Faith. The faith fight. The topic of my life. Yet, faith is believing in something we can’t see. But, what if…. What we see….with spiritual eyes….has. Is. Has always been….more real than what we see with the flesh? What if the temporal is more like a box we’re trapped in? …..And we mourn for and ache […]
I wake to the moon that just sung you goodnight. Recalling the bundle that I once held in my arms. And how lassos and wishes and hearts can’t hold you back. A dream awakened. A calling placed…..in the ground like a seed….in the heart of you. Grown by God. Now bearing fruit. And I am so […]
Sometimes you have one of those days…..where everything just seems to go wrong. The day we left for L.A. was one of those days. We missed our plane. Then, we learn, this new airline only departs for L.A. every five hours. So, we go back to retrieve our car. Optimism slowly starving. And my spirit searches […]
I stand in the center of a map of the world. Call2All Conference in L.A. And I hear a voice. Familiar. Deep. Coming from behind. The piece of me I have so longed to see….. And there you are. Tan. Tall. Shining bright before all. And you look different: Older. Wiser. Brighter…….with the light of Jesus. […]
Word Unspeakable. Offensive. Disreputable. Disrespectable. Disregardable to many. And it makes me question….. This word….is it part of our being? And do we often run from. Reject. Disown things that reflect pieces of ourselves we don’t like? The word? Homeless. And I question…. Does this word offend us….because Home isn’t in us? And this world…..though beautiful. […]
We had not even left. When seeds stirred restless in my soul….. To return. China. Something more….than any place I have known before. God seed sprouting….planted four years earlier. In a dream. Seeing Asian children, inside an orphanage. And never imagining I would have really been there. The faces. The people. Somehow not foreign. Soil moistened…..by […]