This isn’t our dog, but you get the idea, right? Photo Source. Be still, and know that I am God . . . Psalm 46:10 She’s nestled at my side right now, sleeping with great, heavy sighs, her long legs tucked and curled in a fetal position. I’m still...
I love this image of Christ in the Wilderness gathering Wild Flowers painted by Stanley Spencer. I decided last weekend that I would try to write 500 words, five days a week for the month of March. And I nearly did this past week. But still, I came...
“What this place needs is a box full of kittens.” This is what I told my fellow patients, my therapist, and anyone else who would listen in the psychiatric hospital this summer. I wasn’t really kidding. My kids were spending a good bit of time at a...
. . . we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the winds and join in the general dance. – Thomas Merton in New Seeds of Contemplation The twins perched on the back of the couch banging on the window with a screw driver and...
It sat alone, across the muddy tractor tracks, next to the stinking porta-potties in a wide and muddy pit. Enjoying the wagon ride out to the fields, the hacksaw in hand and children all around, my husband and I hardly noticed the wide plastic sign,...
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