Subtract and multiply. My heart wakes with this notion Easter morning, after He whispers to my spirit, “Whatever dies, lives.” And my conscious, slowly rising, heeds, wrestles with the thought of what we have been taught in some religions. “Live…THEN die.” And in some places of worship we can learn this type of, “Add-on religion.” We […]
Broken. I could feel the wind deflating in me, like a falling helium balloon, slowly drifting to the ground. Sleepless nights, teething, throwing a surprise party, a conference weekend. The days spun on. And the body is only so strong under the weight of our own carnality. Crackling, crumbling, I smiled on the outside, but inside […]
Dynamite blasts a 50,000 person church in Chi*a this past January. Sides crumble, earth rumbles, ceilings splinter apart like some cardboard commodity. A bright, red cross high and lifted up, bends low, slides horizontal, parralel with that dusty heap of rubble left to taint bystander’s nostrils. Yet, the Golden Lampstand Church of Shanxi Province, wasn’t the […]
Slow down, child. Why all the racing? Running frantically? Living like a web getting more entangled the faster you go? Don’t you know, beauty is in the slow? A mother flutters to her nest, she slowly built. Bees buzz, pollinating for the good of nature. Spring’s fragrance moves from the gentle, slow breeze, flowing across the […]
Honestly, I must be the world’s worst camper, even after traveling around the states in a blue van in the 70’s, with my brother and parents. As a child, I preferred gathering frogs, searching for arrowhead’s like some ancient Indian ruling the land, or hiking up mountains imagining our ship had been wrecked, left to survive […]
The child with a swollen head. Just one light. The fuzzy-backed baby screamer. Just one light. The little girl who bit me, scratched her thigh with fingernails, tried to jump out of my moving vehicle. Just one light. The beautiful boy whose gone. Just one light. This world of fostering is like running into a forrest, […]