lonely | five-minute friday

Linking up once again with the lovely Lisa-Jo Baker for Five-Minute Friday.  The challenge is to write for five minutes, unedited on the word of the week. This week’s prompt is:  Lonely.It’s that word that sits in the hollow pit of an empty stomach, longing to...

rooibos in my pocket

Five months ago, our little family of five crammed our most precious earthly possessions into twelve overstuffed suitcases, and traipsed across the Atlantic.  In a manner of speaking, that is. To many, twelve bags weighing fifty pounds each may sound like a whole...

i once was blind

I spent two decades of my life dependent on eyeglasses and contact lenses.  Twenty years.  That’s 7,300 mornings of reaching for prescription frames upon planting my sock-covered feet on the bedside floor. Then one morning, I opened my eyes, and I could see.  I...

lean on Him

The following article was recently posted on iBelieve.com: I heaved open the double doors to the aging gymnasium, grateful for a heated shelter from the snowy Saturday afternoon – and even more grateful for two hours of free roller-skating at the local gym to get the...

togetherness

I let my eyes slowly scan the oval perimeter of faces that lined our new living room walls – sister, cousins, aunt, uncle, significant others.  My heart swelled with gratitude to be in that room … together. After a decade in a foreign country, I was finally home.  Ten...

bless the Lord

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYLTn4fKYQ bless the Lord, o my soul, worship His holy name sing like never before, o my soul i’ll worship Your holy name ..