Good morning everyone! Today I am trying something I haven’t done lately. It is for (in)Courage. It is a challenge given by Lisa Jo Baker. The challenge is to turn on the alarm in my kitchen and write for 5 minutes flat. Absolutely NO re-do’s, editing, or re-writes because I don’t like what I jotted down. I have […]
The Angel In The Bookstore. And When Color Draws People Together.
With writing overdue, swimming, infant respite this summer…I just couldn’t make one more decision. “Where do you want to go? School shoes shopping or the the bookstore?” Husband had been working late, it was well after dinner and I just didn’t want to go home. I thought for sure my seven year old would pick shoes. […]
Climbing the Mountain “to See”. UNITE Linky
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 […]
When Social Justice Leads You Away from Jesus
We care for orphans. It’s just what we do. From the time I was a little girl, I had a passion to help the lost, rescue the hurting, advocate for those treated unjustly. It’s hard work and not always fun. No one likes the trenches in a war. They are deep, dirty; they are darker, and […]
When Life Has Landmines. How to Respond.
I look around, outside my life, and see a war zone. Families. Children. Marriages. Almost as if the world is walking around blind, unaware that they are stepping on…. Landminds. I grieve the catastrophes. My eight year old neighbor, like a son, having to move because his parents are divorcing. A mom struggling as her nine […]
When Churches Fall Indestructible
I buckle over at the photos on my screen. God’s house…up in flames. Egypt. The tyranny of it all. I hear how Christians are hiding their cross necklaces, scribbling out the crucifix tattoos on their wrists, in hopes to hide from the Brotherhood pursuing them. Many remain locked indoors…fearing the percussion of an angry mob. A […]