At twenty-two, I too often missed his eyes. I was busy trying to make bottles at the exact right temperature. Trying to worry about whether he would keep quiet as I raced through the grocery store. At twenty-two, I didn’t know what was in my own eyes…how could I really stop to look into, someone else’s? […]
Sitting with the silence swirling in empty places, taunting me, whispering, “Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.” But then the still song rises around me. And peace fills those deep wells within me crying out for more. And as I sit cross legged on the couch begging for glimpses of God; the wrinkles ache, the puffs under my eyes […]
According to Universe time…my husband and I knew each other about three seconds before getting married and starting a family. We were in our early twenties, being children in every sense of the word. Survivalist searching for a fairy-tale love, some romantic fulfillment that promises, “Love does exist”. But while offering our lives to work, serving […]
Sitting one car away, waiting patently, for caffeine. Drive-through stops, like a river halted by the town-car in front of me.And I have been learning….Anything not moving, not growing, living, breathing….will eventually die. Breathe starts slowing. Counting. 1….2….3….4….5 minutes pass. The car before me keeps chatting with the Starbucks worker. Maybe there is a problem? Maybe something serious […]
Have you ever seen a marriage, family, neighbor, or church…divided? It’s a gruesome sight. Like a war with casualties lying around, limbless. Often the result of divisions is a bloody mess. Still in retrospect, how many people really think they are the ones creating division? Often we won’t notice this type of war until after everything around us […]
We walk the streets of Vancouver B.C. Porches and vintage automobiles buzzing by speedily. Dull eyes, busy feet beat the streets here in this late night, city life. Dresses, heals, and suits in the latest fashions, stop and look at their imagine in the mirrors of the store fronts. I sympathize. I used to be one […]