She’s been telling me for weeks, about some little girl who is homeless. I didn’t listen. I was planning a wedding, single-handedly, caught up in my own send-off and all it means when you give a life away. She was five after all. And I just assumed someone at school was making this story up. Older […]
I see them dig today. Ebony skin glistening in the beaming sun. Shovels, unearthing everything deep and red. A little boy walks nearby, the look in their eyes is determined, fierce, purposed, unified…. And we all dig, sometimes. Some dig to build, others to plant. And then there are those that dig graves with words left […]
“I….I…” Trying to wrack my mind for words to explain our past season to my husband… “I feel like we’ve been through a blender.” Yes. That was it. Mentally, physically, emotionally, in relationships. Like a wirlwind had wrapped itself around our home and was spinning us towards sharp blades, destined to destroy us. Worse yet, we’ve […]
It’s like he’s been here a thousand years. The fresh air almost visible as it calms and soothes, making wrestling spirits find home. They race and dig, collect eggs and play, as if time stopped, yesterday has run right up and swallowed this day of nuisances and noise. Technology is replaced with trees beckoning. Pregnant fluffy […]
For three days, God was speaking, “You care too much about what people think.” When I told my twenty-two year old, she responded, “What? I don’t think you do.” But truth deep inside, rarely lies. And this theme had been striking me recently, through text messages, words I’d been reading. And then, there was that time, […]
Billboards, Youtube, Snapchat, Instagram. The world is a speedy mechanism of quick snapshots, promising us what “real” love looks like… And we must long for it… Because these images hook us. We must desire something deeply… Because we have created an entire generation so glued to their phones, they get lost in not seeing the people […]