I pull her from her crib. Eyes fix on the sparkling lights that shine across a dark room. And who doesn’t like light when it pierces bright, fluid, right into our very own souls, in a room black, void of seemingly any light at all? I know her story. And while spirits run restless, shift, dart, […]
“It’s sad and scary.” She sits straight up at the pub-style chair before heading off to school. Her eyes just seeing fire-laden pictures of Ferguson burning the night before. She is eight. And contrary to everything in me, wanting to keep silent, wanting to shield her innocence from a world gone crazy, wanting to hide in […]
Who would have guessed? White, powder-like grace covers the ground. Eight-year-old shouts from her window, scrambles downstairs. Warm clothes on. Wanting to rush out and make snow angels. Our smallest one and I, much slower. Me, remembering the cold, her not knowing why the green trees, pasture, and everything she has known since she has gotten […]
In a world so full of fires, wars, shooting, looting, hardships, chores…it can be hard to sit back and be thankful. We set aside a day, maybe once in a while quiet our minds, and toss up a line to heaven; a too-small detached nonchalant phrase of gratitude because “good Christians” are “supposed” to do that. […]
First, I just wanted to say a HUGE, “Thank you”. I cannot tell you with mere words the overflowing love you all gave to my daughter and what it meant to her and to myself. As many of you know, it can be hard sometimes to put our hearts out there, vulnerable to so many people…online. […]
I wanted to leap through the map filled with missionary faces, jump into their story, sit down and absorb their experiences of truth and faith. But, he called me outside. Just as faces were rising up the stairs to a conference I hadn’t heard about. One lady, arms filled, turned around, walking back towards us and […]