Churches filled. People plowing into a building, in hopes to find their salvation. Dresses. Heals. Ties picked to match shirts, covering heart’s, needing true deliverance. And I have never been one for traditionalism. Rituals. Routines. Duty bound religion. Ever since childhood. When in the darkness, of a world seeking to drown me. I encountered, Jesus. And […]
Long winters pass. Sun breaks out, laughing at the darkness. All creation, resurrecting. Seeking, the unwrapping of an awakening, Lazarus. Breathing from shrouds. Binding all of life, from the fullness of freedom. Promises of spring. Coming. Here. Awaiting, the new birth. Earth. Awakens. Still much, hibernating. Locked in a cave, stubbornly clinging, to hopes and dreams. […]
Our husbands had prayed for us. Humbly on our knees. In the house before we left. “Open doors” they said. May God lead you to, “open doors.” Pastor, with God ears. Listening. Hearing too. Though He wasn’t in that house that day. And it wasn’t until we stood. On an island. There in China. That we […]
Usually it’s the kids. Spilling, dripping, staining brand new clothes. And sad to say. When this happens. I too often, just end up throwing soiled items away. But, this day. Kids scramble at my feet. So being an ex-teacher, I get out the flour, salt, alum, and food dye. Joyfully making…. Play dough. I add the ingredients. […]
I see them. Across the isle. At church. Three now. Their little one. The mom in a flowered shirt. And I count their faithfulness, as “one”. There. The best friend of our past twelve-year-old foster daughter, I run into. We talk. I learn. About my heart-daughter whose now with another family. Lawyers. Older. Adopting. That’s “two”. […]
When I started this journey into the bloghop world, I didn’t know what to expect. I have never been one into hosting much. Yet, God has been pealing me from myself. And when I started UNITE. it was because my heart ached. Seeing people….even Christians, at times….so divided. I saw the secular world UNITING, in […]