A war started yesterday. We were driving away from one church and headed to another, and Amir Tsarfati, who we had heard speak a few years ago, shared the heartbreaking news. Russia had been surrounding Ukraine like a swarm of locus’; posturing, posing, and purposefully intending to strike Ukraine, though Ukraine had done nothing wrong. Then, […]
Friends, I have been blogging for over 10 years….TEN! That is a lot of words, and questioning, digging, and Scripture sharing! Over the years, my writing has grown from short, few-line, poetic prose, to long, often 1,000 word posts, sharing what God has deposits in my bones, hours and sometimes days earlier. (I have been trying […]
As a parent, I have one particular child who is unusually obedient. She says “yes” with a willing heart, whether I ask her to clean up her room or empty the dishwasher. I have another child who struggles. She had a hard past and sometimes wrestled with whether she can trust what someone is asking of […]
The New Year started with a bang; not in a good way, but with one calamity after another. After two years of a virus that hypnotized people, leaving many fumbling in the darkness, spinning seemingly indefinitely… We had all hoped, the New Year would be brighter. Like bullets blasting towards the fleeing; people are trembling in […]
Store shelves lay empty. Barren, skewed and aimless, like Old Mother Hubbard’s Cupboards. Or like the day after Black Friday. How was I supposed to buy shoes for my five-year-old daughter when I couldn’t find any anywhere? Worse yet, my fifteen-year-old had suggested she needs a heavier winter coat. She has many, but most were for […]
The longest day of the year. That’s what they call today. Winter. Dark. Even darker than the usual darkness of this Northwest tip of the nation I live in; the one where artists and creatives are born, and legends are formed by the emotion of winter. The valley, where trees block the sun, dark clouds hide […]