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When You Can’t Sleep. And Prayers Aren’t Enough.

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A cock-a-doodle do reminds me that morning is coming. Sun peering over the horizon. Barely. And I cannot sleep. It’s my teen.  I worry.  And I think about her far too much. And to be honest.  It is tough.  Taking each child.  Each moment.  Each hour.  And trusting. Placing them carefully, wholeheartedly, intentionally…..in God’s hands. Yet, […]

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When Faith Smothers Fear

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Rumors fly by like nasty bugs unswattable on a hot summers eve. And the naysayers keep forcing their self-promoting ways, like bullfrogs croaking loudly before sleep. And people are fleeing.                             Walking away from homes.                                                                 And families.                                                                             And hope.                                                                                              ….Everything they have worked for, for years.And it rises in many around….. Dreaded fear.  Like Chinese Torture….it comes […]

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