noticing and responding to God in our everyday life
“to be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others” David Whyte Praying for each of you this weekend, that you may see with eyes wide open the ‘hidden’ gift you carry. Quote is taken from David Whyte’s poem, What to Remember When Waking. You […]
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This picture was taken on New Years Day. I can tell you a lot of facts about the picture. It was my birthday. I’m on the beach at Edisto Island, South Carolina. I had some alone time. It was lightly raining. The next morning we were driving back to Pennsylvania after a week with my […]
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(I wrote the following in the summer of 2012. I am posting it again, well mainly because I need to re-read it and remind myself of these words. Appropriately it is 9:50pm. PS I believe I have gotten less wordy in the last 18 months!) Can you go to bed at 10pm? Out of context […]
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I am sharing over at OneWord 365 today. You can head right over there to read…..or you can read this introductory post first and then go! Our words, they have power. “You are beautiful.” “I am sorry, will you forgive me.” “The cancer has spread.” We have all heard them. Words that smile. Words that […]
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Quiet has eluded me recently. Actually for a while. I miss it. I miss the multiplying effect it has on my soul. The way a few minutes of it builds margin for the day. “In quietness and trust is your strength.” The voices shout opinions and the sounds stay loud, oh how I need His […]
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It’s my little corner of the attic. Pillows and candles. Journals and index cards. It is thirteen years ago and I sit curled up in a ball. Processing again the news that there is no heartbeat. Five months of nurturing, dreaming. The room downstairs painted. Waiting. Anticipating. But no life will fill it. I […]
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I wasn’t planning on writing this. I wasn’t. But then I read this. About every third thought was taking me back to it. And I began to believe maybe my voice, even in its shakiness, has offerings on the conversation of race. And then today we went to Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. Afterwards we had […]
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It was my lighthouse, my prayer chamber, although I wouldn’t have called it praying then. I could sit on the north shore and on a clear day you could see the outline of Boston. Sorting out questions and hopes and dreams. It was my quiet place to go. My secret escape from a house of […]
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It’s 4am and I’m hiding the glow of the computer screen from a deep sleeping boy. His fever has hit 103, his body radiating heat and smells of sickness. But now he sleeps peacefully next to me. I’m strangely awake and check to see the five-minute Friday prompt. Encouragement. I look down at him. And […]
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We are sitting around our living room. Images of our wedding playing on our tv. For Christmas Rob’s parents had our wedding video copied to DVD. (yes, we were married in the VHS era). Our six-year-old son keeps asking when he will appear. Finally sighing and saying “I wish I could jump right into the […]
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“Yahweh your God is among you, a warrior who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will bring you quietness with His love. He will delight in you with shouts of joy.” Zephaniah 3:17 Last weekend’s verse and post was from from the coast of South Carolina. Ocean waves inviting me to the heavenly realms. […]
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“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1 Last year my word for the year was Stand. This year it is Uncover. When I read this verse it seems to be a transition verse for […]
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And this button if you would like to read last years:
