When Optimism Collides With Reality

When Optimism Collides With Reality

Autumn’s dim morning light shrouded the room in a blanket of calm as I greeted the Father. “Lord, what work do you have for me today? How can I be like Jesus in someone’s life?” The words hung in the hush of a home not yet interrupted by the rush of bodies...
Set Free

Set Free

Though pain settles In my bones for the body keeps the score, My spirit calls to you at night, this ache I can endure.   Lord, you once wore raw stripes from man’s abuse. But crying out you set me free, saved from sin’s refuse.   I look to you for relief,...
Six Reasons We Can Rejoice in the Lord

Six Reasons We Can Rejoice in the Lord

I’ve become a news grazer. I glance at the headlines, but words like virus, revenge, and murder flood the screen. A click of the mouse and I am transported to hopelessness. And isn’t that what the Enemy would like for me to see? Feel? Believe? But I know better. You...
Dancing With Jesus

Dancing With Jesus

  Grandpa smelled of comfort; the rich, warm scents of coffee and Aqua Velva. Quiet and witty, his brown eyes glinted when I’d beg him to play. Just one more time, pleeease. We’d construct palaces of red, yellow, and blue rectangles or clutch our...
Brokenness is Not God’s Plan

Brokenness is Not God’s Plan

Just a few years ago, fear and depression nearly took him from me. Threatened to steal the world of his mischievous smile, the one that tilts the right corner of his mouth like the crescent moon on its axis. But, as I rejoice over his presence and delight in the...