I hide around the corner, by the back door. Safely surrounded by walls, where the laundry lays high, unfolded, thoughtlessly tossed… And it is here in this shelter I can breathe, pray, wait, pour my heart out to God best. I find a once tie-dyed splattered towel and think, “Why haven’t I thrown this away yet?” […]
Welcome! One, two, three, let’s UNITE!
This is it. The first words on a whole new blog. If you haven’t noticed yet, Rich Faith Rising has just moved from blogspot to a dot com. And you are one of the first to stop by as I tweak and twist this site, hopefully eventually it will morph and begin looking like the site […]
When You’re Weary and Meet a Stranger with 11 Cents.
It was only eleven cents. Why did I wrestle? “Don’t you have eleven cents?” She questioned. And of course, I was quick to answer. I always have change, so much change it weighs my hand-sized purse in the same way the coins of others toil pull us southward. I hold out a handful of change to […]
When It’s Time to “Just Be YOU”. And UNITE Linky
I don’t know how to say this. So, I am just going to blurt it out. Writing is my therapy. The mirror I use that helps me see a soul that seems to get buried in this messy thing called life. And I don’t write for money, or awards, or even publicity. In fact, when I […]
The Risk of Un-Apologentic Worship
“Music is the chorus of the unsung heart, the healing for the wounded soul, the wings in a world lacking any melody of its own.” The winds rise high, air thick, stress levels taunt before hearing the chord strum, from my son playing upstairs. His sister rises soft, a little uncertain, in her resurrected youth. Her […]
Fighting Against the Noise, Social Climbing, & a Hoarding Heart.
Sometimes the world is just loud. Trampling on you like a thousand stead ridding furiously across the sunset. Yet, sometimes the lights don’t fade. The pollution of a world filled with greed ever trickles from societies ways… And we lose our way. But we are not still enough to know it. I get the tweets, feel […]