i lived in three houses as a girl. the very first one stays with me as the truest home. patton street. ten years of growing up. ten years of not knowing anything but 7702 patton in detroit, michigan. i don’t know when it started but […]
there’s this part in the bible. i think it’s in the old testament somewhere. it’s god talking to his people. he says that when they get to the promise land, when they get everything they want – even more than they ever knew they’d possess, […]
during communal prayer at church, anyone can say anything. i’ve heard mothers weep for children and homeless men go off on political rants. last sunday i had a prayer in my throat. but i think and rethink. i wonder how i’ll say it. i’m […]
he placed his spread hand over his heart and told us that this was a sincere gesture. and he was right. i do that. if i hear news that touches deep, my fingers fly up and lay down flat, a shield for my heart as […]
and then it was december 25th. as soon as we find out we are pregnant, we put the tv out on the curb. wanting to have integrity about raising a child without one, we thought we should get rid of it before they even arrive. […]
if my life were dusted for prints what would the evidence point to? where would you find me most of the time? there would be a lot of prints on the computer, on my iphone. you would find my steering wheel covered as i head […]
flowers splay and the air coming through my daughter’s bedroom window is painted pink with magnolia blossoms. out there spring has roared. how does quiet make such a noise on the landscape? i walk with children under the dogwood branches and the holy spirit is […]
“are you willing to give up your other passions so that people can hear about jesus?” well wouldn’t you know it. i thought there for a while that there was no further to go. i knew that when i bowed my head that one morning […]
i remember driving along and praying for the interaction i was about to have. i prayed for patience and the ability to hear god. i prayed that she would see jesus and that i would be kind. and then i had to laugh. i’d been […]
“We had supposed our lives to be so utterly ordinary. Sin-habits dull our free faith into stodgy moralism and respectable boredom; then crisis rips the veneer of cliche off everyday routines and reveals the side-by-side splendors and terrors of heaven and hell. Apocalypse is arson […]