He giggles upstairs. Him and the daughter who sat, distraught on a bench with me many weeks ago. (See story below) A dark skinned boy his age, sits cardboard-like, on my eighteen year-old’s night stand. “Whose that?” I peek my head around the corner, and two children, eighteen and five, face each other, half curled up, […]
Cutting the Apron Strings and Letting Our Children Go
She swooped the roller across her lime green walls. And once where there was bright colors. Black was all I saw. Covering like the sorrow wallowing from my heart. What happened to my little girl? Why did she want black walls? What had I done wrong in this life to make my sparkles loving, pink, tiara […]
When God Calls
I wake to the moon that just sung you goodnight. Recalling the bundle that I once held in my arms. And how lassos and wishes and hearts can’t hold you back. A dream awakened. A calling placed…..in the ground like a seed….in the heart of you. Grown by God. Now bearing fruit. And I am so […]