He is their strength in the time of trouble. Psalm 37:39** When I am not, You are. Where I fail, You perfect. I teeter and You stand, bold, strong. I fold, crumple and weep when poked and prodded by life’s mishaps — and You scoop me up and sing over me....
“For our God is a consuming fire” Hebrews 12:29. It quietly tugged at me from where I’d scribbled it in my moleskine journal as I re-directed her vegetable-peeling strokes in the direction away from my Bible, already stained cucumber green. This...
The scene was familiar, only slightly more intense than the last time. As our house becomes her home, what’s buried down deep begins to find its way to the surface. Pain has a buoyancy. When I came upstairs he’d been holding her for nearly an hour, my...
She shared my kitchen space with her monogrammed apron which, already, was too small for the body she’d grown up and out of months ago. This moment reflected her heart. She cut lettuce and stirred sauce and mimicked what she’d seen me do. She’d...
As my husband says, I’m not the “bloggiest” of bloggers. With hearts-needing-tending under our roof, with 15+ years of combined fatherlessness to work through … as well as the many years of my own living like I had no Father, I’ve...
