I’ve been spending quality time with women friends lately, noticing a common theme arising from our conversations – surrender. We’re raising the white flags, relinquishing crippling overwhelm, looming vocational transitions, financial concerns, challenges with our children, and for some marriage and partnership turmoil. We’re finding controlling our relationships won’t work, goals aren’t panning out, charting …
This week, barraged with family and work challenges and a full plate schedule weighing heavy, I felt like I was in a pressure cooker. Last night as I sauteed sweet potatoes and kale on the stove, I whispered a repetitive prayer in cadence with the stirring of my wooden spoon, “God help me, I’m overwhelmed!” …
Has a wonder ever visited, perhaps as startling and magnificent as a parrot landing from nowhere on your shoulder, peering with perky eyes into yours? Have you smelled the sweet scent of dew on the dawning of a spring, the first garden buds blooming colorful faces like little elves across edges of fine cut lawns? …
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I’m reflecting today on the presence of God who sometimes seems so near, far away as the moon, or gone altogether. I’ve written a short poem, and sharing other poems, scripture and writings that speak to the many ways God shows up in our lives. In secret places I find you, between blades of grass …
We deal with troublemakers, those crafty people who get under our skin, wrecking havoc on our otherwise harmonious families, workplaces and communities, spreading ill-ease like an infectious disease. The truth is, troublemakers are often troubled people. Often prideful, ego-maniacal, jealous, controlling, ignorant, unhappy, angry, well-disguised sociopaths or mentally unbalanced — and some just Godless — …