Hope for Heavy Days
A year ago, each day was a step into the unknown. Life ...felt out of control. Our perspective about the future was bleak. Maybe that sounds familiar.
Hope Posts
Exploring Lament
Reflections on Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness;...
The Kaleidoscope of Illness Twisting into Full Focus
TWISTING INTO FOCUS Chronic illness entered my life slowly. Each new illness – one more geometric shape twisted into the kaleidoscope lens of my life and was hardly noticed. It all seemed almost “normal” somehow. As a child, three colored...
Your Disaster Zone Is God’s Construction Zone
y Bringing Life and a Bit of Peace Last year my family visited the National September 11 Memorial in New York City. It’s a solemn work of art, bringing life and a bit of peace to a place of death and destruction. As my family and I paused...
A Gift in 46 Words
She couldn’t have known what a gift it was to see those words slide silently across my screen. “… I saw and my stomach dropped.” My friend saw and noticed, and sent me four sentences. Forty-six words. All gift. “And you live with this every...
