“We have just witnessed a miracle.” House silent. The one who placed this endless circle on my finger twenty-two years ago, stares up with me at the draping canopy from our king sized bed. “I know.” He whispers back. The kids just placed in bed. And while some miracles must be hunted down, dug up, searched […]
He disappears. Never a good sign when the house is full and the heart is empty. Children run across dirty carpets. Retriever hovers desperately, though all her needs are met. And then, an hour later he returns. Door shut behind, where I can’t see it. Zombie-like, my eyes stay locked on our open field….hands sunk deep […]
Ever wake one day and something you treasured deeply was gone…just gone? My ninety-year-old great-aunt bought property in Florida, decades ago. She lived where it was open, remote, free. But before long, she heard reports of a “bad community of people” living deep behind the woods that lined her property. At night their thumping music echoed […]
O.k. So, I am just going to be candid here. I actually had two other posts juggling about, wondering which one to post today. But then I sat down and did devotions. And for some reason, time with God always redirects our focus. It was then, I was stopped by the goodness of His mercies. It […]
Oh God, we come to you today as needy! We come in weakness, confessing we have no strength. We are like pilgrimagers, sojourners, plowing away through this toil in hopes to find you. And why is it easier to look for you in places and other people…than to close our eyes, be still, and absorb your […]
I heard it crash. One of those mother-moments when you know you could either “get loud”, or “get lower”. I chose “lower still”, tip toeing into the entry hall, finding one of my photos of my nieces and both my daughters shattered on the floor. I pick up the frame, not saying a word. Hearing my […]