Relevant Magazine yesterday posted, male authors are read more often than women..even by women themselves. Another article talks about a group of abortion advocates pushing to “have the right” to a late term injection into the hearts of their pre-born, nine-month-old infants. Yet, our God given purpose was to reproduce. Still, sex-slave trade permeates the internet. How […]
What We All Need…Sometimes.
His name was Jerry. Brown hair, strong features, few wrinkles, except those ones earned…from the suffering, few realized. I first met him visiting my Grandma in a nursing home. Her agitated, unappreciative….though I came a long way just to be with her. Weekly. He asked me to open his door. That was our first greeting. Looking […]
Abuse: Isn’t it Time We Break the Silence?
“Even heathens love those who love them.” These words usher in my new year. I cringe at the reality that love conditional is no love at all. My whole childhood, I used to live in a cage. Like a bird, imprisoned, in steel chains…the ones others placed on me. Still when truth pierces, we have two […]
When Flowers Bloom in Winter. UNITE Linky
It sits on the window seal these darkest of days. Letting light in…but keeping ice frozen on the other side of the pane. And flowers can bloom deep in winter, if we let them. My little one has concerns. The thrashing storms of life testing her roots, leaving her drooping. Even I cannot deny that. An […]
When Perfectionism Needs a Funeral
I spit it out, like a broken gumball dispenser. One word. Then another. Then another. It’s the one person, I struggle being discrete with, the one…after all this time…I still want to impress. And why do we clothe ourselves with fancy words and self-righteousness, when we feel most insecure, when we ache to impress those in […]
Risk Being Made A Fool Of?
“Ugh!” It’s all I can say as I drive away. First I said “yes” to going on a missions trip to Dominican Republic, because my husband miraculously woke up with some kind of revelation, “We are supposed to go”…He announces… Not just one morning…but two. (You can find that post HERE) And I have learned by […]