Good morning... Life phases joined hands in the church hallway. A few weeks back, we hosted our United Methodist Women's Baby Celebration, a touching event honoring the babies born annually into our faith community. This was a particularly special celebration as five or six of the very active UMW members were new grandmothers at the gathering. These faithful [...]
Good morning... Right here. Right now. There is always something to savor. As I wake this Sabbath, I gush a quick list. sunny, blue winter sky (a welcome change from days of grey drizzle) the joyful love of our quirky dogs surprise overnight visit from our youngest daughter and friends (homemade Stromboli is a magnet) surprise overnight visit [...]
Good morning... After journaling with God for a few early morning hours, I got up from our cozy couch to craft a new insight for our blog. Before writing to you, I opened the Henri Nouwen Society devotional thought for this day. What I planned to write was trumped by fresh wisdom being born. ****** DAILY MEDITATION | [...]
Good morning... "Sue, this is great!" she wrote after yesterday's post. "It surely speaks of me and to me. I've written the opening paragraph on a 'stick-um' and put it on the mirror on my dresser as a simple reminder each day." BE HERE - BE NOW - BE PRESENT NOT IN PAST NOT IN FUTURE [...]
Good morning... "Be where your feet are," our pastor said in his sermon on Sunday. Be not in the past. Be not in the future. Be here. Be now. Be present. He admits, "This is really hard for me, to be where my feet are." I suspect we all battle the same human tendency, to obsess about the [...]
Good morning... I was there when my husband faced a dilemma. He, the Upper School Chaplain, wrote about the incident in this week's devotional email sent to subscribers in The Lovett School community. ***** Act 6 Devotional by Rev. Steve Allen I was in a discussion recently with a group of friends. Things got pretty heated between some [...]
Good morning... The annual tradition of our Women's Lenten Communion Service began in 2007. Working as Discipleship Coordinator in the Children's Ministry at the time, I was invited to be the inaugural speaker of this new Lenten event. None of us knew that by January 2008 God would equip me to become the second full-time Women's Ministry Director at [...]
Good morning... Our Saturday breakdown in communication really had no rhyme and no reason. I checked everything I knew to check and found no sign of why we got "Oops. This Page Could Not Be Found!" instead of our post "So It Was With Marian." In my life "no rhyme or reason" usually has God's fingerprints all over it, [...]
Good morning... Yesterday's mysterious breakdown in connection with our morning message, "So It Was With Marian," occurred when I was nestled in the Macon Centreplex, in Macon, Georgia. We were watching our youngest son compete to a third place finish in the 132 lb. weight class in the Georgia High School Association wrestling tournament and cheering on other [...]
Good morning... "The Inner Meaning of Jesus' Parables," reads the subtitle of a Christian classic published in 1970 by John A. Sanford, who was an American Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest. I am an "inner meaning" girl. I love Jesus. I find his parables fascinatingly fun to ponder, so I am intrigued by Sanford's work exploring "the inner [...]
