The Invitation by Oriah It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dreamof meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are.I want to know if you will risk looking like a foolfor love for your...
I've been writing about pain a lot lately. It's not that pain is all I have to talk about. I have been intentional about watching sunsets, noticing the phases of the moon, and how brightly the stars shine as the night gets darker. I have...
When I was eighteen I was in a major car accident. My first weekend of college, I was heading back to campus and I happened to hydroplane and then flip my car on an Atlanta interstate. For a few seconds, my life slowed to a...
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." {Henry James} When I was a youngster, I was intrigued by light bulbs. In the same way that I was unable to stop staring...
A friend sent me an excerpt from Naomi Zacharias's book, "The Scent of Water," a few days ago. In it she discusses the reality of fairy tales and how we are so quick to focus on the happy ending that we miss the struggle the protagonists...
There is a song by Laura Story called "Blessings" that I have not been able to get out of my head for days now. In the past, I have been of the opinion that it is one of those cheesy, Christian songs that are simply...
So it seems it is August already. Half of the year has already slipped through our fingertips; a multitude of moments forgotten or not, completely irretrievable. I can hardly believe it. I am just curious...
In 6th grade, Tony Moore called me fat. I was a good two feet taller than him with hips as wide as his shoulders. I was an inch away from being the same height I am today -- a good 5'8''. Average for a young adult...
"So bear with people that their unpleasantness and maliciousness and cruelty will never drive us to bitterness, that their unteachableness will never drive us to despair, that their folly will never drive us to irritation and that their unloveliness will never alter our love."*The world...
Tomorrow is the celebration of an event that -- like so many others -- has been dwindled down to pastel colors, spring fever, colored eggs, furry, cute field animals, and the second (only to Halloween) highest candy selling holiday of the year. But it is truly...
