“Sing some more Mommy.” Seven-year-old hands tug at my coat, barely sitting down, holding a paper that slipped out of my Bible from a funeral of a neighbor we loved. “Oh the Old Rugged Cross, so despised by the world, Has a wondrous attraction to me”, I fill noted full, heart broken for a world rejecting […]
Sitting one car away, waiting patently, for caffeine. Drive-through stops, like a river halted by the town-car in front of me.And I have been learning….Anything not moving, not growing, living, breathing….will eventually die. Breathe starts slowing. Counting. 1….2….3….4….5 minutes pass. The car before me keeps chatting with the Starbucks worker. Maybe there is a problem? Maybe something serious […]
It was almost immediately after I pried my hands open. Put down this blog. Gripping more loosely… ….That He spoke. I mean, really spoke. His purposes. Answering. Completely. The number one question most believers have of God, “What is my purpose here, anyway? What am I called to do?” It couldn’t have been clearer. As He […]
O.K. ready? Let’s just get down to it….1. Stop. Holidays can act like the whirlwind that picked up Dorothy and transported her to another land. A land where people become smaller, witches become real, and houses start to fly around. And around. And around. Dorothy always scared me. As a dreamer, the thought of being carried […]
Stumbled upon a pastor friend’s Facebook status this morning. Was trying to run out the door. Do Christmas shopping. Grocery shopping. All that kind of shopping that looses it’s fun. Right around this time of year. And of course I made the mistake. Left Facebook open. Beckoning. Calling. Luring me….until I read what I needed to. […]
Sitting. Like a gentle rain on a cold December day. I feel it…. Washing over me. Surfacing from a place, I didn’t know existed … Fear. Worry. Anxiety. A list of impurities. This camel back believer. Unaware. Unnecessarily carrying. Leaving. By the washing of His presence. Though…I did nothing. No more than enter. His Secret Place. […]