When I was a kid, growing up in church, I heard a lot about right and wrong. The whole stereotype message of the Baptist preacher "hell fire and brimstone." Yeah, I was buried deep in that. I remember when I was eight and realized I...
I keep fighting the urge to apologize for how dreary my blog posts have been lately, but then I remind myself you come here freely and then I feel less guilty about the genuine out pour of my sad heart. Do not be mislead though...
It occurred to me the other day that no one writes their story while livingtheir story. We don't write our story while living it because we don't know the ending. It's too scary to write a story you don't know the ending to. We want...
She rises before the sun. She doesn't make coffee. She reads no newspaper. She limps to the shower...
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...
"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...
This weekend I made a decision. One that has the potential to radically change my entire life. There was a moment this past Friday where somewhere lighting struck. Lights streamed down into my grey heart. And I'm "shore" that someone, somewhere was singing and dancing...
You know that movie where girl meets boy; boy falls in love; boy chases girl; wins girl; there is a happy celebration (also sometimes known as a wedding); there is a hot, steamy, passionate, honeymoon; and then the happy couple comes home; they fight about...
