I almost hit him with my car. He was standing in the road, on the right, doing….who knows what? Like a let-loose bus, I turned the corner racing speedily. Â Spotting him briefly, then slammed on my breaks. Â As if given grace, stopping just before his six foot wing span and white, bald head glides directly across […]
Shattering A Culture That Cares More About Coffee than People
“Soy, green tea latte, no classic syrup, one raw sugar, 170 degrees, and no foam”, I order a friend’s drink from my favorite barista, down at our local coffee stand. “Oh, we don’t have what we need to make that”, she shrinks back, pointing me to Starbucks. Ugh. I really need that exact order, I reluctantly […]
When I Was A Fourteen Year-old Runaway – Announcement
I was fourteen.  Swayed by the schoolgirl whose mom was non-existent; yet paid the mortgage so her daughter wouldn’t be homeless. I longed for acceptance. My charismatic friend seemed to give it, while simultaneously criticizing my church-going parents; telling me I should be free, just like her. I was ignorant, so I followed. I ran away […]
Shattering the Lies of Insecurity
I sobbed all the way to the first small group I ever went to. Â Scared, young, fearing I was too un-spiritual. Â Worried of being asked to read the Bible. Â Petrified of what I might look like to others. Would I come across weird, or lost, or stupid? But most of all I was horrified of small […]
Shattering Your Mirrors of Adversity
The walls felt like they were closing. It was as if I had come from a mountain-top experience….to swoop low, hollow, walking unexpectedly out of the rivers of freedom. And it was dark, really dark. The people I thought might have been there were gone. And sometimes you don’t really know what you have until the […]
Shattering Religious Duty
It’s Easter. I find myself driving out into the open. All alone. Four inch patent leathers pushing the gas petal, leading me far from home… Where I can grow small in light of His wide open spaces…. I had told them, “I don’t think I can do Easter this Sunday; eggs, large performances, wildly lavished stages….instead […]