What would you ask a pastor in inland China? Well, we had the chance. Three plane flights in. Taxi ride winding around. Obstacles of people. Crunched in seat. Feeling every windy, sharp turn. Smelling fumes rising…..like the breakfast in my stomach…..from that morning. Wondering…Are we ever going to get to that church? The one we felt […]
Why is life so hard sometimes? Treading along the pathway, looking down. Searching for hope in the world. Around us. Fighting fear. Blind with dread. Struggling for hope. Reasoning our life. Our situations. Our circumstances in our heads. I am…it seems. We live. As if Jesus is still dead. And the hope we once had. […]
Today is orphan Sunday. Do you remember when YOU were an orphan? Before you met Christ? When you walked in darkness? Without hope or a family? I do. And it makes me rejoice even more that I am adopted into the Kingdom of God! All glory be to our precious Savior! So, please, celebrate […]
She sits on the edge of diving. Diving into a world foreign to what she knows. She waits. Hesitates. Wants to know…. Is it real? Will this hurt me? Can I really be….something other than what I have been being? And I see the war. So tangible. Waking me in sleeping hours, to help her fight […]
What draws them to the water’s edge? When sharks lurk. And a surfer just got killed a day before they go? What is it in my son’s blood….that drives him to the only place, he feels alive and is ever home? And was it bubbling over, in my husband. Also. Long before we met? This ocean’s […]
I can’t get him out of my head. A sunken feeling. Leaves me breathless. From his image. We pass. The world dances. All around. And he sleeps. As if…. An invisible species. Many not thinking. Worth redeeming. Or feeding…..for that matter. And my husband asks, “Why”….”Why does he capture you so?” And my lips move voluntarily….as […]