Last night I chatted with an old friend. We hadn’t talked in ages. We’d met years ago, volunteering at a Women of Faith Conference in Texas, just after my life had fallen apart: marriage, family, job, home, father, and every beautiful thing I owned suddenly gone. She had been an encouragement to me. Today she finds Read more…
You Need to Pick Your Flowers
It’s my 50th birthday today! I know I’m weird, but I celebrate it with great JOY. There just comes a time when you need to pick your flowers. This day feels like a warm, golden medal draped over the heart after a half century of difficult living – it’s finally safe to trust life Read more…
Statistically Impossible Fingerprints of God
In order to see miracles, we must slow down to notice the statistically impossible fingerprints of God. In college, I was required to take statistics classes. I loathed them then, but am grateful for them now. They gave me eyes to see the improbable. The impossible. The miracles in the everyday. On a recent college Read more…
SPRING ARISING
Change comes naturally of its own accord. Spring circles round each year, God’s reminder that life rises from fertile darkness. Beauty waits beneath the surface of things. Trust new life is on its way. And it will be beautiful. Amen.