I simply snuck out to go to the restroom, mid-service, when others were hand-shaking and introducing… I needed a reprieve from the full day we had planned. Little did I realize that often that’s when heaven wants to encounter us… When your silent, distance, far from anticipating it. When you’ve given nothing to get it. And […]
Empty places don’t always need filling. I coast around the cliff, down our hill, across the tracks to the open field, socked with morning dew… White clouds hover over the earth, blinding creation, making it impossible to see, just a few feet in front of me… This morning of empty places, wet spaces, open earth, almost […]
I came for the coffee bean. You know, the one they put on the top of your coffee drink when you leave the corner stand. This place was my favorite, but eventually I am not going to lie…I became irritated by one of their young, blonde, baristas. Maybe it was because she rolled her eyes and […]
Shootings. Civil wars. Threats of terrorism. Honestly, I had wanted to stay silent this election season. I mean, we don’t need another article, more words, more fire to light an election, already inflamed. Do we? But first, please know, I came from a household where for forty-five years, both my parents voted silently. Though I asked, they […]
It stares at me. It’s been months. And I still can’t speak. The open room. The silent space. The little emblems laying around that ask my mind to bend to His understanding… Not mine. And they say… We “signed up for this”, suffering. Giving, holds risks. Bending to love, only cracks you in places that won’t […]
She was four the first time her brown fingers wrapped around the sign stating, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. ~ God” A dark-skinned couple drove slowly out of the abortion clinic. Nice looking couple. Beautiful car. Brown paper bag in hand holding the pill that would finalize the termination of their […]