“Sing some more Mommy.” Seven-year-old hands tug at my coat, barely sitting down, holding a paper that slipped out of my Bible from a funeral of a neighbor we loved. “Oh the Old Rugged Cross, so despised by the world, Has a wondrous attraction to me”, I fill noted full, heart broken for a world rejecting […]
She wakes, stumbles downstairs, nothing in hand, clinging to the mug she sips coffee from. And He waits… Kids clamor awake. She pulls herself up from her slumbering state, feeding them, gets them ready for their day. And He waits…. Bus comes. Finally the house is silent. The demands of little hands aren’t there pulling at […]
He disappears. Never a good sign when the house is full and the heart is empty. Children run across dirty carpets. Retriever hovers desperately, though all her needs are met. And then, an hour later he returns. Door shut behind, where I can’t see it. Zombie-like, my eyes stay locked on our open field….hands sunk deep […]
They say he is “just a man”, sandals drifting through the sand. Calloused feet, well warn hands. I travel with Him long and wide. The scoffers hide in the shadows of him speaking; dissecting, claiming discernment. But I can’t blame them…they haven’t seen what I have seen. His words dance out in melodic rhythm; His eyes […]
He giggles upstairs. Him and the daughter who sat, distraught on a bench with me many weeks ago. (See story below) A dark skinned boy his age, sits cardboard-like, on my eighteen year-old’s night stand. “Whose that?” I peek my head around the corner, and two children, eighteen and five, face each other, half curled up, […]
Ever wake one day and something you treasured deeply was gone…just gone? My ninety-year-old great-aunt bought property in Florida, decades ago. She lived where it was open, remote, free. But before long, she heard reports of a “bad community of people” living deep behind the woods that lined her property. At night their thumping music echoed […]