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Whatever It Takes
I’ve become a late-night person…through no design of my own. I desperately need more hours in the day…more days in the week…and more sleep in my bed. Last night as I lay my head down on my crazy configuration of multiple fluffy pillows, I began to pray for friends and family, for my children and…
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In the Middle of the Night
It is the middle of the night and I’m awake. Wide awake. Yesterday I stayed home from work because I’ve been fighting a wicked cold or flu thing and I slept most of the day. I was actually thinking I might be well-rested for the next day. No such luck. Part of the problem is…
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Love, Rest, and Sickness…In No Particular Order
Today is my first sick day for me in a few years. I’ve done sick days for children and sick days for parents, but not for me. I slept a lot and sat a lot…well, actually I was more lying down a lot. And all the stillness…it was glorious. I haven’t been still for….for forever.…
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A Deep Breath
There is a place I find myself…sometimes…it is no longer a place of deep grief, but of deep sighing. A place where I find myself needing the strengthing of a deep breath, the focus of a whispered prayer, and the hope of an all-powerful God. In the past, this place has been about me…about my…
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Trusting Him with Them
I’m sitting outside on my back porch with my laptop, my Bible, and 3000 MOSQUITOES!!!! It is so beautiful out here – cool breeze, sunny, and quiet! I love it. But I HATE these mosquitoes! They have even bitten my hands! It is very difficult to scratch my fingers and type. My 14 year old…
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Changing Me
What if something could change so that I wasn’t so very overwhelmed? What would it be? I’m not talking about the things that would make life easier like not having to work, having a nanny and a cook, or receiving a ton of money. I’m talking about the realistic things. The things that could actually…
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Words in my Head
It’s 1:17 am and I absolutely should take off my reading glasses, close my laptop, slide under my flower-covered comforter and place my head securely on my soft pillows, but I just can’t right now. Because I want to write now. I want to write something profound and moving and well-written. The other day I…
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A Moment of Still
A long wooden farm table, enough to seat a quiverful and some friends, tea in the cup my oldest daughter chose for me while at the beach with friends, a highlighted, underlined and well-loved Bible open before me, and quiet…my perfect morning. God has blessed me this morning with this beautiful moment of still. A…
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Wanna Stop Swerving?
It’s a bit earlier than I planned to get up, but up I am. Thanks to one pain in the rear Labrador Retriever….and, I think, thanks to the Lord. As I lay on the sofa trying to get my mind to stop moving so I could fall back to sleep, I decided maybe this was…
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