A Letter to my Daughter

Dear Daughter – What do I tell you..about life, love, happiness?  About letting go of the looking glass. About pain, the truth of pain.  Heartache.  That love doesn’t always look like it should. That in you resides a reservoir of strength. That your beauty is not in style, makeup, or dress.  Beauty rests deep in you. […]

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We Are All Hypocrites!

A Hypocrite.  One who’s actions don’t line up with their words.  A faker. Poser.  One desiring public approval.  Religious. Self-Righteous. One who walks in High and Mightiness. Try and hiding. Disguising, with words, hidden truth inside. Who among us are perfect? Those without sin, let them cast the first stone. We are not alone. We all […]

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The Life of the Story

I open this day, like a book. The moments, a page, an asking, a taking….of time. It’s mine, to do with it what I should, what I could, what I can. But the pictures allure me. The stillness in the moment, the color, the awe, the wonder….they captivate me.  Where I want to stop, dwell, embrace, […]

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Why Adopt?

Why Adopt?  People ask.  Isn’t your family perfect, just the way it is?  Why adopt? Because we are more than just ourselves….we are His. His story, is our story, which in turn becomes another story. While we were yet sinner’s Christ died for us. Not by works, or once perfect, but while we were tarnished.  Like […]

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Power of His Name

 I awake today.  Coffee perking. Eyes blurring. Sun chasing away the clouds. Morning sounds. A child laughs. I rise in joy.  I see Him in, the waking cry of creation.  Around me waking. Robins singing. Building nests. Grass swaying.  Leaves aching.  With color.  Wonder.  Exploration.  For another day. A chance to embrace.  Life. Wonder.  Around every […]

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Love

Love….Divine. Undefined…by man. Ungraspable, unfathomable, uncontainable. Changing. Empowering. Transforming. Floods of waters raining down. Where sin abounds…it drowns….In the power of His Love. Wide. Deep. Great is His love. A world created, just for you. Love unleashed, rooted in truth. A Father embracing, the wandering one chasing. Engaging. Exchanging His life on the cross…for you. Love […]

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