I was tired. Burned right out. The mountains had moved and my skin was feeling the itch of dirt and I just wanted a nice long hot bath. But I couldn’t escape. I lived right there in the middle of my mission. Every day they came, knocked at my door. These unruly children who left…
In the months that followed the Connecticut shootings back in 2012 I saw all these debates online. Gun control. Mental illness. People reaching and stretching for reasons. It’s because there was access to a gun. It’s because we haven’t correctly diagnosed and helped those with mental illness. It’s because we don’t pray in school. It’s because it has become politically incorrect…
Years ago, I had a dream. It was one of those vivid-remember-every-detail-when-you-wake-up kind. It began on a playground where crowds of people were playing. Children and adults milled everywhere. It was then that I saw it. A baby. Lying on the ground by the swing-set. It was ice cold and it didn’t move. I rushed to…
There have been stories circulating lately. Stories about modern-day slavery and women who are trapped tight and dying slowly over months and years. And we see pictures and hear these tales that make us angry and horrified but they seem so far away. We may buy jewelry or bags or donate money with the promise…
Have you ever noticed that Kings and Chronicles are similar? Same story, same characters, different writer voice. In fact, Chronicles repeats many of the previous books, starting in Genesis. As a young girl, I would read and wonder. Why did God repeat himself? I was around ten years old when I overheard the answer. I…
It’s green. A dark forest green with these bright swirly things on the doors. A 1994 F350 with 4-wheel drive, a 7.3 and a plow. It’s a beast. It rumbles and grinds and backfires occasionally. We bought it for sixteen hundred, partly for the plow attached to the front and partly because it has the…
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