Category: The Doctor’s Office
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Of Pulled Rugs and Tapestries
It has happened again. The rug, Pulled out from under our feet and we are struggling to regain our footing. Reeling. Sad. Clinging. I battled fevers, rash (covered every part of me except my soles and palms), and pain last weekend and until the middle of last week. I was on all kinds of medications […]
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The “Scawy Pahts”
The last few days have been hard. The writer in me wants to come up with a more dramatic word, but my brain isn’t quite working. A brief update… and then a few words I wrote ten years ago. I’ve been on my new oral chemo for nine days now. The side effects were difficult, […]
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No Matter the Season
“No matter the season, the song is the same.” My dad and I were discussing how hard the winter months will be this year. Taking down the Christmas decorations and sending kids back to college and increased cases with the pandemic. The cold, dark days feel a bit more dreary. Then the call came in […]
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God Can, God Cares
Recently, in my Facebook memories, a picture popped up of Bri and me with dear friends who were our campus ministry leaders at JMU many years ago. I wrote: On Friday, they stopped by to see us, and it was sheer gift to laugh and cry, to reminisce and to dream, to see through it […]
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Careening and Spinning and Sliding. And Held.
Wednesday night, I curled on the floor in our den surrounded by my youth group high school girls. As we concluded our Bible study, I looked around at them and said, “Cling to God’s sovereignty. It’s hard, y’all. But the world is never spinning out of control. It’s only spinning out of OUR control.” Y’all. […]
A Spring of Joy 