Good morning... For followers of Jesus Christ, Sunday mornings help us to deepen down into our truest desires. This morning as I revisit words from the first chapter of our semester's book, Sacred Rhythms, I come across the crux of our matter. "Your desire for more of God than you have right now, your longing for love, your [...]
Good morning... One of my dearest spiritual friends has a birthday today. After our walk and talk yesterday, I gave her an early birthday gift. This whimsical mug I found at Goodwill is painted with the pattern of her grandmother's pottery, a pattern she has adored since childhood. It makes my heart so happy to know my soul [...]
Good morning... In a few hours, many of the twelve women on our Friday morning class roster will walk down our weathered sidewalk and through our wooden gate. To the right they will see white inpatients blooming boldly since summer's start and flourishing ferns beside a row of Hostas nibbled upon by hungry deer. To the left they [...]
Good morning... "Thank you, Sue," he emailed me yesterday. "We all struggle with the fact that we have a deep and abiding love for others, even though we know with certainty that some will outrun us to the Father’s house. In a way, it is comforting to know that people have struggled with this reality for centuries. I [...]
Good morning... This morning I revisit the notes I scribbled during this week's Lovett Moms In Prayer gathering. As our community bonds together in a tumultuous time of grief following the death of two beloved dads in a helicopter crash, truths shared by the speaker continue to minister to me. She said, "When you don't know what to [...]
Good morning... Steve, my husband, heads up the chaplain team at The Lovett School, the school where two fathers of Lower School students died this week. I had just finished a long phone conversation with a close friend of one of the grieving wives when Steve pulled in the driveway that tragic day. "So did you hear?" Of [...]
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 [...]
