Pondering the Complexity of Abundance in Monsoon Season
In last week’s post I pondered flooding around the world. Then, on Thursday, I joined my friend Kelsea Habecker’s online women’s writing and reflection circle for the first time (you can learn more about it here) and the theme was abundance. Here in Southern Arizona,...
Being Open to God’s Gifts
I was on retreat last weekend and the retreat leader said this: We can tire of receiving God’s gifts before God tires of giving gifts to us. Do you think that’s true? How frequently do you notice God’s gifts to you? How frequently do you manage to turn...Overflowing
The monsoon season is here. Summer in New Mexico usually means sunny mornings and increasing heat, followed by the buildup of towering clouds and spectacular afternoon thunderstorms. I love the smell of rain, the coolness of the storms in contrast with summer’s heat,...
Clouds
I’ve been reading, through a couple of online writers’ forums, about the havoc being wrought recently by weather on this continent: tornadoes full of rain and wind in Pennsylvania, hurricane damage in Nova Scotia that left a fellow writer without power for almost a...
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