How to Cope When Life Interrupts Your Happy Dance
The atmosphere is threaded with tense excitement, Chatter bounces and vibrates, My heart races. And then as the shaggy buffalo mascot beats the center court drum to amp up the crowd [Read more...]
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The Street Vendor: Radiating Joy
It was a rag-tag mushroom with a spindly stem on three wheels. The once canvas umbrella covered with plastic tarps, hovered above the ancient bicycle, protecting the tiny man and his basket of [Read more...]
Pride: How to Keep From Falling Into That Pit
So regal, Such posture A monument of colossal proportions, So unintentionally hilarious. Nestled in the heart of the city, the cool shade of the plaza gave us relief in a mid eighties day. [Read more...]
Weathering the Ice Storms of Life: It’s All About the Giving
Oh but the trees… Our beautiful trees. Full of colorful leaves, wondrous to behold, but lethal to a limb when covered with layer upon layer of ice. Those red and yellow leaves we so loved, [Read more...]
One Day at a Time: How to Be Thankful in Our Brokenness
Thankful, Thankful, Thankful I say it over again and again in my head, trying to focus on those words, those blessings. Yet the longer I live, the more pain I see in a fallen world and [Read more...]
Treasure Hunt: Where Is Yours Stored?
Lightning flashes illuminate their fear. The winds howl like a frenzied beast as the angry sky releases torrents into the churning deep. One single dreaded word shouted from the [Read more...]
In The Demand For Perfection Are we Missing True Beauty? ((Rwanda #13)
From the third floor of the high rise, ringed by sister skyscrapers, all seems modern and prosperous in this emerging African city. The reflections of sky gives a beautiful blue tint to the structures [Read more...]
Christmas Truth: The Haves vs The Have Nots
He seemed to appear out of nowhere. The icy wind whipped his long straggly hair, as he hesitated beside our car. His glance held a question: should he pass by or wait? Since the light was red, The [Read more...]
Thanksgiving Week Challenge
Write three things you are thankful for—EVERY DAY for the next week. By the week’s end you will have 21 blessings listed to meditate on in the frenzied coming weeks. Comment, Facebook me, or email me [Read more...]