“I hate my skin”. I hear from the backseat. Words not from a “cutting” teenager….but a seven-year-old. A child not even a decade. Worse yet, it was my child saying this. Her preschool aged brother then nonchalantly suggests, “Well then, why don’t you just shave it off.” I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh at […]
Ever just want to leap off of the cliff of fear and doubt; wings spread, eyes lifted to the heavens, going were the wind calls? I knew those words were trouble. Drawn to them, but repelled simultaneously…as they sit on my laptop, hidden under the invite from Amy Sullivan..“Will you join me?” But, this year […]
I see him. Greeting time. Standing in the back of the church. Against the wall. Coffee. Small talk. People wondering….how long they must chat…..before sitting idol for service again. Tall one. 6 foot plus. Long haired. Giant. Biker-like. Straggly hair. Leather wearing. Intimidating one. Alone. No one introducing. Not fitting in with….the one’s around him mindlessly […]
And He whispers…..“Be Real”. And yet, I come to him bottled up without notions of what real is. Like a shroud covering…. Layer over layer. Felt…but not noticed. So long imposed… And I see them. The masked. Religious. Hiding in black. And I ache for them. The nameless, faceless ones.Unseen. Unknown. Unnoticed. Unloved… But then, I […]