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How is it possible?  How can a memory hold such power that the thought of it stirs up emotion that causes goosebumps to form on her arm?  How could such an insignificant memory have such a profound impact on years of her life? How can a grown woman hold such a small memory inside her […]

 I talked to a friend today.  She’s more than a friend.  She’s family. She talked about her life and her pain and her regret and her fear and her hope. She’s broken. And I love her. But she has secrets.  So many, in fact, that even though she’s an open book and will tell her […]

You ask me to open my hands and offer you everything. Every treasure that you’ve placed in them. Every joy that I’ve known. Every love that’s sustained me. Every gift that you’ve bestowed. Every beat of my heart. Every song I long to sing.  Every fear that weighs me down.  Every tear that’s fallen in […]

I started to write a little ditty about my shopping experience this past Saturday. Mind you, the Saturday that happened to be a week and a half before Christmas. (What were we thinking?) I worked it and played with it and it actually made me laugh.  Maybe because I know what a nightmare it was […]

Words are strange things.  Simply scribblings that have been accepted by the masses to mean something and whose meaning, in this day and time, can just as easily and arbitrarily be changed. Some of us use them with the precision of a surgeons’ knife to cut to the heart quickly and almost imperceptibly.  Some of […]

Over the years, I’ve come to notice that life is much more about uncertainty than it is about certainty.  There are a few things I feel sure of, but on a bad day I can even question those.  That’s the journey, isn’t it?  We don’t know what tomorrow holds.  We don’t always understand why yesterday […]

It seems I can’t be a normal person and work during the day. Oh no! My brain has to wait until after midnight to form cohesive thoughts.  The problem is that I’ve had to get up fairly early lately so I’ve not done a lot of writing. My heart feels it.  I was so burdened […]

  N.T. Wright “After You Believe-Why Christian Character Matters” Lately, I’ve noticed that many who claim to be Christians have a lack of desire to grow, learn or  mature in their faith.  It’s obvious in those that spew out hate, bigotry and ignorance in the name of Christianity; but, I’ve become increasingly convicted that it has […]

Have you ever had one of those moments that’s so wonderful  it leaves an emptiness  in your heart?  One of those moments in which your soul aches  because of the beauty you see,and because you realize there has to be so much more? I love this quote from C.S. Lewis because it speaks to the truth of these moments […]

I’ve been thinking about life lately.  How fragile it is.  How short it can be. How fleeting it is in the face of eternity. How it’s both insignificant and of great significance all at the same time. I’ve had so many thoughts and conversations that my mind started to crave a place of rest and  quiet.