Maybe, Just Maybe

I marvel as he continues to draw me even still, and it causes the flickers of hope to ignite within me that maybe,

A Waterfall of Grace

The past two days contained rough waters Demanding navigation From a girl without a paddle  From a woman with no oars. An authority upset with me - half for the wrong reason, and half with good reason, (a weak area in performance).   There were demands, "Amend this.". One can fix the second, but not …

The Best Kind of Father

Today is an emotional day. Yesterday was too, and I did my best to throttle every fanciful thought that cropped up in my mind uninvited, the way we try to stop weeds from overtaking our garden. But today - Today is the day that humility clothes me like a garment. I am reviewing things from …

Modern Day Dowry

It is funny, how we can allow our vessels, the clay pots we inhabit,to get so filmy inside. Maybe things we read, or see, or allow ourselves to see... Things we listen to, allow to enter into us... I have been thinking about something since March. A lot. In English Lit, the children had to …

All you need do is Ask.

Chains. Shackles. Bound around one's ankles so close to the skin that one fears they will go to the grave with them attached. No one knows how to safely remove them without injuring themselves. If they did - they wouldn't be wearing them. Habits. Compulsions. Addictions wound around the heart like seaweed wrapped around the …

Surrender

I can't sleep.  Thinking about what God is doing lately. Sharing some of it with you. You know - when I am working with a little child in a therapy session, sometimes I have to run a "my turn" trial. It is when I hold my hand out - palm up - for the item …