“I can teach you how to fly.” Those were the words, spoken to me in a dream last year, by a wise woman I call “Macrina/Judi.” Macrina is Macrina Weiderkehr, an author who has accompanied me on my spiritual journey for the past ten years. And Judi is Judi Dench, the actress. In this particular [...]
After Wally leaves for work, I bring my Bible, journal, and tea into the garden. A light mist hovers over the fields across the road, and I am surprised to see tender green shoots of corn forming rows where yesterday there was nothing but dirt. All around me, Dame’s Rocket thrusts purple and white spires [...]
“To lose faith is to stop looking. To lose faith is to decide that all you ever saw from afar was your own best dreams.” Frederick Buechner Boy, can I relate to this quote today. Do you ever get tired of praying and not getting answers? Feel like arrow prayers zoom into space, never finding [...]
This week, last year, I was in Rome with Bridge for Peace, an international healing ministry. The team consisted of Ed, Annette, Mark, Nora, my husband Wally, and I. We were there to pray for priests and religious, mainly from third-world countries. Men and women of God far away from home, studying for doctorates or [...]
I can’t believe it—the sun is shining! Have you ever taken sunlight for granted until it disappeared for weeks on end? I have, but no more. Today I’m praising God for Monday morning sunlight in the middle of January! This weekend we had dinner with two other Safe Haven families. How I needed the intimacy [...]
In my prayer group last week, we spent time in Lectio Divina on Isaiah 43:1-7. The verses that spoke to my life circumstances were these: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the [...]
“Faithfulness opens the door to the spiritual insight that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or in us that is crucial. In the end, it is how we stand in that darkness that really matters. Moreover, sometimes it is paradoxically during faithfulness in the darkness, not in the light, that we [...]
Yesterday our hot tub, which is located on the deck in back of the house, burst into flames. I heard a loud crackling over the soundtrack of Finding Neverland, which I was watching on DVD. I wasn’t supposed to be home lying on the couch. I’d cancelled two appointments that morning because I was sick. [...]