My second grader has been learning the “rules” of drawing lately. Straight lines, full bodies, stick-like hair on people. She even has changed her sunshine’s to shooting rays, instead of zig-zag lightening bolt-like rays, shooting out in all directions. She is learning really fast…“Stay in the lines. Obey the rules. Fall in place. Look, act, […]
It is nearing 6:00 p.m. here in Seattle. And the pressure to get my post up for UNITE is looming over me. I wrote my post days ago…about an angel and a bookstore. But, after today…something is stopping me. There is a need to follow this God-prompting. For even once listening to our own flesh, can…in […]
This day opens up like a flower to the light. Like a child’s hand searching for delight. Like butterfly wings ready to soar. As I take a leap off the limb into more…. More…of what God has for me. Breaking free from bitter cocoons…. Not drawn away by fears beckoning…. It is this day. Now. That […]
We wake in anticipation of a well-planned day. Organized. Well thought-out. Structured in the most methodical way. Church. Then a visit to an Aunt, laying sick. Weak. …about to see Jesus. But when we rise. Husband sick…..Really sick. Second time in twenty years sick. Plans derailed. Kids and I venture out. To church alone. And we […]