When my husband and I were first married, we would sit…just the two of us….and write out our New Year’s Resolutions on whatever piece of paper jumped out before us. Sometimes our dreams for the coming year were written on notebook paper, sometimes grocery lists, sometimes computer paper. It didn’t matter. All that mattered was that […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]