My firstborn is living his first year in college and I am so proud of him, but being a parent feels complicated to me right now. I feel like our relationship is lacking in all the ways I begged God it wouldn't . I used to pray regularly for God to make me the mother this child needs me to be. It may be time to trust the process, trust the prayer and trust the God who hears me.
The smoke and fire is not the end, it is the beginning. Not ruin but hope, not his absence but his presence.
I wonder if each and every one of us has a version of a burka in life? The thing that we put on before going outside that keeps us hidden and obscure from the world. I saw a woman today getting out of the passenger side of a small SUV. She had on a burka-like … Continue reading My Burka
Dear friend, Send someone you are thinking about a card. It doesn’t have to be complicated, keep it simple and send it out. There are ways other than screens to keep in touch with the people who mean a lot to us. God was the very first Writer and he sent words to man from … Continue reading Send Some love
Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com If God is all powerful and all good why does he allow people to suffer? Pain and suffering doesn’t prove there is no God or that God is not powerful and good, it only proves that God allows painful things to happen. The question here is what is good? God the … Continue reading What is Good?
Why are we still taking extreme precautions for a virus that we know 90% of the population is recovering from? In a utopian society people would manage the world "perfectly". We don’t live in Utopia. At the end of every nonfictional day we go to bed flawed, imperfect and broken individuals. Humanity is capable of … Continue reading Live Free or Die
"Each person must live their life as a model for others" -Rosa parks "I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...so other people would be also free." - Rosa parks "I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and … Continue reading Rosa Parks
For children the world can be a place of adventure or a place of fear and uncertainty, and most often a little of both.
After a hard rain, the world around me seems greener, healthier, newer somehow. The most delicate spiderweb intact, the tiniest tomato plant upright, flower stems unbroken, leaves unfallen. , how does life hang on after such heaviness? I don't know. But it does, birds nests remain nestled loosely in tall branches without nails or glue. … Continue reading Clothe Me in Eternity
My Faith Place 