The sky ran blue and spilled into Lake Victoria’s coolness. We sailed the coolness all day in a wooden boat. Our last stop was a leper colony. We docked on its shores with a loud thud and awkwardly hopped onto land. We met old men and women, disfigured with a lost look in their eye. [...]
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I Touched a Leper
Posted in acceptance, devotional, health, travel, vulnerability, tagged leper colony, leprosy, pain is a gift on January 2, 2012 | 13 Comments »
The Joy of Brainstorming with God
Posted in acceptance, devotional, faith, Holy Spirit, prayer, vulnerability on December 11, 2011 | 8 Comments »
God and I have an understanding: we talk to each other about anything. I figure God knows what I’m thinking so I might as well pray about it, talk to Him about it. (Sometimes I don’t even have words to express what it going on inside, but that’s okay. He still listens and understands. ) [...]
We Do Grace
Posted in family, home, love, people, prayer, vision, vulnerability on September 9, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I hunched over the chalkboard, pink and blue dust covering my hands, carefully writing. We were browsing a cluttered vintage shop in Lancaster. Delmar and I both stopped and stared at a plaque against the wall. We both knew those words belong in our house. Their fate (slightly edited) was my chalkboard. I wrote the words this afternoon as [...]
the power of being known
Posted in devotional, love, vulnerability on June 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The most powerful thing in the world is that of knowing and being known completely by another person. It’s empty, draining and frustrating to come into contact with someone that doesn’t even attempt to know you, but plunges ahead with their agenda and ideas. I talked to one person like that today. She had no interest [...]
safe friends = growth
Posted in friends, vulnerability, women on April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I value relationships like never before. I see my relationships with my friends and loved ones as the most important part of life. They are priceless. It’s in the context of safe, healthy relationships that I grow in my Christian life. I can read, pray and study theology until I’m blue in the face–but until [...]
A Transformed Night
Posted in Mexico, revival, vulnerability on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thank you, Jesus: You take the late-hot-chocolate-nights with the girls and transform them with Your LOVE. As we sip hot chocolate and talk, there You are. Thank you.
rambles…
Posted in acceptance, devotional, faith, femininity, love, vulnerability on December 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Just when I think that I understand God and life, a curve ball is thrown. It smashes my world and makes me ask a lot of questions. I’m left, confused and not even sure where the ball came from. Is life always going to be like this? Yeah, I think so. Sometimes I want to [...]
The Lion’s Bite
Posted in faith, forgiveness, friends, vulnerability on December 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Things happen to people we love, and we don’t understand. It’s at these times I am most confused and angry. A fierce tearing and gashing wound comes, and we are left to watch. We wonder. We cry. We try to stop it. But, the bite still comes. I think of Narnia. The Lion bites Avaris, [...]
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