“We have just witnessed a miracle.” House silent. The one who placed this endless circle on my finger twenty-two years ago, stares up with me at the draping canopy from our king sized bed. “I know.” He whispers back. The kids just placed in bed. And while some miracles must be hunted down, dug up, searched […]
I heard it crash. One of those mother-moments when you know you could either “get loud”, or “get lower”. I chose “lower still”, tip toeing into the entry hall, finding one of my photos of my nieces and both my daughters shattered on the floor. I pick up the frame, not saying a word. Hearing my […]
“Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.” ~ Charles StanleyBefore I started reading my Bible, you know, before I […]
Have you ever been somewhere and flashed back in time? Seeing little glimpses of film-like pictures in your mind of what used to be? I curl in a hammock on our property, new foster baby in arms cuddling close. My seven-year old hammock-surfing, a new game we invented for a little fun while passing time. The […]
Opening door to the front porch. I see it. Sitting there. Dry, brittle, shriveled up as a result of the circle in the sky, beating down on it. Those baskets I love. The ones I invested in at the beginning of summer. Now abandoned half way through. I run to fill up the little red […]
I see her face. The miracle I have been waiting to meet. Her chest breathes, up and down, up and down. And I rest in the fact that only God’s hand could have found her when He did. Something happened the last time I went to China. My me-eyes turned outward. They began to see God’s […]