Sometimes ordinary moms turns into mama-bears. Just threaten our children and watch us craze. On the upper doorposts of the rooms that hold our family, or that held our family before kids grew up and left, yet still hold one more kid, there are mama-bear tracks....
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Music
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Life of Worship
Practice
and the beat goes on
We sit in a parking lot near the lumber yard while the car shakes with my sobs. “Are you going to be okay?” he asks. “Do you want to go home?” Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so sensitive. I wish I could separate God pleasing from people pleasing. I wish I didn’t feel...
for when the way grows weary
It’s only a one-mile loop, this Dry Marsh Trail. I can handle that, even in this heat. It’s an easy hike, though, and it’s good to be away and outside, just the two of us. I lag behind, stopping to take pictures of this and that. He waits for me to catch up, reads out...
complete in Him
She stands on the thin, white carpet, anxiously waiting to salute the judges and begin a routine she has undoubtedly practiced well over a thousand times. She seems stiff, a fleshly statue under an enormous amount of stress and I find myself hoping she won't crumble...
reflections from a waiting room
Her name tag reads “Colleen.” She wears blue scrubs, and the...
the silence and the tears
I’ve long been impressed by the power of the shortest verse in the Bible....
got manna?
God has some wild imagination. Just picture those hapless Israelites, out...
why you should meditate
The streetlamp outside the bedroom window casts a gentle glow about the room...
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