Wearing her pink and green pajama pants and an overcoat, she scuffs through the kitchen into the garage. Kicks off her fuzzy slippers and pushes her feet into dirty garden shoes; balancing one foot at a time while holding her camera inside a plastic grocery bag. “What...
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when the bluebirds go awol
We hang the bluebird feeder from the geranium hook on the porch. Fill it with yummies--crumbled suet, freeze-dried-berry-flavored mealworms (I actually scoop them with my bare hand), a few softened raisins, and a handful of blueberries. I don't know if they like...
of batteries and bluebirds
I glance out the window and gasp. "Grace, come quick! Run! Hurry!" When her lead foot lands on vinyl, I hiss at her. "Shhhh! Stop! Slow down! "G-ma's lost it now." I'm sure that's what she's thinking as the other foot freezes midair. She tiptoes to my side. We stand...
how brokenness sings
They found the lump in August. By September she was bald. The wall of her chest, I mean. Cut clean from the cancer, but also dismembered from her femininity. And the healing was long and slow. Most of the scars, they still ache, when she thinks of it all. Thinking...
to see rightly
“…it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace…” Hebrews 13:9 (ESV)...
when you are a mess and He is in love
He nibbles graham crackers on the couch, sticky crumbs and a slice of lunch...
in which i love winter
I'm a summertime gal. Bring on the sun, the heat, the sweat. Let me rock on...
when you don’t get what you deserve
I met a girlfriend for coffee in the middle of the week, snatched an hour...
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