Going Without Knowing

“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might, He changes times and seasons…” Daniel 2:20-21a My heart overflows with gratitude to God for the changing of the seasons. Autumn is my favorite time of year. When I gaze upon his creation in the fall, it seems as if [...]

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  Today would have been my Dad’s 85th birthday. I wrote about Daddy here, but the thing I’m thinking about today is how he loved the fall. I think I must have inherited my love of this season from him. Daddy’s mother was from Connecticut and met his father there during the war. They moved [...]

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I am on vacation! And I am not going to work. I know this sounds like the definition of vacation to most people. I am not most people. I come from a family of worker bees. We work nearly all the time and when we aren’t working, we are often thinking of what we should [...]

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Doesn’t it seem like sometimes God allows something long forgotten to surface just when you need it? Just when it dovetails with something else he’s brought into your heart? I found this poem tucked away in a stack of papers today. Oh, how it speaks to my heart as I continue to process all that [...]

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Over on A Holy Experience, Ann is encouraging us to think about seeing with eyes that truly see. It seems right that Ann should be the one to bring this challenge across my path because it is through Ann and her blog that I am learning to see in again in a figurative sense. Ann’s [...]

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Father God, as I take a bit more time to process all you showed me at the conference last week before sharing it here, thank for these and so many more blessings: #281 Continuing travel mercies #282 Opportunity to attend the amazing STORY conference #283 Colleagues who didn’t email me even once during the conference [...]

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I walk into the Starbucks in downtown Chicago and look around. I am in town attending an amazing conference for creative ministry. My mind is full of all the amazing and challenging and affirming talks from yesterday. Outside the wind blows wild and the sky is gray. Inside the music plays perky and people drink [...]

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I’m learning some lessons during this season of frequent traveling. Some lessons are new; some are relearned. The lesson God seems to be teaching me this week is all about grace. I’m learning to give myself grace. I’m not good at this. Are you? It is so much easier for me to give grace to [...]

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Over on High Calling, Clare challenged us to look closely in our photography. The challenge for me is not looking closely. Macro photography is probably my favorite type of photography. The challenge is learning to do it better! I love how photography has opened my eyes to see things I would easily miss as I [...]

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How do you know you’ve become a super-frequent traveler? You have your frequent flyer account number memorized. The normal storage place for your suitcases becomes a corner of your bedroom. You don’t have to contemplate which suitcase you need for the length of your trip this week. You’ve come to know the inside of  your [...]

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