by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 19, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
“Oh, the discrepancies between everything we want and what we need.” The first time I heard this song we were going through a rough time. I felt like my whole world was turning upside down. Grasping at anything solid to hold onto I reached for stability that no one...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 16, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
If singers invite us to immerse in truth carried on a song, then poets invite us to envision what we know deep down but can’t yet see. Poets are able to show vision’s path because they notice the nuances of life, of heart, of what’s real. Each nuance tugs open the...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 12, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
Music. How I love it. The variety of it, the colors of it, the emotion and the way you get to express in notes what you sometimes can’t say in words. I love that you get to act silly or passionate and give yourself over to the life of the music which somehow shifts...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 9, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
Oh, the invitations that come when we stop to notice what is happening in us, around us, for us, because of us. We see what we didn’t see before. We find feelings we didn’t know were there. We uncover longings to be part of something larger…to belong in a way that...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Nov 5, 2021 | Thankful. Grateful. More Fully Yours.
Recently I was part of a prayer group that encircled Revelation 3:20-21. I say encircled because we listened, imagined, and pondered the many riches of imagery in John’s words from all the way around it. It became so apparent to me that listening begins with...
