Weathering the Seasons
The end of a season can feel like a fail. Driving up the mountain, my daughter-in-love Hilary and I notice the dry summer leaves along the roadway. Despite ninety degree days, the longer, cooling nights testified to the imminence of fall. “I always feel like I have to...
Potter’s Prerogative
broken by design on purpose destruction deliberate yet compassionate to my ignorant eye pain, heartache, meaningless to Your all seeing redemption made real in the cracks and broken places the healing begins wounds and pieces glued back together with love and truth...
Soul Food
My soul is starving. Like that hunger after the holidays when you just want something simple, wholesome to eat. Sugared out, your body craves health. Things like fruit. Fresh. Simple tastes that simply feed your body's true hunger. In all the revelry of the holidays...
Happy New Year
It's a unique reflection. A whole year at a time. Not the way we usually look back. Or forward, which I find particularly foreboding. Reflecting on 2011, I imagine myself one year ago today. Had I known all that was to come, good and bad, I think like Scrooge when...
Christmas Carols Revisited – 3
I'm feeling it. That latent yet definite sense of panic that rises in every mom's heart 48 hours before THE day. Reason tells me it will come and go whether every last detail is covered or not (and who cares if they're not). But my emotions and mental "to do" won't...
Christmas Carols Revisited – 2
Sleep beckoned, but it was too late. My head was already rattling through the day's "to do" list, so I complied and got up before the sun. For all there was to do, I started the day with coffee and Advent devotions at the table. Sitting there after I'd read, I picked...
Christmas Carols Revisited – 1
The songs of His story are everywhere this season. Calling us back to His gift and truth. I've been trying to listen beyond the music and tunes so familiar they're like the "ABC's." I can sing them without a conscious thought, but this year I'm listening hard to...
