Where I Learned How to do Friendship
I haven’t always been good at friendships. I decided early on books were easier to get along with. And if you don’t live with grace for yourself, it is impossible to offer it to someone else. And she is still…
Thinking about you, my Mama
Today, I’m thankful for my beautiful mama… Bethel Farrington Myers Bethel, House of God All I saw were the loads of laundry and the nightly meal, I had no idea how strong you had to be to silently offer…
Verna’s Secret Joy
She lives alone in tiny, second-story rooms above a weather-beaten general store and now-defunct gas station that has seen better days. No one has used them for years. Verna has been a widow for forty years I learned one…
Morning Prayer
You’ve decided to greet the dawn. It’s very early, and no one is around. Just you and God. And He is such very good company… You rose early on purpose, knowing that by starting slowly and quietly you could move…
Learning to Abide
John 1:29-42 Confession time: I have built a habit over many years of learning about God so as to have tastes and appetizers instead of going straight to God and waiting with Him for His Presence, gathering a whole meal…
Freedom from Approval Addiction
Repent. Yesterday’s small group we call “Journey” looked at the rocks we carry around with us, the rocks of sin, felt their weight between our hands, fingered their surface, and stopped imagining they did not keep us from breathing pure,…
I Almost Stayed At the Sink
“My nest was empty…my life being resorted. Old habits were no longer useful….a new parenthesis had begun. The depiction of this evening in my life was symbolic of new things to come…new goodnesses to be explored and enjoyed. God spoke…
Spring Thanks
“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone” Song of Solomon 2:11 Oh, Lord, what a wonder You are! I stand back and exult in the coming of yet another magical spring, so beautiful it takes…
Sermon in a Graveyard
This is a true story, written exactly as it happened to me in the “morning” of my mothering years. It was published once, and then again and again. It seemed to touch a chord in many women’s hearts. And so,…
Thanks Healing
After reading One Thousand Gifts, a description of my own transformation: I was born blind. Fear covered my eyes like scaled cataracts and I was afraid to walk, afraid to move without feeling along the walls with my hands, my…