I’m going to take everything you love . . .What matters to you most? Didn’t everyone have regrets for things they’d done in the past? Today she would choose to trust though. Trust that God had led her to the right place for help, even when she didn’t quite understand the method. Nothing could happen […]
Textures of Text: Worth the Sacrifice
They had reached the end of their rope. Steeped in self. Stuck to stone and stubble. Deep in depravity. They stumbled in sin and set nets for others. Held hostage by habits. With hearts hardened by a spirit of harlotry. Without knowledge of God. And He was about to let them go. When they go […]
Textures of Text: Under His Wings
Once, as I traveled through the Himalayas, there was a great forest fire. Everyone was frantically trying to fight the fire, but I noticed a group of men standing and looking up into a tree that was about to go up in flames. When I asked them what they were looking at, they pointed up […]
Textures of Text: Steppin’ Out
I got a faith lift today. I needed it. It came in the form of Sue Duffield. Laugh lines stretched. Tear ducts exercised. Energy infused. Do you know Sue? If not, you should. She’s a sanguine songwriter, singer, speaker, and sagging spirit lifter. She lives out loud (LOL), laughs out loud LOL), and loves […]
Textures of Text: Stone Crossings ~ Rising Above the Mess
I read it last summer. Straight through. And posted about the towla worm here. But there is more, so much more in this book by L.L. Barkat, author of God in the Yard, the book that I am slowly making my way through while I sit in my own yard. I pick Stone Crossings up […]
Textures of Text: A Blog Check-Up
Writing is really very easy. Just tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. ~Derrick Jensen I’ve blogged for about a year and a half. I started with Beholding God. Then along came The Write Pursuit. Both on Blogger. The two of them melted into this one in August. But […]





