I felt like I “should” be doing something that was more…important; more impressive. Maybe I lacked initiative to really DO something in the world. Maybe I was nothing, could do nothing more important than what I did. Maybe I should be embarrassed. Maybe. But I wasn’t. And sometimes even that bothered me. This is what I …
I wore fear like a muzzle from the time I was a child. I don’t know all the reasons why, really, but I always had a nagging sense of being uninvited. To protect myself, I chose, many times, not to speak. If I didn’t speak, you might not notice me and if you didn’t notice …
They walk IN water puddles, not around them. If there’s a more challenging way to get from one place to another, they take it. When there are noises to be made, they make them with gusto. A song to be sung does not need to be sung the “right” way, but words can be bent …
I’ve tried to write a blog post for almost two hours tonight. I pawed through words like scrabble pieces but they sat mute in their little wooden pews. I wasn’t hearing anything. Except “worship”. Then I realized it was Him, telling me what He wanted. The thing is, I wanted the “company” of words and …
The white Christmas lights that I keep up year round, just because their light makes me happy, are glowing warm tonight in my otherwise dark kitchen. It’s been raining for hours. The trees outside look sad because they don’t have their leaves yet, but I know growth is happening on the inside of them. He …