We want to take her home. But her level of care will not allow that right now, and our heads spin with the options. They plan to transfer by ambulance. But it’s only a few blocks. Can we get her into a wheelchair? My brother has a lift in his van, and we decide to […]
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: The Soo Locks
It’s time to go home. But Grace saw a movie at school on the Soo Locks. She wants to see them up close and personal. And go through them. The scenery assaults me. We’ve come from peaceful and pristine to chaos and clutter. Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan side. A place of barges and docks and […]
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: Mackinac Island
My husband has business in Marquette, Michigan, so we’re stretching the week into a mini vacation. One of those hurry-up-and-have fun times. Making memories with the grandgirl. We’re on Mackinac Island. Gracee doesn’t remember her first visit. She rode on Papa’s back then. So everything for her is a new memory. From the ferry ride […]
Monday Meditation: To Wallow in the Glory
I doubt it was her first ice cream cone because she seemed to know what to do. But it was her first ice cream cone with us. One summer Sunday evening. A moment captured through the lens of love. Imprinted in memory and stamped on our hearts. A delicious dive into delight. We walked down […]
Monday Meditation: Do You Love Him? Really?
The sun hesitates to throw off its covers this morning. The sunflowers topple as they die. A goldfinch digs for breakfast. A blue jay settles on the bath for a drink (he drinks fast and flees), and a ruby throat hovers near the feeder. I love silent mornings as I go about my duties. The […]
Monday Meditation: Crazy Love in Northern Michigan
We are “up north” again. We’ve come to pick up my son’s car, left here since his honeymoon when he crashed it. (I still plan to post some wedding pictures. Here’s a peek.) We’ve decided to make a weekend out of it. Friday Night Live has taken over Front Street in Traverse City, and […]
Monday Meditation: Green Like Worship–A Poem
Green like worship summer dreams swim in rippled cloud ponds. Fern fronds bow and stately trunks stretch skyward. Arms reach for heaven hushed by monarch majesty and ancient words carved in dusty walls by shanty boy ghosts seated on log pews. Hymns echo through pine-carpeted cathedral and the sacred pours into lemonade lakes. […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Wedding Plans
We pick our way over the rocks and down the dune to the beach. Is this the right spot? We’re at the first bend on the way to Ludington State Park. Those are the only directions we have to the site of my son’s 4th of July wedding. How will the bride and the other […]
Monday Meditation: Bitter Turned to Beauty
The pot brewed bitter. Hurt and anger bubbled. Until the mixture burst its bounds. Words popped, veiled in humor. But cork screwed heart hole, burrowed deep. And I could not retrieve it. Though I tried at once, the one who bears the wound preferred to embrace it a little longer. And would not speak the […]
Monday Meditation: Love Dripped and Joy Stained
I did not plan to attend. But this morning He slipped me a free ticket. A front row seat to a royal performance. One splashed with lavish colors and stroked with holy brush. Love dripped and joy stained. I hold my breath as the curtain rises on a white-spattered Crayola-sapphire backdrop. As the light comes […]
