from my heart to yours…
While talking with women and friends in all walks of life, secrets are shared and stories told. Some of them involve assault, that ugly word that we avoid discussing. When statistics say that one in three women (some say one in five women) have endured sexual assault we can assume that there are several with …
For how long will you allow your rights to be disregarded?
4am and lost in thought. Thinking of dreams unrealized and promises broken. Leadings of God not followed and the unhappy consequences of those actions. Praying a little. “God, you know what I want to do with my life, right?”, even as I look forward at the years which lie ahead to realize that the number …
Pain or no pain,
Happily ever after,
or happily never after,
We only have today
to love or not to love.
Well - I went out on a date. - "Alma, what the heck? Are you aware that you are in a neck brace?" umm... yes. But he asked me. More than once. I offered my polite excuses, He said, "So what?". He asked me to dinner and said I could eat with him just as …
I marvel as he continues to draw me even still, and it causes the flickers of hope to ignite within me that maybe,
No matter how Broken You Are, No matter how low you feel, No matter how blind you are, I promise The God of Heaven sees you. On the way home I was thinking about when the disciples asked Jesus why a certain man was blind. It was on my mind because of a conversation I …
When I was young, maybe 18, I stood on top of a hill in Manchester, MI, and watched a summer storm come in. I stood in the rain and wind until my aunt made me come into the house for threat of lightning. It was thrilling and scary. I felt so small And so ALIVE. …
This holiday season was blessed. I had a warm glow in my heart nearly every single day. Nothing could extinguish the joy. Tiny coals were glowing in the ashes of my heart. Unexpected gifts, Tiny mementos found their way into my home and into my hands. A bear that my cousin gave my daughter in …
This may be one of my favorite quotes in the world. And it's so hard to choose just one. Being in a very authoritarian marriage, where our church preached something called "Spiritual Authority", a concept backed up by many biblical scriptures, A woman was to submit to her husband whenever there was an impasse in …
...Just Thoughts... 