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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We drive around for half an hour. Looking for parking at an open air mall that calls us….because neighbors and friends continually keep asking….. Are you going shopping? The big day. The big thing. Buying more than needed. Caught up in the hurricane that roars in desperate silent pleadings…… “What you have is not enough.” And […]