Perfect Summer Days
I think bare toes are my favorite part of summer.
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where there is hope
It’s my father’s voice when I answer. His resigned tones that shudder over the phone line. Words that I have never heard before are read from a medical report. Two words that I know well scream from the shuffled pages. Cancer. Invasive. How dare cancer invade my mother’s body? I would do anything- crawl inside her and…
psst… I have a little secret
Things have been a bit crazy round these parts. Besides the blog make-over (three cheers for Meg, who held my hand through the process) there has been this little thing: Yes. My project is in the wrapping up stage. A tiny little ebook. More on that coming in the next few weeks. In the meantime,…
tracing the promise (of Kings and Chronicles)
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…
Eyewitness
This past weekend, we were getting ready to leave for a trip to Pennsylvania. We knew the trip was coming, were planning on it, and then all of our vehicles went down– the week before we were suppose to leave. Seriously. There was no way we’d be able to afford to fix the (very) expensive issues…
Songs to Believe In {tales of a hometown missionary}
The longer I lived in the little house with the towering lilac bushes, the harder it became to act like all the “things” in life mattered at all. Lost children, without hope, were my heart’s only vision. After work one day, I walked home and saw Litey sitting on the front porch with a guitar,…
A City No Longer Deserted
Like a Potter with a lump of clay, God has traced and refined and spun. He has taught me the value of cracks and scars. He has defined my purpose. He has spread light into me and salted me rich. He’s not done. How glorious! He is still changing and molding and redefining. But some desert moments…
Bare toes in the sand and water are the bestest!