Sorrow is a heavy thing. Going through the necessary motions of the day, I have felt as though I'm slogging through knee deep mud. I have felt that way because I have been.
What a week. A...
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I was twenty-two years old when my father told me that the cancer had returned with a vengeance. We had thought he was clear, done, finished. The CAT scans had told us the cancer had been defeated by the rigors of...
READ MOREI read in the paper today that according to a study done by the Guttmacher Institute, the number of abortions in the United States has fallen to its lowest level since 1973. 1973 was a big year. On January 22, 1973 in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme...
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I remember the day well that a miracle happened. My weekly women’s Bible study had broken into our small group of eight and finished up going over the guide’s questions when a woman’s heart showed up. She didn’t have a...
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I’m not going to throw away my scale today but I am going to ask my husband to hide it.
A number has ruled my life since a fateful day in the 1st grade. The school nurse had lined up all the students to record...
READ MOREChristmas is just days away and here I am blogging about something for January! Craaazy, I know! And though I would like some particular times to go more slowly (i.e. vacations, holidays, celebrations...) time continues to speed by. So, I am...
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Smack dab in the middle of the Christmas season I can feel such a compulsion to strive. Often my heart is not at rest waiting for Jesus to come to me yet again, but straining; desperately reaching for entrance into the place where...
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My husband John is a health food nut, er…advocate, er…aficionado…umm, person from way back. Thirty-five years ago, before it was even remotely cool, he was a nutritionist at a tiny little health food store called The...
READ MOREOften I feel like I am standing outside of my own life looking through a plate glass window that I cannot pass. On the other side are those I love. I have watched my husband and sons play with a freedom and ease of soul that was foreign to me...
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Jesus is a master Storyteller. Speaking the language of the heart, Jesus taught through parables so we would better understand him. The Bible is ripe with one story after another. Remember the story of the woman in Mark 5 with the...
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The other night I was lying on the floor with worship music playing. But I wasn’t lying on the floor worshipping. I was wondering. The day had not been a great one. I was exhausted from travel and too many conversations and I thought...
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The other night I was lying on the floor with worship music playing. But I wasn’t lying on the floor worshipping. I was wondering. The day had not been a great one. I was exhausted from travel and too many conversations and I thought...
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September 11th today. I am remembering. Praying. Hoping. And blogging. Not about national security or fallen heroes or even the importance of remembering. In the midst of this important day, I’m writing again about...
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Dear ones,
I share the following for all those who are letting their children go further into their own lives. Into Kindergarten. Into the dorm. Into the next season of their lives. I share the following from my heart that doesn't...
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My youngest son and his girlfriend are making us dinner. In my kitchen. Right now! And I don’t have to do ANYTHING!!!! I’m not even going to set the table! Oh, okay, fine, I’ll offer to set the table. But that’s it! No salad to...
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I had the privilege yesterday to sit with a friend at the hospital in the “Surgery Waiting Room.” Okay, that is holy ground if ever there is any. The emotions in the place are thick. The memories for me in the place are rampant. Raw...
READ MOREI think there’s only so much beauty a soul can hold. We vacationed in the majestic Tetons this July. Again. And again, God came and met me there. It is for me a thin place. A place where the distance between Heaven and Earth, between my not...
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