On Saturday, Joanie's ashes were tossed into the lake she loved. The lake where she lived for much of her life. The lake I live on now, in the house where her mom (my mother-in-law) grew up. Her memorial service was beautiful. Because You planned it, Lord. And You showed up in very personal and...
I could hardly keep my eyes open. Too much activity and too few hours of sleep will do that every time. I was barely awake. Until our Unwelcome Visitor showed up! All 300 pounds of him! (I'm guessing. I didn't ask him.) :) He didn't care that it was 2:00 AM. He had already finished...
I had never heard that word "chemoesque," Lord. Maybe because it doesn't exist. She made it up, the nurse who was trying to take my blood. It's the only word that described what she found. The condition of my veins. Hard. Like rock. Five years after the very aggressive Chemo I was given. To fight the...
Has it really been SEVEN weeks since I last posted here, Lord? SEVEN -- the number of Perfection? Completion? Does this mean my unusual silence here is coming to a close? I haven't been silent, of course. I have been writing -- to You and about You -- every single day! Often, several times a...
It has been one full week since severe pain first gripped my throat, Lord. Pain like I have not felt before. Making it hard to swallow... and hard to speak. Hard to take in nourishment. And hard to give it out... in spoken words, at least. Not moving into my head or into my chest....
It must have been a computer virus, Lord. I didn't realize they were so... contagious! Yesterday morning, I was supposed to have a teleconference with a dear Forever Sister. I had emailed her the day before with the dial-in instructions. She had emailed me back, saying she had picked up a respiratory flu "bug" and...
I love a gentle rain, Lord. The kind that makes peace-full sounds as it hits the leaves and the ground. The kind that soaks in, nourishing the roots of Every Living Thing. Even mine. Sometimes, I lift my hands and my face Heavenward... soaking in the WET-ness. Until my dry roots plump up again... and...
Oh, Lord... Sometimes You pour out Your Love like a tsunami! Filling my cup to overflowing... so much so, I almost have to say, "Stop, Lord! Let me catch my breath!" Not really. I don't want you to ever stop! :) Like Friday. I was driving from Florida to Georgia. On my way to a...
Oh, Lord... How amazing it is to see the hardening of so many people's hearts! I see them and hear about them in nightly news broadcasts... and all over social media. The raw footage of protesters expressing their free speech. Regrettably, many who are doing so with violent rhetoric and violent behavior. The quiet, yet...
Pretzels of the twisted kind. Thinking of the twisted kind. I heard it just yesterday. From those who claim to love You, Lord. Even me...? Not yesterday, perhaps. But I am certainly not immune... "...watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted." (Galatians 6:1) We were talking about events in our day. How, increasingly, the...
