Dear lady standing next to me at the public bathroom sink, Yes, I have an issue, and it’s called OCD. The chemical misfires in my…
Babita’s song
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life. —Proverbs 13:12 We are waiting right now. Waiting, again. Seems like so…
Safe above saved
I knew it would come, knew she would say it before her time in Idaho was up: “I might stay, Momma. I hear God saying something,…
The Long and Short of It
Do I agree with them all the time? Of course not. We are 15 separate human beings, of varying lives and faith. We each have…
The message in the music
We have a tradition in our house. Clean-up after dinner is the teens’ job. So we do it to music. Loud music. Every night, until…
When I Left…
When I left it was difficult, there’s no way around that. But just how hard? Getting on the plane was just an act, but the…
The weight
It’s been almost agonizing, watching the box at the foot of her bed fill with sheets, spiral notebooks, wool socks. Bit by bit, the elements…
When she goes
We are weeks away now. She’s leaving. And although she’ll be back, although we know this is just for a short season, we all also…
Applying oneself
The calendar rolled around to February, and it happened. That thing I knew was coming all along, and yet, it still hit me hard in…