Clinging Desperately To Christ

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 […]

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The Drift

We are all born.  Pieces of Heaven. With our own glimpses of revelation.  In us.  Through us.  God with us….from the time we enter….Creation. But then, “The Drift” takes over.  Like gravity, running through us….pulling us down….to earths level. Making us into cold, intellectual, mathematical………controllable types of people. Making decisions apart from Divine’s wisdom.  Because reasons.  […]

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When We Run From God

When my son was little, he was a runner. He darted in stores.  Down streets.  And ran with great fever, wherever he went. To keep Him close…..so he wouldn’t get hurt……we found a long, rainbow Safety Leash that we wrapped around his waist. It had a handle on one end that we would double up around […]

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Thankful for Offense…..And Other Relative Issues.

We have been going along fine. One year after hosting a small group.  Something God told my husband to do…..a decade ago. But, I refused. Until, one night….I see an image of people filling our living room…..in a dream.  And I heard a voice from heaven say….. “Many will come in.  And many will go out […]

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His Healing Touch

The first words out of my mouth when I saw her was…. “She is dead”. Lifeless head.  Body wrapped in blankets a mile high. Her skin transparent….. Weighing somewhere around five pounds.  This delicate shell lay there…. On plywood. Screaming one.  Beside her.  Face born open between nose and mouth. Cleft lip. The cry of a […]

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God……In China.

I sit in church…..in China. Young girl interpreting beside me. And there are no stories.  No introductions to conversations of man…. That corrupt this Holy Place. And before beginning.  One sat down beside us.  Hands folded.  Head bowed. Mouth slowly mumbling prayers. And I wonder what petitions are about. Another in front of me with child. […]

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