That moment in time is seared in my memory. I was sitting on the steps to a spiral staircase next to my dad’s favorite, worn out lounge chair. I had recently moved back home after deciding to end a 5 year marriage that could have been a script for a lame “made for tv” movie. […]
Surrender. There are two faces to surrender. There is surrender that springs from obedience and fear. And there is surrender that is birthed from trust and love. I started to write about this very topic, of Mary’s “yes” to God, several years ago. I never finished the piece out of fear. Fear that my views […]
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” I remember thinking as a child that this traditional bedtime prayer my mom prayed with me (until I was about seven) was creepy and awful. […]
Do you remember when you were a little kid and a loud, rumbling thunderstorm would come through in the middle of the night? The kind of storm that was so violent the house would shake when lightning struck. What did you do to calm yourself? Did you grab the covers and pull them tightly over […]
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