“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 […]
“But I just don’t think I am beautiful”, Egyptian brown eyes look down at the comforter, wrapping her as winter taunts. “Why?”…”But you are beautiful.” I don’t even wait for an answer. Anger. Frustration. Boils in me. I try to hold them down. I knew this day would come. “You are sooo beautiful sweetie”. This mothers-heart […]
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 […]
I am not sure what woke me. Strolling closely to the double french doors staring from my canopy bed. Peering over the balcony rail. Groggy. Foggy in my head. I spot them. Tendering walking. Fluffy tails. Strolling as if the night before, they didn’t hear gun shots, or barking dogs, or lawn mowers eating tall blades […]
In His presence. Sweetness. Still surrender. Quiet fullness. Refreshment. Waiting. God heart showing. Taking nothing. Wanting no one. But Him. In His presence…. He is enough. And all the world could wash away….. And I wouldn’t care. Worries. Pain. Trials. Tribulations. Fade to nothing when gripped by…. His love. And love washes deep. In the quiet. […]
A chance to seize the day. We strap on boots. Take off on, Trail of Life. Not the easy road.Away from city. Noise. …Suffocating places that drown the voice of God. Head to wide open….. Where He speaks through all creation. Even the trees beckon…. As they reach with limbs of yearning. Calling through […]