I never saw God as just. It hits me as I sit stunned in my dirty-brown pub chairs, arms leaning on my lap-top, studying the word, “tzedek” meaning, “righteousness” and “justice” in Hebrew. I have been burdened with this word, “justice” ever since I started homeschooling and my nine-year-old’s inquisitive mind kept asking what “justice” was. […]
When Churchy People Toss Around, “Bless You”. What’s Blessing?
Far from a golden chariot, on four wheels, I’m rolled out from the hospital. Husband waits with the door of our car open, my prince charming in every sense. And with groggy words, I turn as I lift myself from those wheels, after asking the lady pushing me, about her life, children, work, and job fulfillment. […]
Hold On. You’ve Almost Made it
A few seconds before sitting down and writing this, I get bad news. A call I never dreamed. A person surfacing that I thought we’d never face again. And I reel like many of you have; when you’ve been taken back, discouraged, disheartened by the reality that life isn’t going your way. And who said, skies […]
Marriage Lessons from a Ninety-One-Year-Old in the Grocery Isle. And UNITE Linky
I was only joking when I started thumping on watermelons. But just like my husband, he turns to the wrinkly old man near us and carelessly asks, “How do you tell when watermelons are ripe?” I wanted to run, hide. But then the man answered, looking straight at us, making a fist, he thumps his knuckles […]
When God Cares About A Septic Tank & Sees What’s Hidden In Our Souls
It was the most bizarre thing. I was standing at the kitchen sink, not thinking about anything…and I hear this familiar whisper, “Have your husband call about cleaning the septic tank”? My mind almost had to catch the whispers aiming at my heart… As I just couldn’t understand why my God would care about a septic tank. […]
When You Don’t Know Who You Are
There it lay, a face. Staring back at me from the asphalt, burning under the hot afternoon heavens. And I wondered why this lamented card used to identify us; was left, abandoned, distant from the one who owned it. I pick it up, read it. Realizing with it there is the power to drive, buy things, […]