God’s Grace With Skin On

Good morning... A friend was a no-show at a planned breakfast. The day after I received the following email. "I am heartsick I forgot our time together as I longed for it. I got my wires crossed because I am on overload and this flew out of my head. (She went on to explain the colliding details which helped [...]

By |2018-06-17T17:10:25-04:00September 16th, 2016|Friendship, Gratitude|

Centered On Her Assigned Seat

Good morning... In her dream, she is in a large boat snaking through a treacherous river (to get a visual, think about the Colorado River winding through the bowels of the Grand Canyon). There are no other people on the boat, no driver, no companions, yet this huge boat is inching through, seemingly too big for these rarely traveled [...]

By |2018-06-18T13:41:24-04:00September 16th, 2016|Uncategorized|

Pray Yourself Empty

Good morning... Having recently been through a life-changing loss she wrote: "Over the years I have collected matches from different places, playing cards, ski passes...all reminders of precious moments and places with my loved ones. And now, as I am going through so many things and having to/wanting to get rid, these collectibles have become painful reminders of a [...]

By |2018-06-17T17:15:07-04:00September 15th, 2016|Grief, Letting Go, Loss, Prayer|

My Plethora Of Pens

Good morning... As I prepared to speak at the kickoff gathering for the Moms in Prayer group at the Lovett School, I gathered pens for a writing activity. Pens from around my house. Pens from inside my purse. Pens from crazy crevices in my messy car. Instead of just gathering pens like a fiend, God nudged me to slow [...]

By |2018-06-17T17:18:52-04:00September 14th, 2016|Awareness, Everyday life, Trust God|

God Will Help You Deal

Good morning... I was recently reminded of a frightening experience. When our first of four children was born, he was not able to come home from the hospital with us, but instead was taken by ambulance to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania. We were told by our physician that he may have [...]

By |2018-06-18T13:44:05-04:00September 14th, 2016|Uncategorized|

Holy And Beautiful, Inside And Out

Good morning... Down every prayer avenue I knew, I immediately sent this request. "URGENT PRAYERS NEEDED: CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS: Wesleyan moms have reached out to our prayer group asking for urgent prayers now and at 2:45pm today. Please pray for William Parker, a Wesleyan eighth grader who was injured in a football game on Saturday at Woodward. William [...]

By |2018-06-17T17:24:29-04:00September 13th, 2016|Everyday life, Faith, Trust God|

Two Acronyms Permeate

Good morning... Today I begin teaching my weekly classes, one class per day. In addition, this fall I am forming monthly "Listening Groups," small groups of no more than eight women seeking to hear God's movement in our daily lives. One group I am offering is called "Practicing Prayer," the other is "Savoring Scripture." Since I am a visual [...]

By |2018-06-17T17:29:30-04:00September 12th, 2016|Everyday life, God's Word, Listen, Prayer|

My Deep, Interior Place

Good morning... God says, "I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live" (Deuteronomy 30:19). "'Choose life.' That's God's call for us, and there is not a moment in which we do not have to make that choice. Life and death are always before us. In our [...]

By |2018-06-17T17:32:57-04:00September 11th, 2016|Peace, True Self|

Jesus Moved Into Our Neighborhood

Good morning... God the Father did not work alone. As we have already read ...the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters (Genesis 1:2). Also helping to create everything from nothing, we hear of Jesus Christ's presence. In John 1:1-5 (AMP) we read: In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with [...]

By |2018-06-17T17:37:06-04:00September 10th, 2016|Abundance, Everyday life, Jesus Christ, Light In Darkness|

Gestating In Chaos

Good morning... One of the books we are studying in my living room this semester is Margaret Silf's The Other Side of Chaos: Breaking Through When Life Breaks Down. On pages 5 and 6, we read: "Transitions make you ache everywhere. They make you ache, in every joint and muscle and in every brain cell, and in every fiber [...]

By |2018-06-17T17:42:50-04:00September 9th, 2016|Prayer, Spiritual Growth, Transition, True Self|
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