We gather around table, bowing heads. No pews. No holy cross staring at us from some sanctuary. No spiritual music calling us deeper. Just ladies. All ages. Weak. Vulnerable. Trying to gain faith and strength in our weariness. And we recognize, sometimes “having faith” can be tough, in a day where children die, lives get ripped […]
“Crazy. I was just about to call you.” I can almost hear his smile on the other end of the line. “That’s just the way it is when you have been married a long time.” His words confirm our heart connection that only comes after knowing someone, deep, personally, intimately…for a very long time. But I […]
“We have just witnessed a miracle.” House silent. The one who placed this endless circle on my finger twenty-two years ago, stares up with me at the draping canopy from our king sized bed. “I know.” He whispers back. The kids just placed in bed. And while some miracles must be hunted down, dug up, searched […]
I ache to go to the poor. People ask why. Why when our house is still in remodel-mode, our bank account isn’t overflowing, and we have four kids who we are committed to doting on…. “Why the poor? Why the needy? Why do the most neglected draw your heart, enough for you to get on a […]
Dear Daughter, You float in high heels, person to person. You don’t see me watching….but I notice you; the one so poised, so soft and strong, so full of hope, so unafraid of tackling all of who you are….with no regrets… How bravely you find your own wings in a world bent on clipping, stiffling, chaining […]
I was hiding. Curling up in my own, “I have done enough”. The face of the little one in Dominican. Her mom gone. The village whipping her with sticks, labeling her with words that scar in places human eyes can’t see….“dog”, “fatso”, “worthless”. Thoughts swirling around in me…in corners unchained… Camping on the reality of life […]