At the words, “Want to go for a ride?” I leap at the chance to fuel my love of fast. Confession— the number of speeding tickets/warnings I’ve accumulated over the years just might need two hands to be [Read more...]
The holidays make loss sharper. The blade twists as the seats at the Thanksgiving table shrink. The head of the table sits empty and the end is graced by the preacher as he alone presides over dinner. [Read more...]
I’m obsessed. The virus vernacular litters my speech. It’s embedded in my thoughts. It haunts my actions as I click and scroll and watch. I lecture my parents about isolating because [Read more...]
And now the funerals begin. I can’t believe ten kids are dead. Again. Mowed down by a troubled peer. Again. And to think I was all set to blog about the royal wedding… maybe later for [Read more...]
Would you want to know when you were going to die? The date. The time. The place. The how? I fear with a deadline of my mortality looming I would begin a panicked list, beanstalk high, of what I [Read more...]
But answers are often not so quick. Or at least answered so I can see them. So when it comes down to my own prayer walk, I can stay connected to God's tubes of life-giving air…or not. I really have [Read more...]
The words were barely legible. The hurried scrawl across the back of an envelope are the only clue. A hint at a past of sorrow. My history more than a century ago. Was there evil intent? Was harm [Read more...]
The dream is shattered The path hazy The end uncertain. And I am wrecked. How to go forward when retreat seems the balm, How to take one step when I’m laid [Read more...]
Soaring ceilings formed an intricately carved symphony of design over my head. Gothic arches securely held together with flying buttresses. The days and years artisans spent carving, [Read more...]