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Permission to Rest

    I’m not able to fully rest at home.   Last Wednesday I woke with a pinched nerve and recovered just in time to lead a Friday/Saturday retreat. At home there were mounds of laundry. Tiny, flat, butterscotch-colored seeds…

When You’re Running on Empty

The life you save may be your own. Flannery O’Connor   I was wedged into a Bed, Bath, and Beyond aisle late at night standing on a scale. I gasped. Audibly. Still in my pregnancy pants, I was every bit of…

Day 20: Kingdom Spreading in Concentric Circles

I’m starting a new job today, Director of Soul Care at Holy Cross Anglican Cathedral here in Loganville, GA. It’s just 10 hours a week but I’m fantastically excited. I get to do exactly what I love to do best:…

Day 7: Whisper

“Enlarge my heart for this people.” It’s the kind of prayer-seed the Lord loves to water. And we have to start with seed, don’t we? We must begin with the tight humble seeds pushed into the ground in order to unwrap, to…

Permission to Rest

You are allowed to rest. This is permission. Invitation.   It had been a busy day, full of teetering stacks of laundry and ministry and the kind of slow exhaustion that makes one desperate for another cup of coffee…at 8…just to make it…

How to Be Still and Know that He is God

The three R’s, it’s quickly becoming Maddie and my “thing” every morning…perhaps it’s because of her giggles…perhaps it’s because I know how much I need it too.   Rest, Receive, Respond: these are the 3 R’s taught by Terry Wardle,…

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