I jumped through the window of my two bedroom duplex, just blocks from the street known for drugs and prostitutes. I lost my key, and was afraid of the landlord. I didn’t know him and feared him being harsh or judgmental. Still, it was there I spent hours sitting on the kitchen counters talking to my […]
Rescuing Life And When The Ocean Lives Inside You
It’s early morning. Our toes sink deep into the cool water engulfing the shore-line. Every step, living foot prints…Like the ones we leave…but often don’t realize it. Every step, an imprinting, for others to see. Our search wasn’t careless. We knew there were treasures….And it was our goal (the goal of all God-breathed beings)…to find them. […]
Free Grace. Not for Sale. UNITE Linky
The following narration is a paraphrase of what John Piper said in His book, “Future Grace”. Imagine you had a parent who bought you a house. It was the perfect house; allowing you to rest, find joy, peace, and have happiness…. It was everything you dreamed of and more, the place you anticipated and had been […]
Thanks for your love and support. Will Be Back Shortly.
Awe…my faithful readers. Have I told you how much I appreciate you? You have journeyed with me through many cases, the twelve-year-old foster daughter we had for a year, the baby that came to us and we had until he was two. We are now in the middle of another case of a little girl, the […]
When Blind Eyes See. And UNITE Linky
It took a tall, slender homeless man stumbling across the crosswalk in front of my stopped car to wake me up to the reality. There it stirred, beat, my eyes awakened as if coming out of a deep, dark sleep I hadn’t realized I had been in. I drive by another, pushing a cluttered grocery cart, […]
Facing Your Fears And Walking By Faith
“Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that you will govern all.” Elizabeth Elliot wrote these words despite the fact that her husband, Jim Elliot, was slain by the exact tribe he had been ministering to, in Equador. I am sure Elizabeth didn’t expect to be a widow, […]