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A Small Word That’s Really Huge
Today was exhausting. Each day is, really. I wake and wonder how on earth I will do all that I want or need to do, and by the end of the day I’ve only done a bit of it, and I wonder how I’ll get up the next day and keep pushing forward. It’s an…
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What Has Been Given
What has been given is not what we want, and it has been a bitter road to accept. Since the moment we heard it was cancer again, the cry of my heart has been to just see Jesus in this, to just know that He is here and with me, because I haven’t felt Him…
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If He’s Good, I’m Good
She sat beside me this morning on the swing and we raised our arms high, signing “I love you” to Brian as he drove off to work in his Chevy truck (please pronounce that with a hard “ch” not the soft “sh”. That’s what Brian does to make me laugh, and if y’all feel anything…
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Bedtime Prayer: Just As I Am
I wondered how to come to You, I did not dare believe it true, That You regard the orphaned ones: Beloved daughters, worthy sons. The broken and the barren, too, I heard could find some rest in You. What kind of love in injury’s place, Would leave instead the stain of grace? So I come…
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Praying Over Zinnias
This morning, I stood at my kitchen sink and stared unfocused out the window at the dewy yard. I couldn’t see the ragged canes of our black raspberry patch straggling through the yard, because yesterday morning some of our former youth and college kids came with their father and cleaned it all up for us.…
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A Spring of Joy 