I curl closer. Locking my arms around his middle. Tucking my chin down around the bend in his neck. Finding warmth from this freezing. Neighbors laughing. Stories of bears. Shivers camping around my extremities… Keeping me awake. Marshmallows still lay on the picnic table from the evening before. The coals now separated. Alone. Cold. Much like […]
How to Flow Freely in Christ in a World Made of Stone.
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 […]
The Secret Power of Young People
There it lay. Wings waving, twisting in the heat scorched blaze of a summer sky. Many walk by. My eyes fix to it’s noiseless cry. I can’t move. I stand protecting it, from passer byers crushing it with their busy feet. Heart aching for the plight of a lost one, fallen so far from its nest. […]
Have You Run Into A Brick Wall?
Welcome to UNITE!UNITE is a no-rules, all inclusive blog hop! Today, I got brave and posted a short vlog (or video blog for those who don’t know what a vlog is). I share how in life, you can be running fine, until it feels like you run smack dab into a brick wall! Ever been there? […]
God Sees. Coram Deo. And UNITE Link-Up.
I don’t speak Latin. Probably never will. Still, when I heard, “Coram Deo” in a service not too long ago….the words shot right through me. I just knew, “Coram deo” was something big. Real big. I just knew somehow, something valuable lies in the Latin origin of these words I didn’t get. And when words have […]
When Fear Keeps You Stagnant.
Ever been over your head? In too deep? Struggling with the reality that you can’t do it all? Can’t go where God is leading? Like swimming up a waterfall, toward the current, constantly carrying us towards apathy, complacency. After all, isn’t it comforting to be able to wrap our arms around our lives? To carry God […]