]
Good morning... As good friends treated us to a Braves game last week, she said, "I thought you were going to take some time off from writing your daily blog posts this summer." "Well, I was kinda hoping to take a break," I heard myself say, "but blogging each day has become such an important part of my [...]
Good morning... In this sacred moment, I welcome you to read Philippians 4:5 in various translations. Slowly. Quietly. Aloud with God. Which inviting words whisper for your attention? ****** Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. (NIV) Let your gentle spirit [your graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance, and patience] be known to all people. The [...]
Good morning... First thing this morning, I am drawn to a poem written on September 11th, 2021. The words help to integrate all of the sights and the sounds, the images and the memories burned into our collective conscience since that terrible Tuesday twenty years ago. ****** When the towers fell by Steve Garnaas-Holmes, www.unfoldinglight.net When the towers [...]
Good morning... At 3:22 am, I responded to my friend's invitation to walk today: "In the morning, I will enjoy our peer supervision group at Ignatius House, face to face for the first time since the pandemic forced us to meet by Zoom, and, in the afternoon, I host my first class of women in our home since [...]
Good morning... "This will be one of the most important days of your life," she said to her 10 year old son when he returned home from school on September 11th, 2001. Later that night she thought to herself, that was a stupid, terrible thing to say. The morning of September 12th, she apologized to her young son. [...]
Good morning... As summer slowly turns toward fall this sacred Sabbath morn, please savor with me a 360-degree look at the powerful shades of God. The God of gods, the mighty Lord himself, has spoken! He shouts out over all the people of the earth in every brilliant sunrise and every beautiful sunset, saying, “Listen to me!” (Psalm 50:1, TPT). ...Sue... [...]
