The world is filled with excuses. I know. I am the creator of the best of them. I have pulled them on, dug them up, lassoed every excuse of why I can’t live fully for God. You too? See there is just something about smallness that makes us want to breath deep and crawl up into […]
I don’t know what came over her. Like a seed, lying dormant. Coming alive. In that in-between. Child exiting to women-hood. This morning. Not speaking. Her silence. Deafening. Like the white page I look at. Before typing. Pure. Barren. Sacred. Holy. Careful, so as not to stain a page….Waiting for answers. And why is…. Wonder always […]
Hours. Leaving. Far away from…..the world I once put on a pedestal. And I see… God has been preparing me…. For this season. This day. Long ago. Begging…“Lord, let me be……used by you.” And with weeping. Pleading. Thinking all hope of being used….. Had already passed. Here I am. Waiting. To fly……to China. Holding out…..barren hands….like […]
Word hungry…..before leaving. Surrender. Time on my knees….The only way to strength. And I hold out this day….in palms of hope. Offering it as a sacrifice…. That He would take it. Make it. Not mine….but His own. Lists growing long. China. Tomorrow. Schedules. Packing. Gathering for families. And yet. In deep tides. Rests tranquility…..still. Sustained […]