What happens to you when the very foundations of your life shakes? In a sense, that is the question that is all through this book, Undone, a Memoir by Michele Cushatt. In an intimate glimpse into another persons journey she takes you along with her as she travels through experiences that would rock the world […]
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 […]
The Tree Falls: A Journey from Need, into Gratitude, into Trust.
The wind is howling outside, belying the idea of warmth that a clear sky and a shining sun show through my window. Trees are toppling, weakened by the drought. I sit inside safely, with a twinkling tree, and the warmth of all the decorations still around me, to sooth my heart. Soon enough this tree is […]
Rest In Him
We are broke. And I’m not just talking treading water broke, I’m talking under water, drowning, not even gasping for air because there isn’t any air, broke. Our bills this week amount to about three times the size of our paycheck. And that is after getting help for rent and food and scrimping and cutting […]
The Shadow of Death
Why? I see the pain, the suffering in the world and am overwhelmed. I see, I taste the fruits of death. The old, the young, the guilty, the innocent. So many robbed of life before their time. The child just waking up to life. The young woman, murdered by someone she thought she loved. I’ve seen […]
Worry Box
Worry Box A Poem By Joy Aletheia Stevens ~ I put my worry in a box, And laid it at the cross. It was no great sacrifice, And certainly no loss. ~ But then I took it up again, And took it to myself, As if it was a long lost friend, Or some great […]