According to Universe time…my husband and I knew each other about three seconds before getting married and starting a family. We were in our early twenties, being children in every sense of the word. Survivalist searching for a fairy-tale love, some romantic fulfillment that promises, “Love does exist”. But while offering our lives to work, serving […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is nothing like laying flat on your back for two days straight to put your mind in perspective. For sometimes standing straight up and plowing full force forward can delude ourselves to what we think we need to do…. And as my brother who has a large ministry for troubled teens continually says, “Humility isn’t […]
We walk down this path. Again. You and I. The one you “held back on”. Almost a year ago. When your eyes. Downcast. Heart. Hard. Your smile….. Reluctant. Shadows of pain. Covering your soul. Conversation. Difficult. Careful. Cautious. You. Uncomfortable. Mentioning. The word, “Mother”. Ruffled memories. Making way to unsettling silence. Your fear. That paralyzing fear. Crippling […]
Newton. A word forever marked. Branded. Tattooed in our heads. With images of dead children. Children and death. Painful. Synonymous. The world seemingly. Unjust. Why some. Wake children. And hold them close this morning. While others will not. And as mere men, we reason. Try to unscramble the, “Why’s”. Justify. Unthought of behaviors with. Psychology. Bad […]