stretch

That second I realize I’m going to have to stretch to reach it and every muscle tightens in anticipation rather than relaxing to bend and extend. That moment I realize I’m going to be stretched beyond my comfortable status quo and everything within me is taut with fear. That is when I realize I can…

connect

There are days when I can’t even connect the dots of my own feelings enough to know what I’d say if I had the words.  The only phrases I can string together come from sad mad Country songs and I wonder if songwriters are always in a state of emotional conflict.  Other days the sun…

the blank post

Sometimes I open up a new post and start typing but realize I don’t really know what I’m trying to say. So I click the “x” and write another post on another topic, because there are plenty of things I can write without needing to listen. But that blank post?  It’s still in my head. …

GoodNite Lite

GoodNite Lite

“Our night lite is orange!  Our night light is orange!” The door-opening and loud exclamations sometimes seem to negate the whole idea of “sleeping in”, but at least they’re getting the idea. We used to be greeted by “Ready brek-uss!  Ready brek-uss!” at about 6:25 each morning.  An announcement from a 2-year-old’s lips which was…

beyond
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beyond

If we could see beyond today as God can see… I could hear the tune in my head the moment I thought about the word “beyond.”  I pulled out the old brown hymnal to find it.  I don’t remember if we sang it in our church growing up.  But it only had one sharp, so…

The End.

The End.