Light flashes from the dark evening sky. My husband and I see it from the glass, two-story deck, off our bedroom, blanketed with down comforters and a fireplace that promises warm. It’s as if the summers end is announced by loud banging, clanging symbols from heaven, reminding us… A new season is about to begin. The […]
I wasn’t that much different from this mama. She haphazardly crossed my path in a furious hurry, like a teenager with road rage and wings. Her tweeting caught my attention each time I made my way up the cement path from my automobile to my front door. I didn’t know she had a home. I thought […]
My mind and heart spun back to a time when God grew rapidly from far off to close and personal, intimate and relational in my life. A blue and brown journal with cofffee cups on the front stared back at me. I open it, thinking it might be empty, so my daughter could tackle Pre-Algebra in […]
Baskets of journals hide in my closet; all scratched straight from old pens, in an attempts at intimacy with God. Today I was looking for a spiral notebook. My daughter is starting math again. (We homeschool). Amidst my hunt, I came across a journal from a three-plus year season. It was a time when God radically […]
It all started with a cross. The thoughtless thread woven into my husband’s leg in a busy emergency room. “The doctor took his soapy finger and dug it through the bloody wound.” My Other-Half describes his gushing injury. This was the second time He had an gouge on the same leg at work. This cut horizontal, which rose […]
Out of nowhwere, the lady with a metal cart of food, slams into the fatless leg of my husbands solid-muscled calf. Blood shoots like a volcano as a large vein becomes exposed to air. It isn’t the first time this leg has been injured. Years ago, I was awakened, jolted awake, in the early morning to […]