Ever just want to leap off of the cliff of fear and doubt; wings spread, eyes lifted to the heavens, going were the wind calls? I knew those words were trouble. Drawn to them, but repelled simultaneously…as they sit on my laptop, hidden under the invite from Amy Sullivan..“Will you join me?” But, this year […]
“But I just don’t think I am beautiful”, Egyptian brown eyes look down at the comforter, wrapping her as winter taunts. “Why?”…”But you are beautiful.” I don’t even wait for an answer. Anger. Frustration. Boils in me. I try to hold them down. I knew this day would come. “You are sooo beautiful sweetie”. This mothers-heart […]
I wake as if from a different world. Dreams of tests and running in a competition I am struggling in. Caring about tripping, worried about falling. Looking around me, fearing, what will others think of me? I crawl to my secret place, pajamas still on, coffee in hand. Batting at the sky, asking the God of […]
It had been a long day. I wind down the country road, past pastures, and down the long stretch where most of my neighbors speed. It is these streets, it’s easy to detach. Knowing home is at the top of this large crest..not far in front of us. Usually, this is the road I worship on…wildly. […]
My daughter is African American. I am white. Although I grew up surrounded by diversity, we now live in horse country, surrounded by mostly Caucasian people. I know my Bible… Romans 10:12 “There is no difference between Jew and Greek, the same Lord over all, will answer all those that call upon His name.” […]
I curl closer. Locking my arms around his middle. Tucking my chin down around the bend in his neck. Finding warmth from this freezing. Neighbors laughing. Stories of bears. Shivers camping around my extremities… Keeping me awake. Marshmallows still lay on the picnic table from the evening before. The coals now separated. Alone. Cold. Much like […]