They say she’s starting chemotherapy. She’s five. I have seen the hair fall out, little ones begging for life with their distraught mama’s on their arms at Children’s Hospital. I have seen the dim in their eyes. The life sucked, pulled, and just drained and barely hanging on. They need a voice. Advocates. People like my […]
We danced. Every couple, after the young ones said their vows. One by one couples left the dance floor & only those who’d been married the longest remained. 52 years! They had a legacy, done what can seem impossible in an age of fractured relationships & broken people. Then, they played the song I’d heard my […]
“Broken people, call His name.” It was a muggy Friday, summer evening. I could hear their collective voices, as my four wheels pull up slowly to the gravel parking lot. Double doors propped open. Because where He is, everyone should be welcomed. There was no “getting to know you” period. No recruitment, hand picking, or stringent, […]
She’s been telling me for weeks, about some little girl who is homeless. I didn’t listen. I was planning a wedding, single-handedly, caught up in my own send-off and all it means when you give a life away. She was five after all. And I just assumed someone at school was making this story up. Older […]
I see them dig today. Ebony skin glistening in the beaming sun. Shovels, unearthing everything deep and red. A little boy walks nearby, the look in their eyes is determined, fierce, purposed, unified…. And we all dig, sometimes. Some dig to build, others to plant. And then there are those that dig graves with words left […]
“I….I…” Trying to wrack my mind for words to explain our past season to my husband… “I feel like we’ve been through a blender.” Yes. That was it. Mentally, physically, emotionally, in relationships. Like a wirlwind had wrapped itself around our home and was spinning us towards sharp blades, destined to destroy us. Worse yet, we’ve […]