Good morning... "Your picture with the Lauren Daigle video made me think of this," she wrote. "I keep this on my mirror. We are definitely on the same wavelength." I’m thanking you, God, out loud in the streets, singing your praises in town and country. The deeper your love, the higher it goes; every cloud is [...]
Good morning... "Good morning Sue," she wrote last week. "I want to highly recommend this book by Scott Sauls, The Gentle Answer. He writes: 'Jesus and Christianity do not discriminate between good people and bad people. Instead, Jesus and Christianity discriminate between humble people and proud people. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James [...]
Good morning... On November 5th, Lauren Daigle, one of my favorite artists, released a new recording of her soulful song, "You Say." Reminding us all that we are loved, we are strong, and we are held, might this music video be our morning prayer? ...our many-ness becomes one-ness—Christ doesn’t become fragmented in us. Rather, we become unified in [...]
Good morning... Sipping our morning coffee, we taste our half and half. Half sad. Half happy. Half mad. Half relieved. Half scared. Half excited. Only our Three-in-One God can embrace each half and make us whole. Now may the Lord Jesus Christ and our Father God, who loved us and in his wonderful grace gave us eternal comfort [...]
Good morning... Every day I love the dog calendar my dear friend gifted me. I adore the cute photo from Election Day 2020, but even more I love the Will Rogers quote: "I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons." A few minutes after flipping to the above calendar page, I happened upon the comforting video [...]
Good morning... He has made everything beautiful in its appropriate time. He has also put obscurity in their hearts so that no one comes to know the work that God has done from the beginning to the end (Ecclesiastes 3:11, MEV). "Imagine that you're unwell and in a foul mood, and you're driving through some lovely countryside," writes [...]
Good morning... In his message as a high school chaplain, recorded the day before Election Day 2020 and shared the day after all votes were cast, my husband Steve challenges us to asks ourselves, "What if? What if we have to live with people who don't think like us, believe like us, act like us, or vote like [...]
Good morning... A "crystal ball" is defined as a glass orb used by fortune-tellers and mystics in popular culture to see into the future. By extension, "looking into a crystal ball" means seeking to predict future events. Broadening the concept further, "looking into God's crystal ball" means that we see ourselves as an integral part of the glorious future God is orchestrating. [...]
Good morning... The tumultuous waves of this unique day have been building strength on our horizon for a long while now. Waking up into what will be, we fix our eyes on the Gentle Equalizer. Even the largest, stormiest waves dissipate naturally into God's eternal ebb and flow. The sea remains the sea, constant, reliable, fluid. Participating in [...]
Good morning... The Results of an I-Centered Life is the title of Rick Warren's devotional message from October 28th, 2020. “When ‘I’ am at the center of everything in my life, that’s sin,” writes Rick. “We all have an 'I' problem: I want it my way; I will do my thing; I have to take care of myself first; [...]
