If I Had THIS, My Life Would be Complete

I pulled the sliding glass door shut behind me and walked barefoot across my mother-in-law’s back porch. I sat on the big porch swing. Sigh… a slice of solitude and quiet in a summer of travel and transition. I pulled out Amber Haine’s Wild in the Hollow, ready to escape into someone else’s story. But […]

In Every Season, Just Be Loved

God most often speaks to me in images. I love to write, and I have found a profound beauty in sharing this passion with my Maker. While I write on pages, He writes on the facets of time and space, on the tablets of our hearts, and on the expanse of human history. He is […]

Tangled Webs

Oh what tangled webs we weave when we agree to go overseas. I’ve never seen a spider weave it’s web, maybe that’s the stuff of science labs where people are paid to study the creative science that is nature. Is it made in an orderly way? Is it made in the same way every single […]

How to Feed a Starving Soul

That rumble in your stomach as the clock strikes noon and you skipped breakfast. The way your busyness can only go on for so long before you collapse from burn out. All the ways we feel our lack on a daily basis are meant to stir something in us deep. On the morning of her […]

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