In padded seats, I remember it well. A teacher standing over me, sharing with the classroom…. “Never just open the Bible and read. It’s dangerous.” He used Matthew 27:5 to justify his fear. “I mean, what if you open the Bible and read, ‘Then he went away and hanged himself’… And someone went out and actually […]
Caught up in the day, I sit down and play, “Bible Roulette”. Something I have done since Bible camp prior to my teens. I can’t say it’s the “right” method for Bible reading. Yet, for me. Somehow…. God always speaks, when I trust. Wait. Pray. And let the Spirit lead. This day I open and find. […]
At twenty-two, I struggled as a new parent. So selfish; my life looked like the Bermuda Triangle; tugging, pulling, and twisting me downward, in a million different directions. Something unseen seemed to hinder me from living in the freedom I should have had, as a new wife and mother. At first, life with a family felt […]
It was just a speck of light. Like oxygen flowing through tired, weary lungs….slowly, barely, hopefully, helplessly. And yet, the light and oxygen never leave the people of God. Sometimes bursting forth, other times glimmering with smaller quantities of air… But always there. Never hopeless. Never destitute. Always Him. Always something, and someone to hold onto. […]
To the child without a mother. I see you. I have held hundreds of you in my arms; black, white, yellow, brown. I have looked into your eyes, and seen the empty void, that only a mother can fill… Yet, she didn’t. I have heard your cries, deep into the night; on this land, but also […]
On wings I ride to the Holy of Holies. We soar, and glide, and rise to the place the glory dwells. Light burst forth and I cannot contain the joy. Weightless. Fully blessed. Up in the air where they see a sight, hear a sound rumbling in heaven. I see His face; gentle, wise, strong. The […]