Life and Living

I will always be one who looks back. Out of my past, with all its levels of conjured contentedness concealed between cushions of deceit, I draw my emotion. In the losses, I find my determination. In the pain, I uncover energy to search for the truth of healing. In the regret, I discover grace. Out of the stupidity of ill-conceived actions and words, I hunger for wisdom. In the layers of the past, I see the unfolding of the future. On some days, it is as if I am still stuck back there; on...Read Full Story

All I ever need to know in life I can learn on the treadmill with my earphones on. Not really. But . . . I have learned some things in the afternoons, switching between talk shows like Dr. Phil and, a while back, Glenn Beck and Oprah Winfrey . . . with a little That ‘70s Show and Jeopardy spliced in during commercial breaks.   The collective, subjective, highly-suspect and often conflicting wisdom delivered by those in search of ratings and reactions could tie a brain in knots and split a...Read Full Story

So im back from by south-african adventure.. in Grabow, the Western Cape Volunteering in an amazing project "The Village of Hope" With 8 beautiful-little people and some awesome adults and a few teenagers, hospice patients and nurses I dont think a blog can sum-up everything theres so much to say, so many photos to upload, and just amazing moments that i want to share!! South Africa is stunning, and my first day volunteering was taking the children too the beach before term begun! I great...Read Full Story

(Note: Seven months have passed since our home burned. Now, just a couple of weeks away from moving into our new home, I've been thinking back to the night of the fire and the thoughts that swirled around in my head like smoke rising from the ashes of all we owned. The post below is adapted from the post that ran in December 2010, a few days after the fire.) For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by...Read Full Story

And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new .” – Revelation 21:5 I wish -- though I don't believe in wishes -- that I could take a number two pencil and write down on a blue-lined piece of three-hole-punched notebook paper the moments of my life, label it "draft," study it a bit, and then turn the pencil around to the pink side -- the eraser -- and smudge away forever a line here and there . . . many lines, major smudges. Study it a bit more, swipe away with my...Read Full Story