I Don’t Understand
I don’t understand why you can’t understand me. No, I’m not complicated or complex or full of deep mysteries. I’m normal. Just me. Or so I thought, until looks and glares and comments shoved...
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A Spirit of Fear
Being strapped to a seat in the sky is one way to bring my nerves to life. I flew on a short plane ride last weekend, and although the view from my small slice of...
I Loathed Her Laundry
She hated her pile of laundry. She described the colorful cloth pile so eloquently on her social media post about being behind on household chores. The laundry took the brunt of her verbal beating. She...
Are you saying what I think you’re saying?
“Did you move that cereal box?” I ask. My sister curls her lip and flashes a side eye. “The one up there above the fridge? It wasn’t facing that way earlier.” Again, her face reads...
Who am I even?
If you want to discover who you’re not, just attend a women’s church event. “Do you have kids?” No. “Are you married?” No. The “no’s” still ring in my ears from the list of times...
Homesick Souls
I walk along the foaming shore of the ocean. The salty water gently taps my feet like a child with a secret; a cold touch before it slides back down the sand joining the pattern...
Earth is Not My Home
“Earth-is-not-my-home,” I said, my voice choppy and robotic; my best alien imitation. Imitations aren’t really my thing, but this one escaped my mouth before I even recognized it. My friend wiped the tears from the...
Strength and Dignity
She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.- Proverbs 31:25 Can I be honest? This verse has always annoyed me. I mean, I pretended to like it like all...
What’s that smell in my fridge?
The fridge seems to be my habitual place to pause in my house as an “um” or “like” fills in the spaces of a sentence. I go there when I’m starving and I visit it...
Painted Sky
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. –1 Thessalonians 5:18 The image was split into four squares, each boasting a picture meant to transport the mind to a...
More Than a Gulp
It’s a Monday morning. I wake up, scramble to find my slippers and feed the dog. Somehow, I forget that I hadn’t showered yet, and I have an early zoom meeting where even the best...
The Maker
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous – how well I know...
Reflections of the Heart
As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person.– Proverbs 27:19 NLT Real person. Hard to come by. Difficult to know. A reflection doesn’t lie. It’s incapable of fibbing or twisting...
Weathering the Storm
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.– Romans 8:28 NLT They say there’s something to be...