Have We Missed What Matters Most?

I wake.  Tip-toe down spiral staircase, after squinting to see…5:30 a.m.  The world’s asleep. It’s quiet.  Still. Serene… Caught between the fog of another world and the reality that business constantly insists, I do. The dark is pierced by Christmas lights.  Greeting me. Shining right through confusion. Each light announcing the birth of so much more. […]

Continue Reading

When Life Has Landmines. How to Respond.

I look around, outside my life, and see a war zone. Families. Children. Marriages. Almost as if the world is walking around blind, unaware that they are stepping on…. Landminds. I grieve the catastrophes.  My eight year old neighbor, like a son, having to move because his parents are divorcing. A mom struggling as her nine […]

Continue Reading

Does God Meet Us Half Way?

My husband once told me. Twenty years ago. “I believe in miracles. But, I also believe that God looks for people to meet Him half way.” At the time, I was young and way too full of myself.  Delighted with the fact….that God could do anything.  Believing all we needed to do was pray…. And whatever […]

Continue Reading

When Your Shrinking Dink Life Heats Up

You know something is wrong, when you eat chocolate for breakfast. And not just bite sized.  Lady like. Hershey kisses kind of helpings.  But a big, with almonds, kind of chocolate bar. Sitting.  Feeling like a Shrinky Dink.  Stuck inside a oven.  Heat turned on.  High setting.  And somehow, required to grow in it.  So big. […]

Continue Reading