Self-Sustained.
The sun warms the ground below me as I lie on the grass and stare into the vast South Texas blue sky. Around me, the stone walls of the...
A Welcome Home.
I’ll admit it, my eyes do gleam a little when I talk about food. And yes, I do read cookbooks like romance novels. I have done Snoopy dances after...
Courage in the Unfinished.
There are moments when life seems to flow from the pen in beautiful poetry and prose, and there are times when it feels more like an unfinished sentence –...
Love Looks Like.
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign...
Frail. Wispy. Smoke.
The fields are on fire. In places like Guatemala and Uganda, the white plumes rise like tufts of air-spun cotton across the countryside as the farmers burn to prepare...
Becoming Quiet.
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you...
Want to Fly.
The spirit of every human is like a kite which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to...
See the More.
A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains. ~C. JoyBell C. The ravine sits...
This is Edgar.
His name is Edgar. He is our bus driver, charged with the daunting task of getting 23 people from here to there on a daily basis. Though we’ve only...
Jerk. Fool. Idiot.
I watched the interview last night. The one with that guy – you know, the one who cheated and lied and wronged people and thought he would get away...
Church. Sanctuary. Song. Joy.
Today, this is my church. This is my sanctuary. This is my song. This is my joy. Today, I am reminded that church is not a corporation. It is...
Comfort Food.
It’s raining. There is at times a delicate mist in the air, and times when the silence is disrupted by the tap-tap-tap on the windows and the gentle rumble...
