To Mend a Broken Heart

Flowers help, cut or wild blooms of vibrant hue, also time rolled out in long stretches like bolts of cloth. Air is essential, as well as stories that name in some way the sharp corners of your pain. You will want to lay down on the floor, to feel something solid...

To Love What is Passing

I watch the sunrise each morning.  Reading, writing, I pause to turn toward the window.  At first all is black, night’s heavy velvet stretched.  With every glance the scene changes, like clicking through slides in a view finder.  Fog shifts, blue...

Panic Attacks and Unexpected Grace

  I’m sitting on the couch when it comes, cycling through my usual websites with a growing sense of dread.  I feel frozen, unable to move on to something else even though I know I need to.  A wave of heat washes over my body, rising up my back, my neck,...

Even More Undignified (a Poem and a Playdate)

What is serious to men is often trivial in the sight of God. What in God might appear to us as “play” is perhaps what He Himself takes most seriously. At any rate, the Lord plays and diverts himself in the garden of His creation, and if we could let go of...

Playdates With God (Book Review)

Laura Boggess’ weekly link-up, Playdates With God was one of the first I discovered when I started blogging back in 2012.  Since then I’ve been a devoted follower of both her writing and her community.  I’m very excited to share with you...
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