Mar 5, 2012 | Moments of Grace
It was a pretty simple one, as emails go. But reading it 12 days later still brings a tear to my eye. To my friend Rigg Love you…heard you had a bad day… Coming by to see you Lis And shortly there at the door she was. With chicken salad and pasta salad and bread, and...
Jan 29, 2012 | Moments of Grace
I first started to notice the feathers a couple of years ago. I was going through a particularly stressful time, and suddenly they were there: falling from nowhere in our pantry; waiting on my doorstep when I got home from work; on the air conditioner vent outside our...
Dec 31, 2011 | god & grace
It has been a long time since I last found a feather. This was my thought the other night as I did some updating work on thedailygace.com. Have I simply not been paying attention? I wondered. But that doesn’t seem a very plausible explanation, since I never...
Nov 6, 2011 | Moments of Grace
An email I will long remember greeted me early this morning, coming into focus just as my sleepy eyes adjusted to the dawn. It was from my friend Pam, a kindred spirit who finds it as phenomenal as I do that feathers appear so pointedly in my life just when I need a...
Sep 7, 2011 | Moments of Grace
There’s one thing I know for sure: moments of grace appear in my life exactly when I need them. Some are completely unexpected and rather spectacular (my husband), while others slip in gently, as if content to go unnoticed. A recurring phenomenon is the...