I find it kind of weird when I see someone wearing “fashion glasses.” You know the kind? The fake ones that some people wear because they think they look cool? As an individual who’s needed glasses long enough to be the only kid on the play ground other than my brother wearing them, I just […]
Impressions of Memory
Impressions of Memory A Poem By Joy Aletheia Stevens ~ Memories echo in these halls Seeming voices from the walls In the ticking of the old clock Speaking, whispering of times forgot ~ Remembered reflections, from the glass case Or painted in the mirror on the wall The memory of little children at play Of […]
Why Fear Light?
What keeps us from Him? It’s the question crying out from the core of my soul as I watch so very many lost and weary and broken people. Why? Why won’t they reach out? Why do they fear His goodness and grace and beauty? Why fear the wholeness that comes from Him? Why love the […]
Up in an Olive Tree
I’ve been doing some journaling and reflecting lately. It’s kind of what you do at the end of one year and the beginning of a new one. God’s been very good to us over the last year. Things have been hard, but He’s been faithful. Now as I look forward I wonder what He has […]
The Moment of a New Year’s Birth
The Moment of a New Year’s Birth A Bit of Prose By Joy Aletheia Stevens ~ In that moment, in that moment. Suddenly the power of the storm swelled to mighty glory, And the merry cries of people mixed With the “chink” of billions of tiny droplets on tin. ~ You could feel it The […]
The Gift of New.
The presents are unwrapped and being enjoyed. The flavors of Christmas have receded into a cozy after glow. We turn our minds to The New Year that is ahead even as we look back and take stock of the year behind. We make goals and resolutions in the perpetual hope that is the new year […]
Where Do I Belong?
I was in a rather odd emotional space when I jotted down this idea for a blog post a while ago. I was feeling rather lonely and isolated and friendless. Not unusual for young moms I’ve found. But these emotions were just a little to overwhelming. Most people know that feeling when emotions, for no discernible […]
Why Keep Going?
I don’t know about you, but there can be days where one does not really feel up to trying. Trying to be good and kind. Trying to be loving and forgiving. Trying to chase dreams and callings. Trying to give of yourself just one more drop of patience. You just sort of feel like throwing […]
To Santa or Not to Santa?
This Christmas has been really fun in our house as I watch my daughter discovering everything. Every day there is a new object in the Advent calendar Nativity scene, and she always notices. It might be a star, or a cow, or a sheep, or a Sheppard, she always sees the one that is new. […]
Duck, Duck, Goose: Why I feel we need to call “truce” on the culture war.
There are days I really feel like sticking my head in the sand. Today is one of them. A guy from a show I never have watched in my life has made a statement. That statement has gotten a particular response. That response has set a big old explosion off in my facebook feed. I […]
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