skin thin

there is this thing about me i wish i could change: my skin is too thin. you can almost see it, flesh stretched over frame, opaque…translucent. how can those things be when they're seemingly opposite? i've tried to change. i've tried not to care....

Roar’s whisper

Ten…twenty years ago I was a lion.  Loud, proud, a conqueror.  I knew things.  I was sure and strong and bold and confident. I'd invite you in but I controlled the distance; you just didn't realize that.  Something about my roar...

What ifs and one thing

I stumbled across a J. Hudson Taylor quote that began to challenge me the past week ~ "The one thing we n e e d  is to know God b e t t e r."   There's difficulty in distinguishing true need from want, because whether or not we admit it to...

The Panhandler’s Breath

  He slipped in sideways between the closing elevator doors, as if he were late to a meeting; he pressed the “5” without looking. Instead of suit and tie, though, baggy pants and faded navy hung on his tall, slim frame. His stealth entry stiffened the...

12 Pearls of Christmas

Have you been following host Margaret McSweeney's 12 Pearls of Christmas devotionals?  Margaret and her team invited some of today's most beloved writers (Tricia Goyer (I love her!), Babbie Mason,  Suzanne Woods Fisher…and me on Christmas...

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