I go to lunch each day and sit with the kids because they make the light shine bright and I get to hear how much they like math and science (what?!) and that they are just really excited that their friend gets to spend the night tomorrow night and they have popcorn in their lunchbox …
Nothing throws you, God. Nothing. So when we are thrown? Pray Father, that we find ourselves landed in Your lap still holding our questions. Grab hold of our attention span and cause us to notice with Your heart. I’m asking you to remove the spirit of heaviness, the garment of mourning, and replace it with …
Today was picture day at school and well……since I don’t fancy myself picture worthy, it’s just so much awkward posing. Head tilted just so, hands at sides. Surely we don’t really have to go through with this? But, as I stepped up to the plate, the first of the day, the lovely young girl taking …
It began when I asked Him for the crazy wild favor that feels presumptuous. But after all, He told me that when my hands and heart are clean, I will carry away a blessing. So, I let Him wash me and then I grabbed my bucket and went down to the water to wait. Friday, …
It’s in quotes, that word “almost”, because to put it literally seems to me to forget that with God there are no “almosts”. But this is what happened that day…… This pregnancy was precarious from the beginning. I began spotting almost immediately and I felt a certain sense of fear that I couldn’t shake. I …