I wrote earlier this week in my Substack Monday Manna newsletter about my husband, Jeff’s, Racial Justice Pilgrimage he helped organize with a group from our community. I was profoundly moved by so many of the reflections and photos he shared from the trip, but especially the story and work of Bryan Stevenson and the…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning and blessings, friends ~ If you live here in the U.S., today — Memorial Day — marks a threshold as we take our first step into summer (though school continues, at…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends, and HAPPY SPRING! In my little corner of the world, the earth has turned. The air drifts the delicate scent of flowering dogwoods. My son is making bouquets of stray…
I’m giving thanks today for the courage, sacrifice, and love of Jesus, and how he points us to the deepest meaning of life. I wrote this prayer for the dark middle time as we await the new life of Easter morning… Savior Jesus… I hope I would have been with Joseph of Arimathea… But would…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends, and peace to your hearts in this new week ~ Lent begins on Wednesday (!!!), and so begins the journey of 40 days (plus Sundays). If you have been part…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends, and a blessed New Year…. I receive such kind notes when I go long lapses without writing here, asking if I am okay. I am grateful to say things are…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Love and peace to you, friends, as we begin this final week of Advent ~ I wonder if you, like me, finds yourself not only in a wintry landscape beyond the window pane,…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Peace and love to you, friends, in this Thanksgiving week ~ These weeks have been full since I last wrote to you, with other writing deadlines and trips and many (MANY) no-school-days for…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Blessings and warmest of greetings to you this morning, friends! As I write to you now, many days out from the Chicago Marathon last Sunday, I am still absolutely overcome with gratitude. As…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Fresh mercies and hope to you, friends, as we start this new week ~ Before anything else, if you live in the path of Hurricane Ian, I have been carrying you around in…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends ~ Here is your Monday Manna….on a Tuesday. This is a good exercise in the “good enough.” When things didn’t come together to send this out yesterday, my temptation told…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Grace, peace, and love to you, friends ~ It’s good to be back. I’ve been anticipating returning to Monday Manna all month, but let me say, it’s been. a. month. Within a week’s…
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