“It’s for you.” I reach out with uncertain hands, hesitant to ever take anything for free. Looking down, I see it; the decorated poles, empty pews, the white cross up high inside the painted church pictured across this business-sized card…like the one I had just seen a few hours earlier. “Thank you.” I flip the card […]
Want to go Deeper with God?
1983. That was the date I placed paper glasses, one blue, one red, over my innocent eyes. That’s when I slunk down and peered terrified onto the big screen, watching a life-like shark rise up….nuna nuna…unpredictable. Eat people who all seemed quite oblivious. I had lived with fear, chasing, night terrors. I had heard screams, ran […]
When You Question God
She sits unassuming. Drawn to her…not knowing why. Next to her resides, the man with transparent eyes. And I need to know them, need to hear their story. Seemingly just an ordinary, average, every-day after dinner get-together, with some of our closest friends. But soon I’d find, this meeting was nothing but ordinary. This couple, tugging […]
What a Marysville Shooting Shouts to Each of Us
Another shooting. This time, not far off; somewhere I can’t map, or a place I’ve never been to… But here. Right here in my city. Oso mudslide in the next town last year, and now some teen grabs a gun and decides to shoot hate inside a lunch room…instead of love? And when video games immune […]
Have You Had Enough?
It’s hot. Skin meltingly hot. Twists and turns, around the bends in the road, across the long, hot, dry land. Alone. No one to talk to. Not one friend beside her. Earlier that day, the other women clamor, chat, failing to invite her. Another morning lost, alone, needy, destitute. Waking dirty. With a man worse than […]
Crucifying My Religious Spirit
Four tall-back, arm chairs sitting high on a platform. I knew I was in trouble, right then and there. I started to squeal and squirm, remembering a sermon I once heard, “Always be weary of leaders who sits high above you on fancy, white, arm chairs.” Thoughts of “religious spirits” danced through my brain. Painted hair, […]