by Jody Lee Collins | May 4, 2023 | Life & Faith, Spiritual Practice
How does worry drive our prayers? I’ve been pondering this a lot lately as God has forced my hand at surrendering to Him what I cannot control. The truth is there will always be something amiss to inhabit our prayers and lead us into worry. We live in a...
by Jody Lee Collins | Mar 2, 2023 | Spiritual Practice
In a previous lifetime I spent many years in elementary classrooms and labored through daily routines required for young learners. One such activity was a calendar exercise where teachers dutifully pointed to a one-dimensional rectangular graph of squares labeled with...
by Jody Lee Collins | Oct 16, 2022 | Spiritual Practice
The first verses of Isaiah Chapter six begin, “In the year that King Uzziah died….” and proceed to describe just what it was like when God’s presence filled the temple. What a way to worship. (Go ahead, read it. I’ll wait.) Anchoring a year by identifying...
by Jody Lee Collins | Sep 5, 2022 | On Reading, Spiritual Practice
My husband and I sat for a few moments in the waning daylight of September’s first day, swatting away persistent mosquitoes and chatting about unfinished summer projects. The bittersweet end of August that sidles up to the beginning of Autumn always surprises me...
by Jody Lee Collins | Aug 7, 2022 | Spiritual Practice
I got a notice from the Neptune Society this week. Seriously. I felt like calling or emailing them to say, “I’m turning 70 this week. I am not dying.” It’s weird to do the math confirming I am, in fact, entering my eighth decade and realize I...
by Jody Lee Collins | Feb 16, 2022 | Spiritual Practice
There are times in the dead of winter that I have a hard time imagining ANYTHING will every be growing or blooming in my flower beds. Then Spring and Summer come and it’s an EXPLOSION of color that can’t be contained. Somewhere in the middle of all that...
