Connection with God and Others
She opens a spiral notebook and shows me a cross she drew. I saw her pain on the page. Not like she fell apart or anything. No one would ever know. I’ve known her for a long time, but I’ve not really known her. It’s just that when one has been hurt so deeply for […]
You Reap More Than You Sow
Welcome to the Saturday gallery of glory! Today’s post is a tribute to a dear soul in my life. How can I label her? It’s difficult to find just the right words. I met her when she was 15, I think, while shopping at a local grocery store. Those who know my effusive personality know that […]
Worth the Wait
The bay by Fish Creek is melting, the ice breaking into white geometric chunks outlined in blue. A lone goose ambles next to shore, smacking her webbed feet on the still frozen. I giggle on the inside. She’s looking, beak moving left and right, waiting. Memory of last spring’s fuzzy goslings makes me smile. Does […]
New Life
Here it is, the day between death and life. Our Lord Jesus was off the cross and in the tomb. And the waiting—the waiting is hard. The hoping—holding onto hope can be so hard. But when God makes a promise, best believe He will deliver. Nothing is impossible for God. He’s all about resurrections, restorations, […]
Old Gifts
My dad might not describe himself as an artist, but he is. God gave him an exquisite eye for beauty, composition, and the technical mind to create great photographs before the digital age made the art form a bit simpler. From the time I was small, Dad carried his camera, prepared for whatever wonder might strike him […]
Faith in the Ice Storms of Life
The rain came pouring down. At 2 AM, I wake to God’s fingers sifting crystal beads onto roofs of house and barn. Horses are shedding winter coats. I wonder where they stand during this dark, icy night. Are they out vulnerable in the paddock, frozen rain pelting their bodies? Or have they sought shelter in […]
Beautiful for Life
What makes one beautiful at any age? I’ll tell you it isn’t creams or serums or injectables or clothes or jewelry or even good genes. Meet one of my best friends, a bit incognito . . . Still a beauty at 65, she’s ten years older than I, plus four days, this friend-gift of mine. […]
Life Fires
Our first hikes together were on St. Petersburg sidewalks, my husband and I and our about-to-be-adopted children. We all held hands and meandered through a park where we skipped stones on the pond and all spoke with each other in Russian. We walked every day while waiting for our court date to become a legal family. […]
True Friends
A friend loves at all times . . . there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 17:17 & 18:24 Welcome to a gallery of portraits I took this week on a glorious Wisconsin day—our first of the year where we could be outside on the farm without coats. This was […]
Unplug and Connect
Too many cords threaten to strangle the life right out of me. Cords for laptops. Cords for smart phones. Cords for Ipods. Cords for gaming systems and flat-screen TVs and all sorts of kitchen appliances invented for making life faster and easier. We are able to pack more into our days like never before because […]
Vision of Glory
One thing I ask of the LORD, This is what I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To gaze upon the beauty of the LORD And to seek him in his temple. For in the day of trouble He will keep me safe in his […]
Vision of Glory
Psalm 8 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, […]