For days I’d been living in a wasteland.My heart was tired. My spirit was spent. I had wandered from the refuge of the promised landand I was dying of thirst. God looked down on me with his arms crossed.“My child, aren’t you tired of living this way?Aren’t you ready to come home?” But I refused …
Make Every Day Valentines Day.
So it’s the day after Valentines Day. You’re probably feeling some sort of relief. You might be in a relationship and you’re just glad that the pressure is over to plan the right date, buy the right flowers and write the perfect card. Or you might be single and you’re relieved that you no longer …
He Knows What We Need.
I wonder what it was like to be her. She was so young. Some scholars say she could have been as young as 13. I imagine her to be fairly ordinary as far as her appearance goes. She probably had dirty feet, maybe frizzy hair, a blemish or two on her face… I doubt she …
5 Reasons to Love the Hiccup Month.
The scraggly arms of the tree out my window rise like a beggarbeckoning the sunthe frost from the night before still dances on her fingertipscome closer, come closer, she pleadsthe sun hides behind a cloak of grayshe is timid this time of yearwalking in the woods without her sometimes feels like holding ones breaththe piercing …
The Right to Life.
My heart is heavy as I sit here to write. I wasn’t exactly sure what I’d post this week; I was thinking about maybe sharing a bit of poetry, or tips about surviving the winter blues- something a little lighter and different than the content I’ve written about so far. But then Wednesday happened. And …