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This is how it happened for years. Every morning when I would come awake to the day, I would talk to Jesus. “Good morning,” I’d say. “It’s me again. What are we up to today, Lord?” I’d tell God how much I loved Him. I’d apologize in advance for the dumb stuff I was certain to […]
A Letter to My House (Written in 2011) Hey old friend, I’ve never been good at goodbye. But time has a way of forcing these things, and even as I tap the keys, the clock on your wall ticks a steady march toward the inevitable. The moving truck comes tomorrow. Right now, I find myself back in the place where we […]
I had both hands on the steering wheel, while I drove through the fine, gray mist hanging in the air. If you could have looked straight into my heart, it would have looked something like that soupy, sad sky. I was filling my brain with all kinds of bla-aaah and negative self-talk. My heart was […]
Outside my windows, the trees had begun their beautiful dying. I stared out blankly, eyes cloudy with grief, thinking about the phone call I’d just gotten. She was dying. I didn’t want to go say goodbye. But she was ready to go, surrendering to the season. She was a tree in autumn, about to show her glorious colors. […]
A few years ago, Scott and I took the girls on their first snorkeling trip. We landlubbers were overwhelmed by two things: 1 – The beauty of this whole underworld, hidden beneath the cover of water. 2 – The magnitude of the ocean, compared to the smallness of us. We were so overcome with the […]