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“…it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace…” Hebrews 13:9 (ESV) It’s barely light outside when we meet in the small dark room just outside the locked doors that lead to the hospital’s mental ward. Dressed in our student uniforms, from polished white shoes...
He nibbles graham crackers on the couch, sticky crumbs and a slice of lunch meat cut into “pizza shapes” because that’s the only way he’ll eat it. Five hairs stick straight at his crown and there is dirty black beneath his fingernails. Frayed socks, chapped lips, a...
I'm a summertime gal. Bring on the sun, the heat, the sweat. Let me rock on the porch with a glass of iced tea, sporting a pair of shorts and my Tigers T-shirt, inhaling the scent of petunias. Or give me springtime, air heavy with the fragrance of lilacs, pregnant...
I met a girlfriend for coffee in the middle of the week, snatched an hour before afternoon carpool to catch up. And we had a lot of it, catching up. A wedding, two teenage car accidents between us, and leaving the church where we met since the last time we talked. It...
Saturday I snapped pictures of the Grand River out the corner windows of our...
The week leading up to Christmas took an unexpected turn around here. My heart...
I'm nestled under white down beneath slanted ceiling. I got the message...
You know what today is, right? Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. A day we remember...
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