Good morning... In the morning from Vinings, Georgia, our twenty-two year old daughter captured this photo of the rising sun. In the evening from Minnesota, I received this text and photo from my nineteen year old friend, Joanna. "Hi Sue!" she wrote. "Thinking of you and just letting you know I'm doing well! Here's a picture from where [...]
Good morning... At my request, our twenty-two year old daughter sent me this photo snapped on her morning run. She has graduated from college, has landed her first temporary job, and is now settling in at home for a season of saving up for the future which lies ahead of her. "I am discovering that I like running [...]
Good morning... After yesterday's post, Life Is A Marathon, I received a brief email from Gina Palermo, the artist who snapped this stunning photo beginning and ending our morning message. "That pix reminds me of the scripture that says that the Lord will come in the clouds… Rev 1:7 - Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and [...]
Good morning... I am a non-runner, a total non-runner. Yet I am married to a man who runs most every day, a husband who over his lifetime has completed five marathons, each under three hours. So watching the Olympic marathons with Steve, the race for the women and the race for the men, was a fun part of [...]
Good morning... "I came home from the beautiful memorial service," I wrote in my journal, "exhausted from listening, exhausted from crying, exhausted from socializing. But as I sit still with myself right now, I realize that the most exhausting thing for me is knowing that these could be our grieving children. With their three kids born in the [...]
Good morning... One of my inner circle friends is an inner circle friend of the Haley family. I have kept in prayerful texting contact with my close friend as she inches through the grief process, intimately supporting her close friend, Dr. Carla Haley. Last Saturday both women sat together in the Pittsburg, Pennsylvania pews as the legacy of [...]
Good morning... "Hi Sue, check out today’s Upper Room devotional," she wrote from her home in South Carolina. "It speaks to me as have the recent posts you have shared about our voice. TODAY, my favorite day, I will work hard to choose to imitate God’s great love." Quietly, I chose to respond to her nudge, checking out [...]
Good morning... Last night I made twelve Stromboli, six to serve our son's high school friends in our busy basement and six to share with his college friends as they move into their rental home this afternoon. Straddling two life chapters, two different seasons, two separate towns - Atlanta and Athens - Stromboli chills in our refrigerator right [...]
Good morning... Last Wednesday morning, my calendar was comfortably full. 8:00 am - coffee with my daughter before her workday. 10:00 am - spiritual direction session #1. 11:15 am - spiritual direction session #2. Over our first cup of coffee, I received a text canceling the first session due to my client's overflowing workload. Over our second cup [...]
Good morning... Slowly, prayerfully, she served up a heaping bowl of wisdom from over the phone. Then I asked her to text me the sacred reading from miles away. Now we all dive into the delicious feast together. Foreign-to-me words now become for us a meaningful meal. "Epiphany, with a capital "E", what might this mean?" [...]
