I see you, sitting there, holding tight, looking for specks of light, to shine inside the dark. I see your ache, the pain you’ve gained, the questions lingering, weighing you down. I see your song, growing dim. The tune that once rose, now lost in melodies of someone else’s message. I see what you’ve lost, in […]
The Chessboard of Life
A shallow cry in the middle of the night. Face pressed to carpet. In the sealed-off fortress of a bedroom, where nobody sees. The world demands, commands answers. And finding the concrete, stabbing the truth in a bunch of lies is like harpooning a fly in the middle of mosquito season. Far too many feelings buzzing […]
Need Something to Hold Onto?
My Catholic-raised husband used to tell me, “There is a fine line between loving and respecting someone.” When we love somone else, we respect them. When we respect another person, it’s an act of love. Little did I know that message would be prophetic in nature, predicative of culture, a lesson that would be reaped, years […]
What If It’s O.k. That We’re All Uncertain, Uncomfortable and Confused?
Like the tornado that struck Kansas, when Dorothy was taken to Oz, the world seems to be spinning so fast, we can’t catch up with the ever-changing headlines. Mandates, regulations, statistics, people’s positions. It’s like a love/hate relationship. We are drawn fully to the mayhem, but at the same time repelled from it. Everything that can […]
Can Anyone Really Be Color Blind?
We’re obsessed with outward appearances; putting people in neat, little subcategories, based on race, gender and disabilities. Even age, socio-economic status’ and regions people live in, can be justifications for us to box up and divide, segregate and separate. But God came to bring life and life abundantly, not just for some, but for all people. […]
Locked Down for What?
One local gym is closing after the state threatens civil lawsuit because they opened. Another gym, in our area has been facing civil sanctions from the state. P.A. Fitness owner, Mike Jellison says, “Our consitutional rights are being violated so badly.” (Read more here) He goes on, “I do get I’m defying the governor’s order, but […]