I see them in the desert, the wandering ones. Those caught up with nothing but sky to cover them. No earthly possessions…Just the feet of oppression carrying them to places unknown. And we all know, evil reigns and attempts to destroy us when children are be-headed, women savaged, and the cross itself becomes the instrument Christian […]
The Risk of Un-Apologentic Worship
“Music is the chorus of the unsung heart, the healing for the wounded soul, the wings in a world lacking any melody of its own.” The winds rise high, air thick, stress levels taunt before hearing the chord strum, from my son playing upstairs. His sister rises soft, a little uncertain, in her resurrected youth. Her […]
Stop Writing? And Why We Need Each Other
I was going to stop blogging. No, really. I even posted it on last weeks UNITE, “Why God Hasn’t Given Up On You”…that I was going to stop writing in order to “think and pray” about what God was doing on my blog. But truth is, I was tired…really, really tired. For days before last […]
Fighting Against the Noise, Social Climbing, & a Hoarding Heart.
Sometimes the world is just loud. Trampling on you like a thousand stead ridding furiously across the sunset. Yet, sometimes the lights don’t fade. The pollution of a world filled with greed ever trickles from societies ways… And we lose our way. But we are not still enough to know it. I get the tweets, feel […]
Why God Hasn’t Given Up On You. UNITE Linky
“I haven’t given up on you.” Bible turns covering the porch of all my hopes. Prayer just finished. Heart begging for what only God and I know… Those secrets nobody sees. And sometimes there’s secrets. Secrets only you and God hide inside the core of your chest. Planted in infancy, born through trials, come to life […]
Despair or Hope? When the Doctor Has Bad News
Loud cracking sounds startle me from my sleep. With the wars in the middle east, I roll my head over as thoughts already consume me, “What was that?” I ask sleeping husband. “Thunder and lightening”, he whispers. And with Israel having no peace, and Russia domineering Ukraine, it can be hard not to think the wars […]