“You are in the hand of God,” I hear Him say. And I see myself laying prostrate. Alone. Like Ann Darrow. In the hand of King Kong. There. Above. Gripping tight. Holding on. Eyes shut. Filled with uncertainty in this darkness of night. Yet, I know that there….In the palm of the Living God….Is the safest place to […]
I have heard it said, “What you read, where you go, and who your friends are will determine who you become.” And I am not too sure. But, I know. I have learned to pick my literary choices and my friends very carefully. Because I thought, education was my redemption. And from a girl who struggled […]
I make a heap at weeks long end. Cross legged safe at the edge of the couch. And thank God….a week non-stop is over. And it is there among my stacks of books…..I dig through…..I look to find the arrow in the dark that directs me to My Savior. And I wait. For waiting. Quiet. Stillness. […]
Faith. The faith fight. The topic of my life. Yet, faith is believing in something we can’t see. But, what if…. What we see….with spiritual eyes….has. Is. Has always been….more real than what we see with the flesh? What if the temporal is more like a box we’re trapped in? …..And we mourn for and ache […]
In the quiet. Out here. Where nothing can be heard. But the downpour of the fallen. The crackling and bolt of pain found deep in the storm now. And I close my eyes to see His face. For the tranquil waters of yesterdays have passed……And no open sky lies before me. Only clouds. Clouds of my […]
Aging knees give no regard to hard wood floors. Blowing away dust of yesterday left to unfold….. Nestling into that place where whispers waver and the voice of thunder shouts out His name. And it is here. In this place…..that I finally let go. Here. Alone. Where questions and reason float from my soul….. Making their […]