Welcome to 31 Days of Right Here
Welcome to 31 Days of Right Here. If you’d like to follow the series, you will find each new post listed daily right here. (See how I did that?) I am writing in a quiet house listening to the hollow...
View ArticleMy Portion (31 Days of Right Here: Day 3)
No one told me that 31 Days of Right Here was a euphemism for 31 Days of Kicking Paths Through the House and No Underwear in Your Drawer. I suppose I should have known, though, because when I say yes...
View ArticleRise and Shine (31 Days of Right Here: Day 5)
“Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.” – Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers My friend and I walk side by side, and she...
View ArticleMy Joys Mount As Do The Birds (31 Days of Right Here: Day 6)
My Joys Mount As Do The Birds Lord, I am happy this morning. Birds and angels sing and I am exultant. The universe and our hearts are open to your grace. I feel my body and give thanks. The sun burns...
View ArticleA Mother’s Fierce Love (31 Days of Right Here: Day 7)
Here’s my right here: I am a mother. I am a mother in pajamas — the only one awake in this quiet house, wearing an old fleece and warm socks to ward off the early cold. I am a mother woken early from...
View ArticleThe Fight For Right Here Told Through Two Tales of Epic Whining (Part I) (31...
Sometimes we don’t want to be right here. While that is perhaps the most obvious statement of the century, it’s true that one of the greatest hindrances to being right where we are is that sometimes,...
View ArticleThe Fight For Right Here Told Through Two Tales of Epic Whining (Part II) (31...
We’ve all got ’em. The irritating, grating right heres, the life challenges, the nits, the pits. The flat tire, the pile in the place you just cleaned, the missed deadline, the broken vase, the dirty...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Ordinary (31 Days of Right Here: Day 11)
“But if we more rightly understand that by faith we do not hold truths so much as we are held by Truth, then faith calls us into our experiences and is a way of being present to them, a way of...
View ArticleThat We Might See And Remember (31 Days of Right Here: Day 16)
Gracious, loving Creator, the one called Great I Am, the powerful All Here Spirit who sees and searches and understands You who are keeper of the seed, stillness of mountain lake and power of oceans,...
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