In the middle of our earthly Christmas homegoing to visit parental home and family, my spiritual growth feels like a Band-aid over the gaping wound of my sinful nature and my brokenness. Feeling like a fragile fraud, a barely …
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Perhaps your Great-Grandma is crazy. If not her, maybe it’s your sister-in-law, your uncle, or your Dad. Holidays bring out the craziness. The stories are legendary. Everyone tiptoes around Grandma, trying not to set her off, whispering about her eccentricities, fixing …
Continue Reading →Today I reached tears again in this publishing journey. For a person who idolizes task completion, this industry is a bear! I write for many varied venues and in several diverse genres. Each segment of the publishing world has dissimilar …
Continue Reading →This morning concern for my country, my economic prospects, the future welfare of my children and grandchildren, and my eroding religious liberties propelled me from my bed in the pitch-black predawn. Anxiety gnawed at my stomach. Hopeless permeated my considerations. …
Continue Reading →Providing a radiant illustration of our future glory, my dear friend, swathed all in white, floated down the aisle toward her overcome bridegroom. Smiling as hard as a man could smile, he eagerly awaited her arrival, his smile leaking out …
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Some of us go through horrendous experiences: abuse, sexual assault, drug usage, unfaithfulness of a spouse. Perhaps we chose a road we knew was wrong, thus searing our own consciences. For those of us who stagger away from such tragedies, …
Continue Reading →Recently I was privileged to walk among the untouched old-growth coastal redwood forest in Muir Woods, a natural habitat in northern California near the Pacific Ocean. Having grown up on the prairie, where trees are few, stunted, and far between, …
Continue Reading →Naively, I had assumed my five-day vacation would repair four months of overworking. I jetted off to California for relaxation with my dear little sister, supposing I’d return all in one piece again. I now laugh at my assumption. Silly …
Continue Reading →Free, unfettered, skimming the night sky, the moon smiles down on me as it makes its stealthy escape, heading west. Tomorrow I, too, shall set sail, clad in clouds, freed from earth’s bonds, brightly beaming, winging toward oceans unseen. I …
Continue Reading →The day started at 5:20 a.m. after ending at nearly 11:30 p.m. the night before. This had happened several days in a row. But today was different. On this day I was undertaking an entire seminary course in one day, …
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