We just talked about it again, trudging through the Christmas tree farm the other day. Our older two, two decades and more, a boyfriend, my ten and a five-year-old, in toe. Each year, we bring someone different. Is that because they need to know the story too? It was year two of marriage. I remember it […]
She’s five today. And I do not know her middle name… I don’t know her story and have never read the many pages that make up her file. And yet I know, she scoots between two people talking, clings to me for days, and called me, “Mama” within fifteen minutes of meeting her. I know her […]
My greatest teacher is age ten. This grade-schoolers shows me continually what it means to love, live, and give, like Jesus. We shut our umbrella’s, drive home from soccer, and race into the house to get ready for our Hope Group. The clock keeps ticking, my mind was reeling, and I imagine people coming early, seeing […]
Selfies on social media, ministries soliciting “follows”, businesses about titles and promotions, and even education telling people what they should be doing with their life. We don’t have to look very long to see our culture is self-consuming. Yet, invisible egos can hover around even the most innocent; making marriage about our wants and needs, parenting […]
Grade school, riding in our family’s van across the deserts of midland America. Empty space as far as the eye could see. Open skies begging for something real… Something tangible to see. Glimpses, pockets of water, trick my eye. Mirage’s washing along the sun-beaten road, or in spaces along the horizon. Yet, deep under every desert […]
I sit in the windowed nook. Humbled in this rare, quiet kitchen. Staring into open spaces… Calendar for the day filled with a coffee dates, racing two cities away, helping a friend, visiting with a family we are building relationship with. And yet, I ex-hail naturally. Her picture still taped to our refrigerator. Open spaces unravel […]