Billboards, Youtube, Snapchat, Instagram. The world is a speedy mechanism of quick snapshots, promising us what “real” love looks like… And we must long for it… Because these images hook us. We must desire something deeply… Because we have created an entire generation so glued to their phones, they get lost in not seeing the people […]

Over thirty year. That’s how long I spent emmersed in gospel’s teaching me to “get”. One was the gospel of the world. A “gospel” I lived well during my teenage years. The other was what I interpreted from the church. “Get” prettier clothes. “Get” more of Jesus. Strive to “Get” our inheritance or blessing. On and […]

We are not magnets. Yet, how often do we live like that? Drawing, collecting, letting anything & everything around us stick to us? Worse yet, is when “religion” (No, not sincere Jesus following, but man-dictated religion) is used to justify man’s acceptance of worldliness, excessiveness, accumulation, or materialism… Even boasting in arrogance, calling it, “blessed”? Doesn’t […]

My Keurig broke. A few years ago, a tantrum would have ensued at the thought of a delayed cup of coffee. It’s not a secret, I wake slowly, and can rarely have full conversations before being caffinated. But here, decads later, I calmly scoop out the wet grounds from my disfunctional machine, place them in my […]

Fear blanketed me with pity when my eyes first fell upon that determined boy with failing limbs and hesitant eyes. His wobbling body slowly approached that bright green walker, as my husband held out chocolate as a reward for his bravery, half way around the world. A year earlier, in Chi*a, God undid me. I had […]

“Be seen and not heard”, “Be careful what you speak.” Fear and even religion can silence us into being passive bystanders in a world that seems to have so many voices saying nothing. So, we can avoid the landmines and fireworks, and disappear in a land of scrolling other people’s journey’s as a substitute for actively […]