“Crazy. I was just about to call you.” I can almost hear his smile on the other end of the line. “That’s just the way it is when you have been married a long time.” His words confirm our heart connection that only comes after knowing someone, deep, personally, intimately…for a very long time. But I […]
I ache to go to the poor. People ask why. Why when our house is still in remodel-mode, our bank account isn’t overflowing, and we have four kids who we are committed to doting on…. “Why the poor? Why the needy? Why do the most neglected draw your heart, enough for you to get on a […]
She wakes, stumbles downstairs, nothing in hand, clinging to the mug she sips coffee from. And He waits… Kids clamor awake. She pulls herself up from her slumbering state, feeding them, gets them ready for their day. And He waits…. Bus comes. Finally the house is silent. The demands of little hands aren’t there pulling at […]
It all starts in the Secret Place. I worship. Come to Him with weeping. My heavy yoke burdening me. It’s time its His. Again. I enter the tent of Asian. The Holy Place where His glory lives…a place where mere words are far from sufficient. It falls away like scales. These weights, all burdens slowing my […]
My seven -year-old adopted daughter is partially deaf. I stand there, between clothes racks, witnessing hands moving between strangers. In conversation without words. I interrupt with my lips, not even thinking that they may have no voice and that I might make a complete fool of myself. One vocalizes clearly in response, and I am relieved. She […]
According to Universe time…my husband and I knew each other about three seconds before getting married and starting a family. We were in our early twenties, being children in every sense of the word. Survivalist searching for a fairy-tale love, some romantic fulfillment that promises, “Love does exist”. But while offering our lives to work, serving […]