‘Someday’ is a way to fill in the blank of how things are not quite right yet. ‘Someday’ is near enough to hope for a goal, accomplishment, or a point of arrival. Yet, ‘someday’ can often feel slightly out of reach, clouding our focus and making ‘someday’ a day that equals a point of arrival. Often, I feel that someday…
The idea of going into a tough conversation is not my cup of tea. There are all sorts of tools and tests out there which tell us the type of person we are, including whether we move towards or away from conflict. However, my marriage is the truest test to date, teaching me how little I actually like conflict. Jesus…
Valentine’s Day comes with many love letters from businesses trying to sell you chocolates, clothes, pizza and jewelry. My husband and I ordered a pizza for Valentine’s Day, and a friend recently asked why we do that. To be honest, all I could muster up was, “Because it’s something different than our usual.” At times, the same old routine becomes…
Stay woke. This is more than a catch phrase, but a state of being. Moreover, one can be awake physically, but asleep mentally. On the other hand, meditation, which is a practice of being, involves closing our eyes, as if we were asleep, yet we are awake to all the senses and sounds around us; present with our reality perhaps…
Only a month into 2022, and I have a whole lot of reasons to be bitter. Bitterness is a sneaky form of hardening, for it is not the big, disappointing events that turn our hearts cold, but the little things. There is a quote that states, “The best things in life are not things” This plaque sits on the wall…
Celebrate when love grows deeply; More rich and beautiful than one can imagine; Agape love – who can fathom? There is More to life than what I see The Creator of the Universe and all the Galaxies Loves you Me And the sea of Red, White, Black and Brown A community under attack By things unseen Spinning lies, creating division…
Cloaked in fear and ignorance Brought before the eyes of the Seemingly innocent. Illness in the body Gripping the heart in a cloak Unrecognizable Medicines bandage the wounds But the wounds remain Sifting in pain There has to be a cure A reason for the core issue of This problem Do not fear Do not fear Do not fear The…
Whole people Part of a few Made up of a Tribe Ubuntu Holy people Who can claim? The one named Jesus Say his name Killed by those who Put their hope in The returning King Holy people Lost by their own fame Afraid to put their faith In this Divinely human King
Envision; A word packed full of hope And purpose. A race. Proof to The profound moments that start with a smile; While getting to know you through Other school-related means, meaning How we knew one another before Is history. The door for mystery stands with thick Hinges on these secretive lands. Pain cries out and tension is thick Madison, where…
Marriage is like a tree; I like what I see when the leaves blow In the wind. While the trunk stays grounded and immovable. Marriage is like a tree; Steady as the trunk, Like on the day I said, “I do.” Immovable yet as delicate as the leaves Cracking at the sharpness of the words – I mean, Wind. That…