Curled over in the darkened night, wolves howling in the distance, a small ember barely seen amidst the blanketed sky, trees thrashing in the wind, rain threatening to put out the fire desperate to be kindled. Alone, is a show on the History Channel. It takes individuals, sets them out on islands in the Pacific Northwest, […]
“Blessed are the poor in spirit.” (Matt 5:3) The words ring out from the page, on my daughter’s tenth birthday. A birthday shared without the one she loves close, beside her. And I think about this word, “Obedient”. About the mom who for a year offered us her own two kids, and how we walked faithful to […]
I’m just as human as the next guy (or gal). I see the black masks, hear the endless media portrayals of what happened in Paris on Friday the 13th. I know the reality. There are hidden cells, people who look just like you and me waiting to go around and blow themselves up… Worse yet, they […]
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 […]
I don’t know about you…but I am a runner. A runner, like Moses. And I have boasted, like Joseph. Been lost in the desert, like Jacob. Waited, for that staircase from heaven…slicing a gap between here and eternity. Prayed for Him to show me His purposes, hoping for ascending and descending angels linking eternity with […]