There’s a hush and stillness that comes with snow, especially in our lacking-snow-readiness corner of North Texas. It’s somehow a novelty to us: streets empty, covered in a scrim of white, as yet undisturbed by the tracks of the intrepid. Early morning silence rests deeper than usual, and my lessons of stillness and “wintering” gleaned over the past months rouse […]
Normal (and the dangers thereof)
Normal. What a lovely word. Such a reassuring, comforting idea, the everyday and commonplace. The expected. But seeing something as normal can be dangerous. It is dangerous, for example, for me to see my life as normal when it is anything but. As I wrote last week, I’m six months into my new “normal” life, healed completely and miraculously from […]
Healing: Six Months In
It snuck up on me, took me by surprise yesterday. I looked at my calendar and realized it was July 9th. Six months. Half a year. 26 weeks have slid by since God did what doctors said was “impossible,” healed my fibromyalgia. In the space of a heartbeat, in the moment of a prayer, God lifted my chronic pain and […]
God’s changes in God’s time
“I consciously slowed my breathing, sweat slipping down my cheek as I stretched my sizzling muscles. I smiled tiredly to myself, a feeling of accomplishment washing over me as I finished the day’s workout- a tough cardio routine with some upper and lower body thrown in for good measure. It had been a full day of teaching: on my feet, […]
Remember, Prepare, Hope: Some Christmas thoughts
I love this season. Love. For so many reasons. I always have. In recent years I’ve come to realize more and more that it serves as an anchor to the year. It calls me back to years past unlike most of the rest of the year. Who waxes nostalgic about March 9th? Ah, honey, do you remember that March 9th […]
Attack at Eagle Mountain Lake (and other bedtime stories)
Seven of us. Seven women alone at a remote lake house outside Fort Worth. We seven who had carved out time for a girls’ weekend, we seven who had journeyed together through a year of intensive Bible study and transparent life-sharing, we seven who had paused for a few chilly November days to laugh together, talk, eat, walk, and refresh […]
Airports and Hearing God’s Voice
Somehow summer is at a close. I go back to teaching tomorrow. My girl went back to California last week for college. And all summer I meant to share this. And all summer I shared other things, though mostly not in writing. Though months later than I planned, here’s a moment I captured at the beginning of my summer. I […]
Construction Zone: What are You Building?
Overwhelmed. That’s how I felt the entire time we were in Italy last fall. Though we returned home months ago, I just now sit down and put to words some of my experiences and what God whispered to me. Growing up in the US, especially in California, we have no concept of old. Our country, our civilization is brand new […]
New Eyes
My dear friend was working hard to set up a new blog a few months back and she just downloaded her WordPress Theme. She texted me the link so I could take a look to make sure it was ok. And then texted me a picture of what stared back at her from her monitor. She was seeing a black […]
The Gift
I sit here staring at my laptop screen, stuck in what I want to say and unsure how to even start. I fight against this, oh how I fight, matted down again with the assumption that I don’t have any businesses doing this whole writing thing, that I don’t have anything of substance to say, that my blog is just […]