I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.” ~C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle In The Last Battle, the final volume of The Chronicles of Narnia, Jewel the unicorn finds the…
I appreciate the “love” we give February. It’s such a hard month between the renewal of January and the hope of spring in March. If it weren’t for many of the important celebrations assigned, I fear it would be a dreary twenty-eight days to endure. Thankfully, Valentine’s Day does fall smack dab in the middle,…
“You gave him your debit card?” Incredulous, I stared at my soon-to-be-fiancé. Only now I wasn’t so sure our engagement would happen as soon as I hoped. After six years of dating, I knew it was coming. I’d helped pick out the ring. I knew he’d been saving and that all that money was in…
I’m building my seven-year-old daughter a dollhouse for Christmas. I’m quite sure it won’t be finished in time for Christmas morning, but it will have walls and floors and wallpaper and a porch and a roof, at least. The shingles will still probably be missing, and the windows as well, but hopefully I will manage…
“How do you forgive yourself?” A few seconds passed. No one moved to answer. My mind was forming a response. Talking in front of a group is not an activity I relish, but I knew I was going to speak up this time. I didn’t have all the answers, but I had hope and my…
“Thank you for being here. It means so much to me.” Her words pulsed with an unspoken yearning to believe I was there on purpose, just for her. I was dumbfounded. I was serving on a Kairos weekend at the women’s state prison, and until five minutes ago, we didn’t know each other. Or rather,…