Morning Communion: What happened to Thanksgiving?

November 15, 2025 A grateful heart. {good morning!} Iโ€™m determined to not miss this โ€˜give thanksโ€™ season. Lord, donโ€™t let me miss YOU. Donโ€™t let me miss Your withness in these days quickly passing toward a new year. Teach me to walk slowly. To look up and around. I donโ€™t want to miss what You … Continue reading Morning Communion: What happened to Thanksgiving?

A Great Teacher Asks the Best Questions: โ€œIs not life more than foodโ€ฆ?โ€

November 12, 2025. {A bountiful harvest ~ oranges} Day 12. A grateful heart. I am grateful for the bounty of oranges this year. Grateful because weโ€™ve done absolutely nothing to produce this fruit. And yet, it is ours. And they are delicious! We purchased the house with the means God has entrusted to us. But … Continue reading A Great Teacher Asks the Best Questions: โ€œIs not life more than foodโ€ฆ?โ€

Morning Communion: Will you help me?

November 8, 2025 {Imagine the dusty feet in sandals walking across this desert sand} Jesus in dusty sandaled feet, as You call me out of my comfort in the dark morning, I want to follow You. Will you walk me to the coffee pot? I want to drink my cup with You this morning. Help … Continue reading Morning Communion: Will you help me?

A Great Teacher Asks the Best Questions: โ€œWhere have you laid him?โ€

November 5, 2025 โ€œWhen Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, โ€œLord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.โ€ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit … Continue reading A Great Teacher Asks the Best Questions: โ€œWhere have you laid him?โ€

Morning Communion: Who owns the glory?

November 1, 2025 Pondering on a full moon setting. Anticipating the next occurrence of such beauty and brilliance. Iโ€™m not promised the opportunity to behold another full moon. The full moon 4 AM Awakened in the earliest morning hours by the light streaming into our bedroom window. It was too bright to ignore. Pulling myself … Continue reading Morning Communion: Who owns the glory?

Hear Him Roar

October 10, 2025 I couldnโ€™t sleep last night. Now thatโ€™s odd. Maybe I finally reached the age where I canโ€™t drink a caffeinated coffee right before bed? Oh Lord Jesus, please tell me Iโ€™m not too old for coffee. Caffeine could have been a contributing factor or the amazing Tiramisu we shared with the coffee. … Continue reading Hear Him Roar

Morning communion: How could I not recognize your presence?

October 5, 2025 โ€œBut Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened. That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each … Continue reading Morning communion: How could I not recognize your presence?