I have been running to mountain tops lately. Trying to spot Jesus. Trying to get all that He has got. Striving my way. To redemption. Yet, as I rest. And talk to Him. Communing with The One who has all the answers. He speaks to me…. “My glory is found in weak people. Contrite places. Not […]
One minute. Crowds cheering. Daughter rides peering. Sitting on a convertible. Waving to the crowds. Homecoming. Princess. A little more than twelve hours later. 8: 50 a.m. in the morning. Driving to Jazz Choir. To sing the National Anthem. Turns out onto a busy street. Gets swiped by a large truck. Spins wildly. Out of control. […]
I don’t know what came over her. Like a seed, lying dormant. Coming alive. In that in-between. Child exiting to women-hood. This morning. Not speaking. Her silence. Deafening. Like the white page I look at. Before typing. Pure. Barren. Sacred. Holy. Careful, so as not to stain a page….Waiting for answers. And why is…. Wonder always […]
I have a confession to make. I know it’s true….simply because of the discomfort I feel. As I spit out this unflattering, unChristlike, prideful rising truth…. “I am a perfectionist.” I often have this unsettled insistence that things be just perfect. In fact, when I was little….I used to go up and down the isles. Aligning boxes […]
The room sweats with suffering. And faces are mute with agitation. Agitation of the worst kind. The kind like when watching a scary movie. And you can’t run. Can’t scream. Courtroom insisting. No one leaving. Glued to the bench. Staring. Though we all want to turn away. Evidence roars like thunder, as a lightening of evidence strikes […]
Have you ever had one of those days? Like today. Call from my child’s school. Saying…..there has been a mistake. Hepatitis B. Not in records. Deleted from the computers at the clinic. Shots. Three kids. Countless foster infants. All up to date. But, they insist. So…we make a road trip. Twenty miles away. To our pediatrician. […]