With small pangs of heartbreak, I allowed him to turn 6-years-old. Twice that day he leaned close and whispered: I’m six. He’s trying it on. He’s turning, we’re all turning; officially exiting “Chapter of the Small Child.” (sigh) We’ve spent a lot of time here. Years ago, when I tossed my graduation cap high in [...]
I’ve been thinking about you… You waking with anxiety, curling up at night with anxiety, and carrying her wrapped around your middle like a boa constrictor. Squeezing out life with not enough time, not enough talent, not enough money, not enough friends, not enough… I know it personally. The pet who continually tears up your furniture [...]
I dread the dark. Not the eventual setting of sun at long day’s end, but the days, weeks, months, when the sun begins to rise later and later and leave us earlier and earlier until finally, we come to expect a hasty dusk near the same time neighborhood children hop off the school bus. I [...]
On Monday I turned 37. (That’s me, second from the right, the day Mandy came home.) This is nearly impossible to fathom, because wasn’t it last week I was celebrating my 12th birthday in Kaiserslautern, Germany? Weren’t we riding the train, my aunt and grandmother and two girlfriends and I, trying on new clothes in [...]
I realize I’ve been away from this writing place several weeks, and I’m tempted to feel guilty for not following my own weekly regimen. Especially since watching Julie & Julia last night. But then I remind myself that I am, afterall, a songwriter who does some blogging and not the other way around. So…thanks for [...]
Little Samuel points to the “boo boo” on his forearm, scrunches up his face and says: It stings, Mom. Feel it. I don’t understand as he presses his wound against my forearm, holds it there. His eyes fix upward on mine, searching: “Can you feel that sting, Mom?” Oh. I realize. He believes he can [...]
Maybe your list is shorter. The things you have to constantly retrain your mind to believe. My friend Vaneetha once said to me that we need to stop listening to ourselves and start talking to ourselves, which was revolutionary to me and linked arms with two other ideas I’d recently heard: I can change the way [...]
“All things are possible for those who believe [in Him].” Mark 9:23 Were you encouraged to imagine the possibilities? Did they hold a mirror to the brilliance of God in you, take you to the window and project onto the night sky the potential impact your particular Creator-infused you-ness would have on this world? [...]
When something life-giving falls from us who are riddled with want…a word of kindness or sympathy…an inconvenient act of generosity…isn't it a miracle? If something touched by our trembling fingers grows gold and winged, soars … finds entrance to another human soul…isn't it a miracle? When a child looks you in your tired [...]
