writing when inspired about the often overlooked
I go for walk, looking for beauty on a dreary cloudy day in a strange neighborhood while on a girlfriends weekend at a hotel. By the time I wind around the hotel, to the back corner of the parking lot, I have all but given up. “Lord,” I say,” there doesn’t seem to be any…
I didn’t set out to post advent reflections this year. I haven’t been following any Advent guide. I have been listening to the sermons each Sunday and paying attention to what God might have for me during this time time of Advent and the celebration of the coming King. This view outside my living room…
It’s the first thing I notice as I walk up to my favorite place at the lake this morning – a brown leaf floating in the water. (The fact I am even out here this morning is a big deal. I’d rather stay up late and sleep in. Yet the rest of my world doesn’t…
If you were walking Miami Beach along about 72nd and Collins Avenue last week, you just might have seen someone that looked a lot like me, sitting at the ocean, texting and thought, “Now isn’t that crazy – an ocean to see and she’s texting.†Before you render final judgement, about me texting at the…
May the Light of Your Son pierce through the fog that forms for me and for those I love. ******* Linking this week with Kelli Woodword and Unforced Rhythms Lisha Epperson and Give Me Grace Community
“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10 Sometimes my soul needs to sit quietly. absorbing the sounds of rippling water, having prayer requests no agenda. I have been eyeing this quiet nook a couple times a week, all summer long. Often I have considered how I might get back in there, sit…
There it was, right in front of me. exquisite beauty in the waning daylight still water and brilliant yellow lilies And all I could think of were the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:28 & 29 “Consider: the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil or spin, yet I tell you, even…
James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. I love the view up here from the bedroom-turned-office. Well, office seeems too officious for how my days go now since I retired and Dad came to live with…
We just returned from two weeks in Florida, watching the early morning sunrises off the Atlantic Coast. March of 2008, we also spent time on the Gulf coast of Florida and experienced the evening sunset each day. Oh God, Nothing says “rejoice†like a glorious sunrise and peaceful sunset. And it all “happens†by Your…
I notice the deep footprints in wet sand And how fast they disappear A few waves . . . And all evidence is gone. And I wonder . . . Did they really exist if I can’t see them now? But I know they were there I have pictures taken on a beach on March…