Be still and know I AM. Know I AM and be still. Some weeks are more stressful than others. Filled with more interruptions and unpleasant surprises. That yet hold seeds of possibilities. This has been one of those weeks. Shhhhhhh, The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. ~Exodus […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Caring for Self
He pulls the stethoscope from his ears and thumbs through my chart. “Have I ever told you that you have a heart murmur?” “No,” I answer slowly, almost in the form of a question. “Well, I hear one today. I’m going to have Sherry set you up for an echocardiogram. And it’s time for another […]
Friday Fuel for the Weekend: Dare to Sabbath
Go nowhere to go somewhere. Do nothing to do something. Dump fuel to refuel. Stop to go. Pause to produce. The paradox of sabbath. And sabbath is what chapter 8 of God in the Yard is all about. Trusting in cycles of strength and weakness, rest and work, presence and absence (or presence and hiddenness.) […]
Slowing Down
It’s late. The house breathes silent. Waiting. The night inhales expectant. Breathless. Soft light turns black to gray, illuminates alabaster earth skin. Hushed. Green glows gold and blue and white. I strung the lights and hung the ornaments alone this year. Simple. On sale artificial tree. Just a few color-coordinated ornaments. The rest left in […]
If I’m Still Enough
Sometimes when the light is right and if I’m still enough I catch the glitter of tinsel dust that floats above melted memories of magic and mystery in the waiting and anticipation of gifts delivered in the night and I long for simple times when I delighted in an unseen omnipotent giver and all I […]
R.E.S.T.
Rest. It’s my mantra these days. I wish I had learned it better before now. When the kids were at home. When I was always trying to do, do, do and be, be, be. When I was trying to satisfy people and satisfy my own perfectionism. It’s why I’m so smitten with God in the […]
Waiting in the Yard
In the end, this is the most hopeful thing any of us can say about spiritual transformation: I cannot transform myself, or anyone else for that matter. What I can do is create the conditions in which spiritual transformation can take place . . . ~Ruth Haley Barton (via God in the Yard, chapter 2, […]
Today In the Yard
Today’s the day. The day I start working my way through God in the Yard. For the rest of me. I know L.L. will ask me to spend time outside. Daily. It all starts with the sight of a nibbled mozzarella medallion. Fascinated with the morning clouds, gray tide moving east to west, I take […]
