Miracles

This Present Monster

“This morning the sun rises over the monster on the loose too, a giant hellion that’s waging war on the world, taking cities by storm, aiming for the most populated but stamping on every one in its path, wreaking its havoc on mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, on grandparents and children and stealing the most fragile, the ones who most deserve protection and care.” Read more…

Grounded – COVID 19

Our world is brought to a standstill. Fear ripples through the hearts of men and women and children like the endless reverberations of a stone tossed in a great sea. Pain and sorrow and loss grip all of us in the common bond of COVID 19.

Lives will be lost. Jobs will be lost. People will hurt and grieve and brake. Senior college students are miss their entire spring semesters, their graduations. Long awaited vacations, weddings, funerals have been canceled. Children reel from the effects of this world spinning quickly out of anything that feels familiar. Parents are working at home or even worse, not working at all. The world’s economy dangles by a thread and seems as if it can’t possibly hold on.

We wait for the monster on the lose, surely to arrive in our lives in some way any day now. Read more…

Prayerfully, A Faithful Return

Every single day, I feel a gnawing, a craving to come here to this tiny site in cyberspace, to this blank spot where words flow easily, where they tumble out tangled and tousled from that quiet, aching, yearning, hoping space inside of me and somehow become ordered linear thoughts.

It’s here where my words find their […] Read more…

But God

I joined a couple of Breast Cancer support groups yesterday. 

It was very sobering for me. I shared the type of breast cancer I have and the size of the masses.  
Call me naive, but somehow I’ve been believing that this bilateral mastectomy that is moving in on me like the tide rises on the shores […] Read more…

The Meaning of Words

Words flood my mind now, so many words, words I knew before and words I didn’t.
The old words have taken on new meaning. They hover in the forefront of my consciousness, in that elusive place inside myself where feelings run rampant like unrestrained children, heightening my awareness of all of life, the good bits and […] Read more…

EFOs

“Who is Jesus?” She types in the translator only two weeks home from China. 
Her brand new daddy looks at me with eyes open wide, big and filled with the endless blue of the sea. For this moment we’ve prayed. He types into the computer screen, “He is the Son of God.”

My heart pauses, gallops in […] Read more…

Little Girl Lost – Monday Musings

As I’ve reflected this week on what miracle I would share with you today, I decided to travel back to my childhood and share another moment when God miraculously changed the course of my life.
My mind drifts back to the child that I was.

Sometimes, in that tiny space between consciousness and sleep, I can even […] Read more…

Monday Musings, Part II

“When we’d been home from China for about two and half years, a deep weariness began to fill our family. The needs of our children consumed us, and new needs seemed to develop at every turn. We began to wonder how to meet all the needs and to doubt that we had even done the right thing in abandoning the wisdom of this world and stepping out in faith, actually stepping off the cliff, to adopt the girls. We were overwhelmed with our inadequacies.” Read more…

He Knows Our Needs

There are moments in my life when I have pressed on in faith and walked through the deepest valleys one can know.

Then there are moments when the very hand of God has reached down to me and intervened in this natural world, when He has miraculously changed the course of my life at times in […] Read more…

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