Have you ever seen a marriage, family, neighbor, or church…divided? It’s a gruesome sight. Like a war with casualties lying around, limbless. Often the result of divisions is a bloody mess. Still in retrospect, how many people really think they are the ones creating division? Often we won’t notice this type of war until after everything around us […]
Seeing God in the Stranger Who Sleeps in the Shadow of the Steeple.
We walk the streets of Vancouver B.C. Porches and vintage automobiles buzzing by speedily. Dull eyes, busy feet beat the streets here in this late night, city life. Dresses, heals, and suits in the latest fashions, stop and look at their imagine in the mirrors of the store fronts. I sympathize. I used to be one […]
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 Social Justice Leads You Away from Jesus
We care for orphans. It’s just what we do. From the time I was a little girl, I had a passion to help the lost, rescue the hurting, advocate for those treated unjustly. It’s hard work and not always fun. No one likes the trenches in a war. They are deep, dirty; they are darker, and […]
Stop Running
I wind around her in the grocery store. You know. Back and forth, back and forth…that pattern we make as we go through the same old grocery store. Up and down the isles. She turns down each isle, the same as I do…except she is going in the opposite direction. Her face thin. Her stature […]
How to Flow Freely in Christ in a World Made of Stone.
I see her face. The miracle I have been waiting to meet. Her chest breathes, up and down, up and down. And I rest in the fact that only God’s hand could have found her when He did. Something happened the last time I went to China. My me-eyes turned outward. They began to see God’s […]