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An Easter Hallelujah — by Leonard Cohen

Posted on April 16, 2022 by a moment with god — 1 Comment

Good Evening, God I just saw this and longed to share it. Yes, even to folks who have heard it a million times. This is just an ethereal version. Apparently it was recorded by these sisters for their grandparents. An…

A Joyful Event

Posted on August 5, 2020 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Queen Elizabeth II knighting Captain Tom Moore for his significant fundraising for NHS Good Evening, God I had read about how Captain Tom Moore had pledged to walk 100 laps of his backyard before his 100th birthday — in order…

Unexpected Delights

Posted on March 29, 2020 by a moment with god — 2 Comments

Good Morning, God! And how good it is to begin my day with You…. Coming back from our morning walk I caught another glimpse of this beautiful green gecko on the bright red heliconia. Hmm. I see that this gecko…

A Morning at the Beach

Posted on December 10, 2019 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning, God! I love silhouettes! That way I don’t invade people’s privacy. And these folks — either going out or coming back from surfing — caught the JOY of the morning. Then too, there is the BLUE of the…

Tagged with: beaches, Being in the NOW
Posted in Abundant Life, appreciation, attunement, authority over my life, Awe, beauty, Being With, connecting, Enjoyment, web of life

pausing to pray

Posted on March 13, 2018 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Day, God! This morning I read — from a handout our pastor gave us — this poem by Mary Oliver. It makes PRAYER so simple. And I feel that is exactly how You want it to be. SIMPLE! So…

Tagged with: Mary Oliver, ordinary, pausing, simple
Posted in Awe, connecting, gratitude, Prayer, praying, taking time to focus

Embracing Enchantment

Posted on March 8, 2018 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning, God! The other day, as I was doing Centering Prayer, I invited whoever wished to come up out of my Inner Dungeon to appear. Immediately there stood before me — in my Mind’s Eye — a woman who…

Tagged with: AWE, Quantum Physics, Synchronicity, The Inexplicable, wonder
Posted in Awe, beauty, connecting, delight, Enchantment, Faith, Greening Spirit, mysteries

Being WITH

Posted on December 3, 2017 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Day, God! I am back home now . . . having been with my daughters . . . and having an Upgraded Appreciation of what Being With means. As I sit here . . . waiting for words to…

Another Perspective or two

Posted on September 8, 2017 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Day, God! We went to island of Kauai last week for my wonderful husband Kit to run a half marathon. While we getting our rental car I saw an ad for the Allerton Gardens. WOW! The ad featured a…

Tagged with: "size doesn't matter", Madeliene L'Engle, mitochondria, Moreton Bay fig tree
Posted in awareness, Awe, connecting, Perspective, perspectives, web of life

Wow! I’m HERE, NOW!

Posted on September 10, 2014 by a moment with god — 1 Comment

Then, this afternoon I was reading an article in Discover Magazine and learned our brain has 85 billion neural cells, 150 trillion synapses and an almost infinite number of ways of combining synapses. As the article said, “Possibilities are always wildly, insanely greater than the number of things around us.”