When His Shores Are Rest

The beach beckons.  Because indoors can’t contain my soul cry that needs deliverance. And I am lured to the water, as a wanderer through the dessert seeks desperately for life. And I know quite well by now….the earth and it’s foolishness never suffices. It is only the Savior. The Creator. The One called to worship that […]

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Clinging Desperately To Christ

This last week has changed my life. The house of sticks that has been built over time….has been crumbling down. And this heart once lost in innocence and trust and faith keeps battling against getting hard. And it is as if……..a Picasso piece that once was created.  Slowly.  Carefully.  Painted by the hand of God…. Now […]

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When We Run From God

When my son was little, he was a runner. He darted in stores.  Down streets.  And ran with great fever, wherever he went. To keep Him close…..so he wouldn’t get hurt……we found a long, rainbow Safety Leash that we wrapped around his waist. It had a handle on one end that we would double up around […]

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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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When Christmas Brings Pain

There he is.  Clenched palms to chair. Lungs rising slowly……fighting for air. Wriggling in pain.  Last moments….before breath grants no more days. Cancer.  Like a thief in the night.  Taking away bodies ability to fight. The battle’s almost done. Eyes dim.  Struggling one…..recollecting what’s been left undone…….what’s to come. Hoping for answers to the unknown. Fear […]

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