Night sky streaked with soft pinks and powder blues, whisping with stretched-out clouds, lacing the beautiful evening in a way that says, “I am here”. Baby bunnies fill my morning lawn. A chipmunk leaps to the one bird feeder I placed in our weeping tree. He flies from the branches, dances along the edges, then spins […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]