I'm in a snit from the moment little feet hit the stairs and find me at my desk. Irritation flares up the back of my neck and I'm longing for a cave to disappear into. For no obvious reason, I'm irritable, and the clashing of their small annoyances, with my...
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Music
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Life of Worship
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is it enough?
Sophonie, she scratches words on peach-colored concrete with a sliver of yellow chalk. She points to them and then to herself. "God. Me. Father. Mother." I brim and pull her close. "Yes. God. He's your father and your mother." And He's enough. Jeffrey's fifteen, he...
ready or not
I've had months to get ready. But I'm not ready. I google "animals in Haiti," "birds in Haiti," "snakes in Haiti." and "Haitian culture." I immerse myself in Flickr'ed blue and red and green and pink gingerbread architecture and cough from dust rising in YouTube...
does gratitude drip from your lips?
All moments funnel into one, swirl faster in eye-blurring fury and collide, shatter in slow motion. Metal against metal. I see the bike spin and slide across the concrete. D slams the car to a stop in the middle of the road and leaps out. I freeze in my seat,...
in the tiptoe moments
I see the point of a soft pink triangle that cuts between two pine trees to...
when election day looms
In you, Lord my God, I put my trust. ~Psalm 25:1 (NIV) We stopped at a dingy...
when the storm comes
The moon drops into the west like a giant grapefruit this morning, while the...
for when your creativity wanes
He tells us beside the Frio's flow, in his talk on The Care and Feeding of...
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