Ever had a dream that you were running from someone? You know; heart beating, palms sweating, eyes darting back to see if your pursuer is about to overtake you? I did. In fact, frequent nights, I lived this nightmare in childhood. Yet somewhere along the way, my running became a way of life. And after a […]
“I hate my skin”. I hear from the backseat. Words not from a “cutting” teenager….but a seven-year-old. A child not even a decade. Worse yet, it was my child saying this. Her preschool aged brother then nonchalantly suggests, “Well then, why don’t you just shave it off.” I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh at […]
I am from Arlington, Washington. The small city, now on the map due to the landslide here in Oso. And when we think of disaster and travesties, we think about them in other places, not home. For we as people are good at separating, compartmentalizing, dividing our spirits from those things that hurt us. We want […]
“Without faith it is impossible to please God.” There is a faith crying out to us…in the wind. It calls, “come nearer”. It whispers, “hope”, “believe”, “persevere” for there is more we are not tasting, higher steps we have yet to embrace because of fear. I climb blindly. Will you? Will you rest on wings like […]
Sky darkens, earth shakes, lives seem to suffocate under mud, searching desperately for oxygen. While others seem to have an I.V. An answer. A solution for everything. A way to cope and control their future and their own destiny… But what if God just wants us to pray? Some claim education is the only hope of […]
“According to Persecution.org, 200 million Christians are being persecuted in the world today for their faith.” Yet, for the most part the media is silent. While in the mountains of Guatemala, I met an arm-less man filled with Jesus. A missionary there explained to us, a “neighbor” cut it off with a machete because he converted to […]