There is nothing like laying flat on your back for two days straight to put your mind in perspective. For sometimes standing straight up and plowing full force forward can delude ourselves to what we think we need to do…. And as my brother who has a large ministry for troubled teens continually says, “Humility isn’t […]
Who would think last weeks encouragement challenge would “strike a cord” with so many? As a result, we are continuing to UNITE our worlds, lives, families through encouragement again this week! Remember, NO RULES TO THIS LINK UP! Simply…. 1) Link up. 2) Encourage at least three people in your world. (Stranger, neighbor, friend, family member.) And […]
Twenty years. Twelve kids later. And I never heard the words, “Will you marry me.” I never said, “I do.” Yes, I stood at the alter. Sick with white dress. There with a holy man dictating commands, “over us.” But that was the law. Law than binds man and wife. I understood that. And we have […]
I hear it. Laughter. Dancing across rooms. Opening up souls…as laughter always does. Why is it laughter – Not a crow bar – can pry the steel gates of souls. Yet, interrogating, drilling, & all efforts of man won’t? The great release. Empties bowls of long forgotten messes. The unifier. Unspoken communicator. All languages. People. Cultures. […]
Lately, I have been noticing….like the microscopic fruit flies that come to darken freshly picked fruit. People everywhere seem increasingly discouraged. Lies have come like tiny flies, to eat away at the ripeness of God’s goodness. And sadly. No one seems to be noticing. Until it’s too late. Fruit can sit alone. Rotten. Forgotten. Until someone […]
180 photos. That’s it. Sprawled along a table. In hope to make order of it all. And she sits. Hand’s trembling. Looking at her year. In two dimensional images. Trying to dwindle down. A life. Her 3-D world. Into time capsules. Frozen. Snapshots. Hiking. Swimming. Giggles. Picnics. Trials. Sentencing. A world filled with joy, pain, hope, […]