I curl closer. Locking my arms around his middle. Tucking my chin down around the bend in his neck. Finding warmth from this freezing. Neighbors laughing. Stories of bears. Shivers camping around my extremities… Keeping me awake. Marshmallows still lay on the picnic table from the evening before. The coals now separated. Alone. Cold. Much like […]
The Northwest is known for rain. Anyone who lives here, knows it’s no myth that it rains, non-stop, constantly, about ten months of the year. In winter, people hide indoors. Seasonal Effective Disorder is a condition plaguing our little corner of the nation. Isolation. Sadness. Depression. Hibernation. Many here have had it. I have had it. […]
John 10:2,3,7,9 “But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the […]
Dinner time. In orphanage. In China. Struggling through white rice….made with more love than any bowl could hold. First night in orphanage. Three plane rides far away from home. And we walk into kitchen. “Xie xie”….to say, “Thank you” in Chinese. We then ask….to paint nails….for many. And fingers and toes….a representation of love. And Jesus […]