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Designed to GROW — Designed to HEAL

Posted on August 14, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Evening, God, Just a few weeks ago, Suz sent me a lovely photo of pomegranates. The were growing in the UCLA Botanical Garden. Talk about being well cared for! This was growing on a tree in a very small…

Tagged with: Being Heard, God LOVES us, God wants to help us
Posted in connecting, growing toward up, Growth Opportunities, healing, the Growth Mindset

Focusing on Beauty

Posted on August 13, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Evening, God Now that it has come to me that I have a free hand to DESIGN my life — within a variety of limitation — I have begun “paying attention.” The first thing I noticed was the joy…

Tagged with: choosing what I focus on, Designing my life, Practicing appreciation
Posted in connecting

Understanding Surrender in Our Spiritual Journey

Posted on August 11, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning, GOD Just yesterday my forever friend (and spiritual director) was talking about how her current word was SURRENDER. I said, wouldn’t Humility do? But, she was RIGHT. How did this understanding strike? This morning I was trying to…

Tagged with: being loved, humility, Jesus, surrender, The Holy Spirit
Posted in a matter of scale, a series of molts and upgrades, connecting, surrender, Understanding

Reframing — Better Understanding the Fruit of the Spirit

Posted on August 10, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Day, God I have always loved the description of the fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23 : But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and…

Tagged with: Bless BLESS and do not curse, Faith, god, marshal and direct our energies wisely
Posted in Blessing, connecting, Energy, Fruit of the Spirit, JOY, kindness, LOVE, Lovingkindness, Patience, Peace, pruned for fruitfulness, The daily details of love

A Burst of Color — and Bursts of Reality

Posted on August 9, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Day, God, July 24th I was backing my car out of the carport and SLAMMED ON MY BRAKES!!! What WAS that behind me? It was a pair of Texas Sage bushes that had BLOSSOMED over night. A day or…

Tagged with: Accepting being loved!, Embracing the hards, Joy, life, Love, The long journey of life, welcoming the Holy Spirit, writing
Posted in asking for help for myself, clapping our hands in joy, connecting, developing helpful definitions of love, Enjoyment, growing toward up, Help me to see, Helpful Hards, JOY, LOVE, reality, seeing, simple joys of daily life, the cold snow of reality, the joy of sharing, water and love

July 22, Celebrating Kit’s Birthday and Pondering my Life Without him

Posted on July 23, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Afternoon God, Time to reflect . . . time to give thanks . . . time to celebrate BEING here NOW. Here on Kit’s birthday. My grandson Ian ordered Birthday Pancakes when we went out for breakfast this morning.…

Tagged with: After 65 loving years, family, life, Love, refilling drained inner batteries, Reframing my life, restoring myself, The Gift of Life
Posted in A difficult freedom, a prayer for healing, a series of molts and upgrades, accepting gifts sight unseen, Accepting Imperfection, accepting my ability to REDESIGN, Adventures, Attention, Balance, Balancing and adjustments, balancing free with supported, Compassion, compassion to care for myself, complexity, connecting

A Turn in the Road

Posted on May 25, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning, God I woke up in time to get out for a walk to see the sun rise over the mountains. Kit and I started do this — watching the sun rise over the marina — back in Honolulu…

Tagged with: bible, christianity, Jesus, letting go at last, The slow work of healing
Posted in connecting, healing, My faithful body, Ongoing Transformation, Transitioning, Transitions, visible turnings

Night Blooming Cereus: Connecting with Nature, Community and myself

Posted on April 24, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning God, Yesterday friends texted that there were THREE night blooming Cereus blossoms open! I said, I will be right over!!! And I was. But I needed their help to locate the blooms. They were wrapped around a small…

Tagged with: beauty in a moment of time, Faith, finding hidden treasures, god, Nature, Spring, The moveable Mosaics of my life, The perspective of personal time
Posted in a series of molts and upgrades, adjusting, Amazing, appreciation, connecting, Needed Repair Time, recovery time, Reorganization Time, time

Day Two of my Milk Fast

Posted on March 5, 2026 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning, God It is Day two of my Milk Fast (plus homeopathic this and that’s) and I am loving it! But, perhaps more importantly it is the third month of my second year of bereavement. It puts me in…

Tagged with: Homeopathy as Energy Medicine, new awareness, surprising myself
Posted in a prayer for healing, a series of molts and upgrades, A Spiritual Spring Cleaning, Abundant Life, accepting gifts sight unseen, accepting my ability to REDESIGN, connecting, My Authority to DISSOLVE old limits, pruned for fruitfulness

On SEEING — large and small — near and far

Posted on August 22, 2025 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning, God These few leaves — lit by the early morning sun — caught my eye. So small. Insignificant. But beautiful. Then just a day later, I was out on my front patio at 4:00 a.m. searching the night…