Dear friends, I’ve decided not to die… It’s not like I wanted to die, it’s just that I thought I had nothing left to do that would ever matter. It wasn’t that I was looking at the number fifty in my life’s rearview mirror, it was that my babies were all officially raised. Raised and thriving. Thriving and accomplishing. Accomplishing …
Dear Christian, this is not our home
I write this with a measure of fear in my heart. A fear that if I talk about this, write about this, or even think about this that I’m setting myself up for what must be the deepest pain known to man. That something horrible will happen within my family. Yet with open hands and a choice to trust I …
Grabbing up some sunshine and tucking in some hope!
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. Ecclesiastes 3:11-12 I knew a man years ago that had …
The darkness will not overcome the light.
As I felt the warmth of the running water cross my knuckles and surround my fingertips I began to swirl the thick soap into white, sweet smelling bubbles. I reached for my favorite tea cup beside my kitchen sink and noticed the golden light reflecting on my hand. I looked out my kitchen window and noticed that the little old …
Although the world is full of suffering…
Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it. -Helen Keller When you read that, how does it make you feel? For me, right now, it feels like a lifeline!