Faith is the assurance of things unseen… I had been feeling the tugging at the core of my being. Seen it on the horizon. Had dreams that the crib we leave open for foster children wasn’t going to be empty for too long. My mind saw no name, or age, or date…but my spirit saw a […]
“Crazy. I was just about to call you.” I can almost hear his smile on the other end of the line. “That’s just the way it is when you have been married a long time.” His words confirm our heart connection that only comes after knowing someone, deep, personally, intimately…for a very long time. But I […]
I ache to go to the poor. People ask why. Why when our house is still in remodel-mode, our bank account isn’t overflowing, and we have four kids who we are committed to doting on…. “Why the poor? Why the needy? Why do the most neglected draw your heart, enough for you to get on a […]
I was hiding. Curling up in my own, “I have done enough”. The face of the little one in Dominican. Her mom gone. The village whipping her with sticks, labeling her with words that scar in places human eyes can’t see….“dog”, “fatso”, “worthless”. Thoughts swirling around in me…in corners unchained… Camping on the reality of life […]
She wakes, stumbles downstairs, nothing in hand, clinging to the mug she sips coffee from. And He waits… Kids clamor awake. She pulls herself up from her slumbering state, feeding them, gets them ready for their day. And He waits…. Bus comes. Finally the house is silent. The demands of little hands aren’t there pulling at […]
They say he is “just a man”, sandals drifting through the sand. Calloused feet, well warn hands. I travel with Him long and wide. The scoffers hide in the shadows of him speaking; dissecting, claiming discernment. But I can’t blame them…they haven’t seen what I have seen. His words dance out in melodic rhythm; His eyes […]