As the holidays come. Expected. Anticipated. Dreaded….by some. I must ask…. Who are you inviting to your Thanksgiving table this year? Thinking about years past….. First year with spouse. We sat, in a Restaurant. Just us two. Night before putting on my wedding dress. Then, those times as a child. House packed with Grandmas and Grandpas […]
I went to pray for the persecuted church. Thinking…..God can use me. His purposes will change because I prayed. But, reading, “The Heavenly Man”, as I curl up in bed at night before sleep….. I got a different perspective of what persecution is and my entire mindset began to change. Brother Yun says, “Embrace suffering like […]
We had not even left. When seeds stirred restless in my soul….. To return. China. Something more….than any place I have known before. God seed sprouting….planted four years earlier. In a dream. Seeing Asian children, inside an orphanage. And never imagining I would have really been there. The faces. The people. Somehow not foreign. Soil moistened…..by […]
The moment my foot touches grass, it is as if creation rejoices that I’ve abandoned tile floors…..and entered into natures home. The breath inside my lungs expands…..as I am….. Drawn outdoors. And I am taken, it seems, by my Makers hand…..To something more. A picture. Or a story. I have yet to learn…. And to be […]
The first words out of my mouth when I saw her was…. “She is dead”. Lifeless head. Body wrapped in blankets a mile high. Her skin transparent….. Weighing somewhere around five pounds. This delicate shell lay there…. On plywood. Screaming one. Beside her. Face born open between nose and mouth. Cleft lip. The cry of a […]
6:00 a.m. Blanket of black covers windows surrounding. And darkness is the mask….of sleep….and dreams….and all things unknown by the world deep in rest. Yet, in China….they would have been awake for hours. 4:00 a.m. The rising and fleeing to mountain caves and trees and places hidden. So, they can worship in the dark. Before eyes […]