According to Universe time…my husband and I knew each other about three seconds before getting married and starting a family. We were in our early twenties, being children in every sense of the word. Survivalist searching for a fairy-tale love, some romantic fulfillment that promises, “Love does exist”. But while offering our lives to work, serving […]
How to Break the Cycle of Hate. UNITE Linky
Sitting one car away, waiting patently, for caffeine. Drive-through stops, like a river halted by the town-car in front of me.And I have been learning….Anything not moving, not growing, living, breathing….will eventually die. Breathe starts slowing. Counting. 1….2….3….4….5 minutes pass. The car before me keeps chatting with the Starbucks worker. Maybe there is a problem? Maybe something serious […]
3 Strategies Toward a UNITED Life, Ministry, and marriage.
Have you ever seen a marriage, family, neighbor, or church…divided? It’s a gruesome sight. Like a war with casualties lying around, limbless. Often the result of divisions is a bloody mess. Still in retrospect, how many people really think they are the ones creating division? Often we won’t notice this type of war until after everything around us […]
Seeing God in the Stranger Who Sleeps in the Shadow of the Steeple.
We walk the streets of Vancouver B.C. Porches and vintage automobiles buzzing by speedily. Dull eyes, busy feet beat the streets here in this late night, city life. Dresses, heals, and suits in the latest fashions, stop and look at their imagine in the mirrors of the store fronts. I sympathize. I used to be one […]
Cutting the Apron Strings and Letting Our Children Go
She swooped the roller across her lime green walls. And once where there was bright colors. Black was all I saw. Covering like the sorrow wallowing from my heart. What happened to my little girl? Why did she want black walls? What had I done wrong in this life to make my sparkles loving, pink, tiara […]