The first words out of my mouth when I saw her was…. “She is dead”. Lifeless head. Body wrapped in blankets a mile high. Her skin transparent….. Weighing somewhere around five pounds. This delicate shell lay there…. On plywood. Screaming one. Beside her. Face born open between nose and mouth. Cleft lip. The cry of a […]
6:00 a.m. Blanket of black covers windows surrounding. And darkness is the mask….of sleep….and dreams….and all things unknown by the world deep in rest. Yet, in China….they would have been awake for hours. 4:00 a.m. The rising and fleeing to mountain caves and trees and places hidden. So, they can worship in the dark. Before eyes […]
Unconventional. Somehow. Someway. For some reason….. God uses the unconventional. The out of the box kind of life….and living…..and faith. How the blind man was asked to put mud on his eyes…… To get healed. Jesus put his fingers inside another one’s ears & spit on the tongue for a deaf man to speak…. clearly. Women’s […]
May wings of faith carry you across skies wide open…..into sunsets waiting…. Toward life. And Love. And lit up skies…. May your day run into the open arms of God….Wide Open. Drawing you….further…. Out of fear. Out of doubt. Out of duty. Into love. And may Faith rise…. From clouds of unknowing…. May the Heaven’s Open. […]
I come to you today, Lord. On bended knee. Knowing…I have nothing to give….. No words that can describe your glory. How can one mouth profess all your praise? How can half and hour describe your magnificence? Yet, today…..we speak. At Womens. About China. And I struggle because I know….I am empty of any of my […]
Dinner time. In orphanage. In China. Struggling through white rice….made with more love than any bowl could hold. First night in orphanage. Three plane rides far away from home. And we walk into kitchen. “Xie xie”….to say, “Thank you” in Chinese. We then ask….to paint nails….for many. And fingers and toes….a representation of love. And Jesus […]