Love Inspired
5 minutes that will transform your day
You are what you’re doing right now
A prayer for these days
Stay in the presence of God
I love the way you worship, I told him. Because I did. I enjoyed the freedom he had to raise his hands shout his praise demonstrate his love of God Almighty. I get embarrassed, I told him. Because I do. I worry about what others might think if they saw me with raised hands speaking […]
Cause to pause
Walking from here to there causes me to pause… and then to consider what else bids me tarry. prayer & meditation sunrise & sunset starry skies & awe children & wonder worship play dis-health & disease caring & loving table meals & table fellowship phone calls letter writing Christmas cards births & deaths weddings & […]
Listening Up
Movement is my learning language. Stillness is my listening language. If I don’t listen up, my next move may teach me a hard lesson.
Lord, hear our prayer
You have given us a world of beauty, and we have spoilt it. A world to feed us, and yet many go hungry. A world of riches, and we are unwilling to share. A world to care for, and we think only of ourselves. Forgive us, gracious God, for those times your heart is saddened […]
Lead ME not into temptation
The Lord taught us to pray, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” ~ Matthew 6:13. It’s the oddest of requests really. Why in the world would God ever lead us INTO temptation? Do we really need to request that God not? Yet, I have been feeling a bit tempted lately. For me this […]
Who is at the door?
We endanger ourselves when we choose only what suits us and toss what doesn’t serve us. Lord, help me be one who welcomes the other way; one who engages the different approach. Cause me to open my door to accountability come /knocking/ just as I would to \confirmation\ come calling. It is by both of […]
Turn my mourning into morning
I am in mourning for the world I thought I knew, had such hopes for, dreamed such dreams for… My world, my oyster, Not mine any longer. Overrun By hate, by hurt, by harm. But Love, Love doesn’t insist on its own way. Love waits, Waits patiently for an invitation. An opening in the doorway A […]
Praying for Charlottesville
Charlottesville, Virginia, l’il college town, All the school year, full of UVA Wahoos, going to football games, going to class, going to pubs down at the Corner. Just like everybody. Come from Virginia and everywhere, to Mr. Jefferson’s University, to get a college degree and to learn about life, in the classroom and on the lawn, from […]