Empty places don’t always need filling. I coast around the cliff, down our hill, across the tracks to the open field, socked with morning dew… White clouds hover over the earth, blinding creation, making it impossible to see, just a few feet in front of me… This morning of empty places, wet spaces, open earth, almost […]
It’s early morning. Our toes sink deep into the cool water engulfing the shore-line. Every step, living foot prints…Like the ones we leave…but often don’t realize it. Every step, an imprinting, for others to see. Our search wasn’t careless. We knew there were treasures….And it was our goal (the goal of all God-breathed beings)…to find them. […]
I almost hit him with my car. He was standing in the road, on the right, doing….who knows what? Like a let-loose bus, I turned the corner racing speedily. Spotting him briefly, then slammed on my breaks. As if given grace, stopping just before his six foot wing span and white, bald head glides directly across […]
I was six; rocking dark-haired Jeffrey like a real infant, back and forth, back and forth; singing sweetly, feeding him from a plastic bottle, liquid disappearing after tilting it just so. Jeffrey accompanied a curly-haired doll, almost too big to hold, a gel-filled baby girl, and stuffed animals I imagined were my very own children. Lining […]
It surfaces on Facebook. A post I had never dreamed of. A family member’s father dies of a heart attack. His child missing saying, “goodbye”. And the words of the wise speak life in their pain, “don’t let walls, division, and bitterness pass up the opportunity to truly love”. I see them all over the place; […]
“Are you going to warm up the car?” My eight-year-old calls while scrambling to put on shoes, eat breakfast, slide on her scarf before running out the door. “I am doing that now”, I respond with toddler in hand, dangling keys, grabbing my cell phone before running to find a car frozen like Hans Solo, frozen […]