by Jeanni Shepherd | Dec 28, 2021 | Words for a Christmas Journey
“One dark night…I went out,” begins the chapter called, “There is Somewhere to Go.”* I read the words and felt relief. Encounters with God don’t leave us standing on the journey road in the same place where we were. Those meetings shift us, move us…uproot us from the...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Dec 24, 2021 | Words for a Christmas Journey
O Lord, you are so good to the soul who seeks you, what must you be to the one who finds you? –Bernard of Clairvoux I read this quote and want to sink into both phrases. If I count the ways God has been good to me in the seeking, more pictures come than words. Times...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Dec 17, 2021 | Words for a Christmas Journey
She told me to go back and do it again. I had already done the exercise once and was fairly surprised at where I landed. It was a “stuck” place for me that I was sort of aware of, but not really. The idea was to put myself into the story of Mary and Joseph as they...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Dec 14, 2021 | Words for a Christmas Journey
If I told you how many emails are sitting in my inbox right now, it’s entirely possible your opinion of me may shake a bit. Some are news and health articles waiting to be read. Some have been answered but I’m not sure where to file them. A few await a response. I’m...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Dec 10, 2021 | Words for a Christmas Journey
In a slow reading of Luke 2, the words “She was thoroughly shaken” catch my attention. It might be because I feel compassion for a young girl who hasn’t experienced much in the way of sorrow and suffering. I wonder what that was like for her? But perhaps it’s because...
