He finds me here, at 3:00 a.m. with this question of love, this aching that says, “What is a soul worth?” And the violent tornadoes that have stirred themselves recently, were ferocious and vicious and I question what love is worth… How much does it cost to sacrifice, and give our lives away. And from the […]
I told him, “Snow is like grace”. Those first few days when he lay in my arms, screaming like a baby, longing for something to fill that gaping hole begging desperately for more. “Do you know what grace is?” I asked. “It’s where you are loved whether you are good or bad. It’s God’s free gift […]
Teach me to pray, Oh God. In the quiet of the night, when the world stops moving, teach me to pray. Teach me to pray, when my heart-songs are nestled, the noise of the day can’t be heard anymore. Teach me to pray. Teach me to pray, when my head is silenced, the clanging and rustling […]
Curled over in the darkened night, wolves howling in the distance, a small ember barely seen amidst the blanketed sky, trees thrashing in the wind, rain threatening to put out the fire desperate to be kindled. Alone, is a show on the History Channel. It takes individuals, sets them out on islands in the Pacific Northwest, […]
We almost called the fire department. We didn’t know what else to do. She had been up the there for days. We could barely see her, but her faint cry rang out among the neighboring trees, the branches leaning like a canopy, covering her from the owl, eagles, and hawks that would likely hunt her. She […]
Like a bullet, it flew between my zombie eyes and my computer screen. Mind overloaded, an article overdue and the list of things required to accomplish, a mile high. Waking as if in daze, I find a well-folded paper airplane landing before my face, almost tauntingly still, glaring up at me, from my keyboard. I turn […]