Leaping Fearlessly With Muddy Boots

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 […]

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When Churches Burn & We Are Shopping Amazon. Confessions from an American Housewife.

I gasp.  On twitter.  I see it there…. A child extracted from it’s dead pregnant mother, pierced.  Crucified, in it’s own way.  Seeing Jesus, months before she has even breathed. And life sinks from me. I cannot inhale again.  I am empty, breathless. Just like that mom, that infants.  Unable to feel the sting of those […]

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Why The Church Is Afraid Of Being Real. Guest post from my Son.

It breaks my heart, you know. Just over two weeks ago, I was spending my days drinking up the Hawaiian sun. Picking my wardrobe was easy, when wearing a tank top and board shorts every day was expected. More time was spent in the sea that on land.  And the sea, oh the sea. Liquid bliss, […]

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Wholehearted Devotion…..In A Cave.

6:00 a.m.  Blanket of black covers windows surrounding.  And darkness is the mask….of sleep….and dreams….and all things unknown by the world deep in rest. Yet, in China….they would have been awake for hours. 4:00 a.m. The rising and fleeing to mountain caves and trees and places hidden. So, they can worship in the dark.   Before eyes […]

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