I love a new year. It just is a time-marker - a split second in time that begs us to slow down, to refocus, to remember. I embrace the hesitation - the reflection, focus, and dreaming....Looking back over the years I have lived, and looking forward to the time to come - each second God allows me to breathe. And I wonder - what would I change? What would I focus on? This year has me a little more reflective than others - I battled hard this past year with mysterious health problems. In … [Read more...]
Bare Souls
We are so comfortable with a casual glance and hello, than we are with deep conversations and life stories. It is so much easier to connect with people on a level just below the surface and than to reveal our struggles and inadequacies. And so we move through life, never knowing deep friendship. Afraid that if someone really knew us, they wouldn't like us that much. Probably because we know ourselves pretty well, and there are times we don't like ourselves that much either. We put on our … [Read more...]
When It is Not For Our Good…
It started back in April - the signs of illness starting to rear it's ugly head. We tried a number of obvious solutions which failed to deliver a cure. More doctors, more tests, more unknowns. Extreme fatigue and nausea left me unable to do much and my five young kids learning to fend for themselves. There were so many people praying for healing, and so much advice. I was thankful for the prayers. So thankful. I started out praying for healing, but healing continued to allude. And others … [Read more...]
Famished
A friend of mine told me her story - how she bled that others might live and how she thought of Him in the midst.... Let's start at the beginning and I will tell the story the way I see it in my mind..... She's running slightly late, thinking of all the parts of her day left undone - the laundry, the errands - even lunch, which never found time to be eaten. She drives quickly, but not so quickly as to alert any official - afterall, she is married to one of them, and what would be more … [Read more...]
Whatever you do…..
I ponder long, racking my brain for what words I might pen to a one-line statement. How do I summarize a life? We spend our lives with words - speaking who we are out loud to others, but also the conversations in the deep inner parts. Those words that bring worry or regret, rejoicing or peace. We turn words over, repeating them. They have the power to encite, to stirr up anger and wrath or to calm - a peaceful hymn murmered when things are turning sour and you just have to hold. on. … [Read more...]
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