It was only days. Days of forcing my face to look upon their scars. I knew I had a home across the ocean, around the water, on the other side of the globe… One where feathered beds can keep me, warm compassionship knew me, and a life kept tight from trauma like I had seen at […]
Y’all SIX! That’s right, six HUGE garbage bags stuffed plum FULL of clothes from my closet. Clothes I never wear. And before I continue, I think it is important to make clear, I am far from a hoarder, someone who keeps things for their emotional value. STUFF really doesn’t matter to me. PEOPLE do. But, God […]
Less than one percent. That was it. I couldn’t understand it, but facts never lie. From the time I was a little girl, I was saturated with the understanding that my Grandparents migrated from Norway. My parents owned the leather trunk my ancestors brought over, made krumkake, dangled red flags with indigo blue and white lined […]
There is a piece of his house, this heart, that only the angels see. Here in the waking of my dreams, and the dying of my will. In the disruption of my purpose, I hear His voice most clear….hear, now, in this moment of eternity… Not in tomorrow, or yesterday, not in the grasping or gripping, […]
I cannot get over it. The face of an infant. The quiet, helplessness of a child born dependent on others for everything it needs. No human strength, no internal support, no hands to cloth itself or words to cry out, vocalizing what it needs. Just rest, and stillness, and a mumbling sound that alerts the world […]
What’s your ministry? Your calling? What makes you happy?” We hear messages like these often, as Christians. In fact, it’s easy to grow immune in a “me” culture, to the subtle world-view sneaking into what was intended to be a simple, relationship with Jesus. In fact, “you” messages can permeate every aspects of our living; from career […]