Beyond the Imagination

known and not alone known and not alone He has more thoughts of me, of us, than anyone. Not only does he think of me more than anyone else, he thinks thoughts and plans plans that are beyond my imagination. Putting hope in something or someone else will lead to great...

Removing the Grit

He comes in with tools of various kinds. The tools don’t look like the usual types, but they do a similar sort of work as a carpenter or sculptor. Work begins on the project. Parts are cut off, sections are chiseled. Gradually, a form begins to take shape. If...

what makes a story good

It’s the part of my story I’ve often wished didn’t exist. It’s the part of another’s story I’ve often wondered about. It’s that part of our stories that most of us, at some time or another, would want to wish away. A story has...

Yet ~ Still ~ Despite

They are young and the time is short. If I turn around they’ll be gone and the grandmothers say it goes by like that. But some days, it takes an external force pushing me, propelling me. Even with a fierce mama’s heart and love, there are days when I am...

Can You Claim it?

5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in...

drops of red

between the eyes they put the red a dot millions of dots centered on millions of heads a drop a billion drops spilled for a billion heads by One who came as blood-dripping vine supplying life to grafted branches whose vein still bleeds, pulses, offers drops of life...