Row of Japanese Maples lining our driveway , now sit barren. Yesterday, their strawberry hews, fire blazing reds, pumpkin and canary colors hailed entry into our home. Now they stand like empty arms, barren sticks reaching helplessly vertical to the sky. A wind blew in last night. Without warning. While fruit bowl colors clung on for […]
Shattered Hearts & a Coming Conference
Elizabeth Stone once said, “Making the decision to have a child – It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” But what happens when that child is gone? What happens when children grow up, leave for college? What happens when time is cut short and your heart is […]
Why Fear Can’t Stop You
I wake as if from a different world. Dreams of tests and running in a competition I am struggling in. Caring about tripping, worried about falling. Looking around me, fearing, what will others think of me? I crawl to my secret place, pajamas still on, coffee in hand. Batting at the sky, asking the God of […]
Abandoned Treadmills. And Grace like Dust.
I open Facebook. Just got news. Asked to do something that pierces all confidence. How can I….how can any of us….stand tall,when we have been so small for so long? How do we rise when life has been hammering us, continually forcing us not to rise….Not to speak. Not to be. Like dust sitting idly on […]
People Don’t Wear Pricetags. You Are God’s Poem. UNITE Link Party
My second grader has been learning the “rules” of drawing lately. Straight lines, full bodies, stick-like hair on people. She even has changed her sunshine’s to shooting rays, instead of zig-zag lightening bolt-like rays, shooting out in all directions. She is learning really fast…“Stay in the lines. Obey the rules. Fall in place. Look, act, […]
The Day I Threw Boxes of Psychology Books Away
Charles Finney once said, “A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.” Every ending has a beginning. Every pruning has a new sprout reaching out for light. Every weary cloud has a sun waiting, a silver lining, hidden somewhere inside.And just like anything else, revival can carry us far from where God intended, if […]