“What’s that?”  My husband turns his head out the window of the rolling car, to find a blue cloth-looking article lying in our driveway. “I don’t know, we can look at it later.” I suggest. But his Spirit-prompting wouldn’t settle for ignoring the bluish substance laying where our property is. He turns around. Lifts high something […]

I see her face.  Round.  Long hair, lain upon her shoulders. I saw her long ago, but didn’t know her name. Still, the picture stays tattooed some place deep where I can’t see. God-prints aren’t ever rubbed raw, get old, don’t die down with time and oppression, and with a life lived warn, like jeans frayed […]

He’s fourteen.Some say fourteen-year-old’s are caught up in themselves. Well, Luke isn’t. He’s different. I met him at an orphan conference. “He said he wants to do something meaningful,” his mom tells me as I sit next to her, us hearing how most foster kids come into care with a t-shirt, maybe some underwear….little more. And […]

I’ve always seen it in my head; strolling down the lighted path, talking, laughing, playing games with family at a time when people gasp for breathe, traffic stops stagnant, and people wish frantically for “just a little more time” to finish what needs to be done, for Christmas. Each year, my intentions were clear, opinions sometimes […]

“Be careful of the riptides, man.  They are pretty dangerous right now.”  A toothless, homeless-looking Hawaiian, looks up as we walk past, dangling snorkels in our hands. Us new to the islands.  Him, a local.. And sometimes those that have been around awhile, those that have rode the waters, tasted the tides, those that have experienced […]