Love at First Sight (a poem)

(Here I am around age 5 with two of my first kittens.  It was always love at first sight.) Instinct led her to lift the small mewing creature with pin-prick paws to her chest, pressing it close to where her own heart beat.  And instinct bade the poor kitten...

Steadfast Love (#SmallWonder)

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:22 The field, the road, the driveway were covered when I crept down the stairs in early morning dark. ...

Pause

  This morning the world was cloaked, white on white, as snow fell and the mountains shied behind a sheet of fog.  The cornfield  stretched between, like a wide sheet of paper, empty.  Lighting the fire, I feel the way these two days between...

Come Rest With Me

 The cornfield across the street preparing for its winter nap. The only way I can get my three year old twins to nap is by joining them.   It started last week, the day after a horrid night of fevers and chills that kept the littlest one and me up until...

When Speaking Life Requires Silence

I met Kimberly Ann Coyle though an online (in) courage discussion group for writers.  She and a host of other writers are in the long haul of blogging for 31 days straight through the month of October.  Every blogger chooses a topic of focus and digs...
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