This last week has changed my life. The house of sticks that has been built over time….has been crumbling down. And this heart once lost in innocence and trust and faith keeps battling against getting hard. And it is as if……..a Picasso piece that once was created. Slowly. Carefully. Painted by the hand of God…. Now […]
We are snowed in. Have been for days. White powder, like grace, covering the world as we know it. Leaving it…. Quiet. Dark. Still. And the cars. The noise. The tireless efforts of our lives….seems to come to a stop. Abruptly. Nestled in. Blankets chin high. Hunkered down tight. Like the clean, perfect white, layers outside. […]
We are all born. Pieces of Heaven. With our own glimpses of revelation. In us. Through us. God with us….from the time we enter….Creation. But then, “The Drift” takes over. Like gravity, running through us….pulling us down….to earths level. Making us into cold, intellectual, mathematical………controllable types of people. Making decisions apart from Divine’s wisdom. Because reasons. […]
“Surrender” and “Faith”. Two powerful words. Words inseparable. Words definable by the Christian walk. And I have seen and been either one or the other. Surrendered One.…….Fasting. Praying. Pleading. Aching for more of Him. Or…. Faithful one.….Fully comprehending…..He is enough. Yet, hesitant to move forward and do really much. One, incomplete without the other. Surrender […]
New. Beginning again. Starting over. Fresh. Change. Different. Wiped Clean. Have you heard them? Have you been…..the one wanting a new start? Have you stopped and looked back and thought……“This past year was challenging, difficult, hard”? Have you been wanting a white canvas to begin painting on again? I have been there. Wanting past years to […]
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 […]