Loud cracking sounds startle me from my sleep. With the wars in the middle east, I roll my head over as thoughts already consume me, “What was that?” I ask sleeping husband. “Thunder and lightening”, he whispers. And with Israel having no peace, and Russia domineering Ukraine, it can be hard not to think the wars […]
She swooped the roller across her lime green walls. And once where there was bright colors. Black was all I saw. Covering like the sorrow wallowing from my heart. What happened to my little girl? Why did she want black walls? What had I done wrong in this life to make my sparkles loving, pink, tiara […]
It is nearing 6:00 p.m. here in Seattle. And the pressure to get my post up for UNITE is looming over me. I wrote my post days ago…about an angel and a bookstore. But, after today…something is stopping me. There is a need to follow this God-prompting. For even once listening to our own flesh, can…in […]
They say, “It was like a serpent.” The way that tornado, twisted and turned through Moore that day. They say, “One was standing. Another, gone missing.” And there is no rhyme, no reason to it all. I watch. Children clinging to, their parents. On this fixed screen before me. And yet, how many more are missing? Such […]
Newton. A word forever marked. Branded. Tattooed in our heads. With images of dead children. Children and death. Painful. Synonymous. The world seemingly. Unjust. Why some. Wake children. And hold them close this morning. While others will not. And as mere men, we reason. Try to unscramble the, “Why’s”. Justify. Unthought of behaviors with. Psychology. Bad […]
When we took her in. It was not for profit. It was the God voice. The voice that whispered…. “Will you follow me?” And sometimes faith is like swimming. Where toe dipping caution into “believing”. Just doesn’t cut it. Either you dive in. Or you are left cold on the shores of “unbelieving”. Sinking deep in […]