Popcorn spills all over the floor. Not waking up to a clean house…or a quiet, calm house. But, this morning. Popcorn. And young feet pattering…..looking…..searching through treats left out by teenagers the night before. And I implore…. “Pick up the popcorn…. When we make messes, our job is to clean them up.” And little hands innocently […]
There it was. On a table. Party platter. People gathered. Luring. Tempting me. Questioning the authenticity of recent allergies. Peanuts. Soy. Now seafood. Healthy all my life. Never broke a bone. Hardly had a cold. Bodies. Only human. Can endure only so much. And although I am set free….I know….consequences of life styles always catch up. […]
Rumors fly by like nasty bugs unswattable on a hot summers eve. And the naysayers keep forcing their self-promoting ways, like bullfrogs croaking loudly before sleep. And people are fleeing. Walking away from homes. And families. And hope. ….Everything they have worked for, for years.And it rises in many around….. Dreaded fear. Like Chinese Torture….it comes […]
Peaking around corner. Following songs sound. I see her. Tiny digits dancing across ivories. Voice lifted. Heart engaged fully, playing….Heaven’s Song. I watch unknowingly. Wondering what lured her. Listening. Unrelenting. And I recall….Someone praying, few weeks prior….that though her physical ears can’t hear…her spiritual ears would be opened. And hearts melody floats through our […]
And I read this morning… Your faith must not be a passive faith. For as day’s progress, a spirit of apathy will prevail. And with hardships all around, we moan….But, “We just can’t believe.” Yet, how many untrustworthy things do we have faith in? Man, who is proven fallible, we cling to…Yet, God who is perfect, we […]
Oh God, sew us together with love. When life weighs. Pains rise. Bitterness presses us away from one another. Let love rise. When unforgiveness births within. Recollecting pain from people or things that have happened. May hearts soon turn to Him. His truth. His life… That love would rise. Sew us with your hand of grace. […]