“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too...
On my way home tonight I decided that I was going to tell you about my strong feelings about the extreme states we live in. (You like that...
Why sometimes I wish that I wasn't labelled a "Christian" ...
I haven't written in two weeks. I have sat down many times to do so...
What if you're not alone? What if you're understood? What if you're watched over? What if you're protected? What if you're loved? What if that love has no conditions? What if you have to do nothing to be accepted? What if you're special? What if you're beautiful? What if beauty is inscribed on your...
The other night I posted a picture of my tear-stained face on Instagram. (Ok...
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...
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...
I don't want to forget this feeling. I don't want to forget this moment where all my nerve ending feel as if they are exposed. My body turned inside out. Just a close brush to the skin might be too much. It might make me pull back in reaction...
