“…Whither thou goest, I will go…” Ruth 1:16-17 As I have passed the forty year mark of marriage, I have been thinking much on life; reflecting on what exactly has happened over the past forty years, as I have traveled the road of ‘being married’. From the outside, looking into people’s lives, through day to …
Category Archives: Beginnings
Word Smithing
“The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable…” Proverbs 15:2 The crazy thing about processing life with words, is that those words continually parade through your mind in an endless display of options. Each event, each object, each occurrence plays out in songs and poems. Funny stories flow out of tragic circumstances and judgement and …
Smiling Eyes
There is something to be said about the communication of the eyes. The smile in one’s eyes has the power to encourage and lift one up to the heights. This last several years of wearing masks everywhere we go has certainly confirmed that. With faces covered, we have come to rely on the eyes to …
Enlarged
It was just days before my mama left this earth. I was alone in the art studio. I was frantically moving out debris and old things saved for years in an effort to be busy with my anxious thoughts… What am I doing? How can I be doing this when my mother is dying? How …
Fort Building in the Valley
When I was a kid, I loved to build forts. My brothers and I spent most of our time outdoors, constructing stuff. We lived in our tree in the front yard. We dug tunnels. We used sheets and blankets to make elaborate houses. When my dad cut the grass, I would use the grass clippings …
I Can’t
“Can’t never did anything until he tried.” Those words ring through my head. Usually on the tail of some episode in my life of complaining, bitter crying. My mother recited that overused saying to me on many an occasion. I must have been a whiny child in the face of difficulty. Oh, the burdens of …
Eyes To Behold Wonder
“In My Father’s House are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.” – John 14:2-6 His extravagant love poured out on all of us. It fairly drowns us with living water; quenching thirst, feeding hunger, dressing wounds, healing our blindness. …
On The Verge
I feel like so many things are on the edge. We are on the verge of…something monumental. We are high above years of the unknown and the unexpected, looking down over a world of possibility! Opening up before us are choices and plans and decisions to be made. We are not alone in all of …
This Time of Year
It’s December. I get busier in my head in December. I make more plans. I spend more money. I bake more. I visit more. I get overwhelmed more. I realize my need more. In December. The celebrations of a year, good or bad, are had. The celebrations of lives and of bounty are had. Reminiscence …
this winged journey
I write out of the day. the emotions, the thoughts, the convictions, the . moments, the mess, the glory. All of it comes to the surface and tumbles out in poetry and pain. The words rush forth and establish themselves in black and white. The passion and the raw truth is a bit much at …