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This is for those moms.  Moms like I used to be.  The ones who not so much in the day to day, but in the looking back, struggle the most, pick apart the most, question the most, play the “What if” game the most.  This is for you if you ever looked back and feltContinue reading “This is for…”

I have learned over the past few years that I enjoy going deep into favorite songs.  Digging into the words and allowing them to shine forth with meaning that I can take in and seek to apply as I walk through life with Jesus, and that I can write about to share with others. IContinue reading “Be Thou My Vision”

In our current culture with so much extra stuff and so many choices and so many ways to connect without connecting… with so much stress and anxiety, with rampant busyness like a completely unproductive hamster running on his wheel, comes a CRISIS in all caps, unprecedented, unseen until its actions made it SEEN and aggressivelyContinue reading “Hold On…”

You. Are. Here.   October 19, 2019.  Yep, here I am.  Rockin’ my routine and working within the cozy confines of my comfort zone. I am not an adventurous person.  I have a deep appreciation for structure and the beauty of things remaining the same. Uniformity. Straight Lines. Symmetry. I’ve got everything lined up inContinue reading “HERE”

A temper tantrum.Typically used to describe what tends to happen when a toddler aged child doesn’t get what he / she wants. It’s a part of being a parent to watch your toddler try out his or her independence as you continually work to guide the child in the testing of his or her boundaries.Continue reading “The Glorious Experiencing”

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day A human, broken, and messy perspective is met with a battle for faith in the mighty works of God that are unseen yet supremely powerful and ultimately victorious. An unlikely scenario for a Christmas song. Based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, this song was written atContinue reading “Inside a Christmas Song”

Curled up inside myself. No, that’s not right. The truth is that I’m not inside myself, but I wish I could be. Instead, it’s more like I’m bent down and around and around in a very unusual depiction of a ball. Sure, it’s cramped and very dark, but at the same time it’s the sourceContinue reading “Broken toward whole”

Don’t know, don’t care. Liar. OK, here’s the truth: Don’t know, do care. There is so much. The lack of so much in the life of one I love more than anything. Care more than the person who should care. Don’t know, do care. Don’t know, but yearn to know, long to know. If IContinue reading “Introspect”

Images…So many images. So many people. So many men and women and children depicted in the worst nightmares they never dreamed but have been forced to live. And then there are the images seared in my heart of so many brave and compassionate men and women who risked their lives and worked many hours withContinue reading “Harvey and Beyond”

Regroup, redirect, refocus, re-visualize. Reframe. This thing. It happens. That means the journey is headed this way. I frame the horizon and take my brush and paint the rest of the path beyond the reaches of my vision. This is how it is, this is what will be. But then, that thing. It happens. ItContinue reading “And…Again.”