Here in His Presence

Take it.  Take it all.  I have so often cried to God.  Hands elevated.  To Heaven. Throwing it all away. “I don’t need it anyway.  I don’t need any of it….If I have you,” I used to say.   Emphatically.  Irrationally.  Words, emotionally thrown around, not considering their significance. But, then today.  I stand here.  Prayer answered.  […]

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When Death Becomes Life

I walk down white hallways, the ones so familiar now. These…..the exiting ones.  Clinging to a thread….from eternity. They dangle on breaths.  Finding life in respirators, and pills, and televisions that spill out glimpses of the world they once knew. These sterile walls….their home.  A refuge….their middle earth…..between here and Heaven’s Song…. And I taste it […]

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The Unseen

Back from China.  Here is a writing from day 1 in China. We have seen the children.  Here.  In an orphanage. …..God’s people. Disabled.  Deformed.  Blind. The Forgotten Ones…. Cleft lips.  Babies left.  Ants crawling on…..as they find…..infant left on the ground. Hands tied.  To chairs….Potty chairs.  Or beds.  Or bottles. Babies rocking.  Back and forth.  […]

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