This “new” normal I’m in, this walking around in a new skin that feels like a daughter of the King and learning to believe it, is exhilarating most days. I find my old fears fading. My courage and boldness and joy are growing into strong plants with stems that feel thick as a redwood tree. …
I’m gonna write this out real fast like before I swallow too hard and think too much and chicken out. It’s been in my mind for weeks. That is how it is with me. I feel an idea hatching itself in my mind, my spirit, and then the title comes to me and all the …
I fell asleep easy enough. But, I woke myself up scratching my palm and I thought to myself, “How weird is that? I wake myself up scratching my itchy palm? I wonder if I googled that that somewhere someone claims that means something, sort of like if your ears burn someone is talking about you?” …
In 31 days it will be a year since he’s gone, my father. It makes me shake my head to clear it when I realize that. How could that many days have come and gone? And so much life has already been accounted for that he’s “missed”. Weddings and grandkids setting off on their own …
I notice them. Almost every time. I feel them before I see them. And I start looking in corners. There’s a Velveteen Rabbit in here somewhere. I know that. Because I am one. We Velveteen’s, once we’ve been made free, always want to go back and find the others. When you’re still in your corner, …