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 […]
I buckle over at the photos on my screen. Â God’s house…up in flames. Egypt. The tyranny of it all. I hear how Christians are hiding their cross necklaces, scribbling out the crucifix tattoos on their wrists, in hopes to hide from the Brotherhood pursuing them. Many remain locked indoors…fearing the percussion of an angry mob. Â A […]
I gasp. On twitter. I see it there…. A child extracted from it’s dead pregnant mother, pierced. Crucified, in it’s own way. Seeing Jesus, months before she has even breathed. And life sinks from me. I cannot inhale again. I am empty, breathless. Just like that mom, that infants. Unable to feel the sting of those […]
I sit row six from the front. Church rumbles as the pastor announces. Instead of asking for money…he is giving away $10,000 to the congregation. This pastor is young, but wise beyond his years. He has served overseas and has a heart for those outside the four walls of the church. That’s why we are there. […]