Stunned to find a rose-breasted grosbeak at the feeder this week. I never saw one before. It’s song is “like that of the robin, only as sung by an opera singer, being mellower and more sweetly melodic.” The missus could use a clothing allowance. […]
Through and Through Life: Celebrating Joy in Photos
Sometimes joy hides right in the open. Waits for me to notice. Thrums with sweet surprises to melt life bitter. While I look squinty eyed right at her. Or past her. Or through her. But with my God-tinted lenses, I see her. In the midst of the storm. And a grandgirl hidden in […]
Window on Writing: The Putty Grampa Flubberized
Flubber. That was the word I grasped for yesterday when a friend asked how my writing was coming along. The Putty Grampa has morphed into silly putty. Flubberized. He’s exploded, and pieces are bouncing off my brain. He started as a simple glob based on less than a thimbleful of my dad’s wispy memories. […]
Textures of Text: King of My Heart
Everywhere I turn these days, it’s about the heart. There’s the one that beats within my chest. The one for which I have to wear this goofy event monitor for a whole month and then stress it in a couple of days. The one that controls my physical body. But there’s also the one […]
Monday Meditation: The Middle of Midnight
A Roman-sealed stone could not hold Him. God unwrapped in Jesus. Grave clothes shed. Death defied. Prison break. Freed to free. Forever fourth day. ******** Plummeted in darkness. Possessed by my possessions. I follow phantom gods. Arms outstretched, He calls my name. Nails mend shredded heart. He rolls away the stones. And in the middle […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: He. Is. Risen!
Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here. HE. IS. RISEN! Luke 24:5-6 (NIV) Resurrection Blessings,
Saturday Snaps: Contemplating the Cross
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. ~Luke 9:23 Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him […]
Fuel for the Weekend: I Thirst
They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out. ~Isaiah 48:21 (NIV) I thirst. I don’t know if the words shook me awake a couple weeks ago or if they waited on my headboard to pierce […]
God on His Knees
I spoke once, maybe twice that day. Given my best, and what energy remained leaked through the cold metal of the folding chair and pooled on the floor. We sat towards the back of the conference room, and I wanted to be engaged with what the next speaker shared. But my head hurt, and […]
Window on Writing: Great Lakes ACFW Mini-Conference
I haven’t been to a writing conference in years. Years and years. Well, until this past Saturday when I attended the first one sponsored by the newly formed ACFW Great Lakes Chapter. I loved meeting other Michigan writers. And I came away encouraged and inspired. With a little yellow pad filled with notes. Author […]
