Mandy Kelly – A Tribute The Blogging world is in many ways its own community, and as in any community and you have people who influence you and who you admire. In my little corner of the web Mandy Kelly was a face I recognized quite often in my feed. She was in my sphere, […]
Thirteen Months of Welcome Grief
His arm reached around me and pulled me close, as if He was trying to pull all my frazzled parts together and center me in my grief. My heart was aching as I felt his lips press behind my ear. Tears made their way down my cheeks. The first waves of grief rolled over me. […]
When A Broken Body Brings Life
And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” Luke 22:19 As I am sitting here, I am very aware of every hour ahead of me this coming week, aware that my body will be broken. I’m […]
When Life Invades
I haven’t really written much this year, I kept meaning to, but life just kept happening! Right at the end of January my Grandmother had a massive heart attack. She survived, initially. But the next week was a draining marathon of the hospital, and arranging for hospice. We brought her home, and she passed not more […]
Job: Why What We See Is Not What Is
What do you see as you read Job? Do you see pain and loss? Do you see judgment? Do you see hope? It can be hard to read this book. It’s hard to see the pain radiating from Job’s every word, so evident, as is the judgement coming from his supposed friends. If you read […]
Finding Light In A Dark World
The world seems so void of light these days. Another week, another shooting. Is it only me that feels weariness in my very soul? Light seems drowned by darkness. And this one? In my state, not all that near but still in a town where someone I know resides. Close enough that someone I knew […]
Turning Thirty and Smiling: Happy Birthday to Me!
Today is my birthday, my thirtieth birthday, and I am SO blessed. So thankful, so overwhelmed with gratitude for my life. Nearly fifteen years ago I was diagnosed with liver disease, and I remember asking the doctor how long I would be healthy, how long I would be ok. He couldn’t answer. A few years? […]
Beauty For Ashes
As life defining moments go, it was one of those big ones. I was fifteen. I was sitting up on the roof of our house. I’d been told earlier that I was sick, some type of hepatitis. My world had shattered, even then I didn’t know how much. All I knew at that point was that […]
A Child is Born
At this moment, this very moment, somewhere in the world a baby is being born. A child is letting out their very first cry. A woman is becoming this beautiful amazing thing: a mother. Every child, every last one, changes the world around it. This woman? Her life will never be the same after she […]