My daughter is African American. I am white. Although I grew up surrounded by diversity, we now live in horse country, surrounded by mostly Caucasian people. I know my Bible… Romans 10:12 “There is no difference between Jew and Greek, the same Lord over all, will answer all those that call upon His name.” […]
2 Tips for Increasing Faith
Opening door to the front porch. I see it. Sitting there. Dry, brittle, shriveled up as a result of the circle in the sky, beating down on it. Those baskets I love. The ones I invested in at the beginning of summer. Now abandoned half way through. I run to fill up the little red […]
Ever Fall in Love With Someone You’ve Never Met?
I am just busting at the seems right now! Feeling overwhelmed by the goodness and GRACE that has made it’s way to me…so undeserving. I have to tell you…I am in love. So in love. I fell in love even before we ever met. No…not internet dating. Not through Facebook, e-mail, or some other form of […]
When You Just Feel So Alone
I curl closer. Locking my arms around his middle. Tucking my chin down around the bend in his neck. Finding warmth from this freezing. Neighbors laughing. Stories of bears. Shivers camping around my extremities… Keeping me awake. Marshmallows still lay on the picnic table from the evening before. The coals now separated. Alone. Cold. Much like […]
How to Flow Freely in Christ in a World Made of Stone.
I see her face. The miracle I have been waiting to meet. Her chest breathes, up and down, up and down. And I rest in the fact that only God’s hand could have found her when He did. Something happened the last time I went to China. My me-eyes turned outward. They began to see God’s […]
The Secret Power of Young People
There it lay. Wings waving, twisting in the heat scorched blaze of a summer sky. Many walk by. My eyes fix to it’s noiseless cry. I can’t move. I stand protecting it, from passer byers crushing it with their busy feet. Heart aching for the plight of a lost one, fallen so far from its nest. […]