Broken and Burned
We go on the hunt today. Through field still cold and unturned, we hold our destination in sight, a ramshackle barn and a crumpled man’s home. The ruins. The broken. The history. The textures of a life long-lived. That’s what we’re after. We don’t want prettified. We want real and we want to see the deep […]
Prickly Pear
Even prickly pears bloom. My mother passed away in the dark of the night, just a few hours after Mother’s Day ended. Thirteen years ago, this year. I talked to her early on Mother’s Day. She was so excited about the bouquet of red carnations I ordered and sent the day before. I had told […]
Fare at the Fair
This morning, I’m pondering something deep, as usual. I’m thinking about the deep-fried food I saw last night at the Pima County Fair, about 60 miles north of the Arizona/Mexico border. I should be mourning like the dove cooing melancholy on the wall outside our condo. Instead, I’m cackling loudly like the thrasher out there also, waiting for his morning […]
Hold Hope
I ponder all the daffodil bulbs I know are eight inches under the earth. Three weeks ago there was no evidence. In the dark and deep, my daffodils remained invisible since September. So how did I know they were there? I planted them. The live bulbs were just resting, just waiting till the sun called them up and out. […]
Connection with God and Others
She opens a spiral notebook and shows me a cross she drew. I saw her pain on the page. Not like she fell apart or anything. No one would ever know. I’ve known her for a long time, but I’ve not really known her. It’s just that when one has been hurt so deeply for […]
You Reap More Than You Sow
Welcome to the Saturday gallery of glory! Today’s post is a tribute to a dear soul in my life. How can I label her? It’s difficult to find just the right words. I met her when she was 15, I think, while shopping at a local grocery store. Those who know my effusive personality know that […]
Worth the Wait
The bay by Fish Creek is melting, the ice breaking into white geometric chunks outlined in blue. A lone goose ambles next to shore, smacking her webbed feet on the still frozen. I giggle on the inside. She’s looking, beak moving left and right, waiting. Memory of last spring’s fuzzy goslings makes me smile. Does […]
New Life
Here it is, the day between death and life. Our Lord Jesus was off the cross and in the tomb. And the waiting—the waiting is hard. The hoping—holding onto hope can be so hard. But when God makes a promise, best believe He will deliver. Nothing is impossible for God. He’s all about resurrections, restorations, […]
Good Friday—Our Hope
Reflecting on what Jesus did on this day brings me to a still, quiet place of awe and gratefulness. I can’t fathom His suffering, His love, His utter determination to not leave us as broken orphans in a broken world. He chose to heal us with his life—and death. His choice cost him everything. We […]