She swooped the roller across her lime green walls. Â And once where there was bright colors. Â 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 […]
Good morning everyone! Today I am trying something I haven’t done lately. It is for (in)Courage. It is a challenge given by Lisa Jo Baker. The challenge is to turn on the alarm in my kitchen and write for 5 minutes flat. Absolutely NO re-do’s, editing, or re-writes because I don’t like what I jotted down. I have […]
With writing overdue, swimming, infant respite this summer…I just couldn’t make one more decision. “Where do you want to go? School shoes shopping or the the bookstore?” Husband had been working late, it was well after dinner and I just didn’t want to go home. I thought for sure my seven year old would pick shoes. […]
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 […]
We care for orphans. It’s just what we do. From the time I was a little girl, I had a passion to help the lost, rescue the hurting, advocate for those treated unjustly. It’s hard work and not always fun. No one likes the trenches in a war. They are deep, dirty; they are darker, and […]
I look around, outside my life, and see a war zone. Families. Children. Marriages. Almost as if the world is walking around blind, unaware that they are stepping on…. Landminds. I grieve the catastrophes. My eight year old neighbor, like a son, having to move because his parents are divorcing. A mom struggling as her nine […]