by Lane | Devotional, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
As we enjoy the month when the 4th of July greets us, freedom is a primary theme. Just look around. Flags flutter in the summer breeze, displays of patriotic red, white, and blue. Symbolic colors of freedom pop up everywhere. Signs proclaim: “Let freedom ring. Home of...
by Lane | Spiritual Disciplines, Writing
Play involves risk. Creativity embraces gambles. When we engage in the work of writing, we sometimes forget the fun of it, the way it can be a bit of recreation. The Surprising Joy of Constraint After my husband’s recent birthday supper celebration, our...
by Lane | Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
What’s your quintessential image of summer? How does it involve play? Bare feet, jumping waves at the beach, wading in cool mountain streams, swimming from one end of the pool to the other end, and picnics in the backyard round out my summertime vision. It’s being...
by Lane | Devotional, Easter, Lent, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices, Writing
On Ash Wednesday, I enter the dim sanctuary to hear my beginning and ending declared: “from dust you are, to dust you shall return.” (Gen. 3:19) The rector marks my forehead with ashes. In the starkness, I mourn. I ache. I long. I grieve. So...
by Lane | Devotional, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
In January, snow and ice descended on Savannah. Camellia blossoms encased in ice encapsulated the unusual winter storm that shut our town down. Behold, God, full of creative wonder, sprinkling white beauty in the deep South! Can you imagine the lofty Rocky...
by Lane | Spiritual Disciplines, Writing
Every morning, God is faithful. Every noontime, God is faithful. Every evening, God is faithful. Constant. Sure. Trustworthy. Ever present. Faithful. “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are...
