Yesterday I was 30 minutes late to my folks house because I stopped to buy food for a man I saw at the side of the highway holding a sign that read “Hungry. Please help. Psalm 41:1”. [Read more…]
Our Faltering Hearts – Ambivalence – Living Life in the Gray
Have you ever noticed that life is rather foggy?
We can feel sad and happy at the same time, or excited and scared to death. Contrary feelings coexist in my mind and confuse me. [Read more…]
When My Foot is in My Mouth – Shame Fills My Heart
**This is a short and sweet one – a prayer for grace.
Open mouth wide. Insert foot. Swallow.
Foot in mouth disease. I’ve got it. And, I don’t want it.
And, I did it again. Said the wrong thing – at the wrong time -to the wrong person. Oops!
Somehow, oops just doesn’t cover it. [Read more…]
Four Things I’m Learning about Myself in My Here & Now Spaces
I feel like I’m in a middle season of life and it hasn’t been what I’d expected.
I would have guessed this season would be like a quiet, still pond and I’d see myself clearly as I stared into the water’s reflections. Instead, I’ve felt like I am standing barefoot at the water’s edge with a rugged tide rolling in, causing the sand to shift and pull out from underneath me. Not. What. I. Expected.
C.S. Lewis say it best for me….‘Courage, dear heart’.
Learning requires great frustration. So, I guess I’m frustrated. Or learning. Or, just confused. [Read more…]
What Do You Long for More of?
‘More‘. What Do You Long for More of?
I’m a happy – well, correction – I’m an ecstatic grandmother of two. When you become a grandmother you find yourself not only with a new role, but, also needing a new name.
Will you be ‘nana’, ‘grammy’, ‘grandma’, ‘mimi’, or ‘gran’?
I never thought about requiring a new name until sitting with my grandson in my lap, and wanting to call myself something to alert him to my special role in his life. My relationship needed naming and I wanted it to be good. [Read more…]
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