When Cancer Wins and Sun Shines with Amazing Grace.

It’s the drive that those who love, never want to take.  The one where lives dangle from last breaths…..and winter has no spring coming.  The time where no more stories will be told. No more eyes will see…..the beauty of God in Creation.  In people. In this world.  This God gift all around. And we make […]

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God is Still Good!

God is still good….. When noise of pain echos in people’s ears…..and God speaks truth to try to draw them close to Him…but, they refuse to hear…. God is still good! When there is a typhoon on the very same island our son is now staying on… And we haven’t heard from him….. God is still […]

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Hei Matau: The Reason We Missed Our Plane

Sometimes you have one of those days…..where everything just seems to go wrong.  The day we left for L.A. was one of those days. We missed our plane.   Then, we learn, this new airline only departs for L.A. every five hours. So, we go back to retrieve our car.  Optimism slowly starving. And my spirit searches […]

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Finding Rest

Though there are a million things to do….I open the Word this morning and read……“The rest”…in Hebrews.   “Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall…..”   And, I think of how…..“The Rest” is the same as the, “Be Still”.   The knowing He is God that comes when we stop, take the time, make […]

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Is Jesus Who He Said He Was?

I woke up with a thought….. “Jesus professed to be God”.   And how no one….not Mohammed, or Buddha, or Gandhi, or Moses….. Ever said that they were in fact, Christ. And yet, Jesus professed…. He has been with God from the beginning of time. (John 17:5) And He was crucified because His claim didn’t change.  (John […]

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Ponderings from the Pond 2: Where Fire Burns Deep

The moment my foot touches grass, it is as if creation rejoices that I’ve abandoned tile floors…..and entered into natures home.  The breath inside my lungs expands…..as I am….. Drawn outdoors. And I am taken, it seems, by my Makers hand…..To something more. A picture.  Or a story. I have yet to learn…. And to be […]

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