If you are anything like me, you can get so wrapped up in serving others that you forget to stop and rest. Your soul needs to be refreshed. We over look the value of rest because we are a ‘doing’ people. However when we run and run and run, burnout is around the corner. Burnout is not good for us,… Read More
everything broken can be made whole.
What’s broken in your house right now? The dryer? The front door knob? What’s broken in your heart? The rules you can’t keep? The pain you can’t mend? What’s broken in your family? A child? Your sex life? Your relationship with a parent? What’s broken at work? At church? At school? Life is broken. We all contribute to the mess… Read More
wake up and see the need in the mad, mad, mad world.
There are days I just need to write to process. It’s as if the thoughts twirling inside my head are going at such a speed it is taking my breath away. And friend, today is one of those days! There’s a voice inside me screaming “Let’s crawl back to the comfort zone and avoid this mad world.” But I know… Read More
the homeless, liberty and me.
For years I had heard the stories of Liberty…beautiful in high school; soon pregnant, married, divorced; into drugs, overdose of bad meth and at death’s door. Stories were told of this young woman-just a year or two older than one of my daughters-walking naked down the middle of the street or just wandering like a lost and wounded bird flapping… Read More
when silence is golden and beach-like.
How is your summer going? Is it as peaceful and restful as you envisioned back in May? I confess, mine has been anything but peaceful. I feel like I’m in this rushing wind and it’s not the rushing wind where God resides and whispers. It’s more of a tornado wind one would feel as two semi-trucks whip past each other…. Read More
frustrated in the in-between.
There’s this awkward place called in-between. Maybe you’re there? If you are, you know it can sometimes be a horrible place to be as you feel like you aren’t really any where. You feel stuck! You aren’t sure where you are, as you long for where you want to be. That’s where I am. I’ve spent a week preparing for… Read More