Tag Archives: life
A Deeper Family :: tipping the scale.
The day never holds enough minutes and moments. It never seems enough; the effort given, the time split, the little sacrifices made here and there, the want for more quality time, all feel like sand slipping through fingers. Life. It … Continue reading
be parenting.
“What does kindness mean?” My question hung in air between us for a bit as they knew exactly why I was asking. Most nights seem to require at least a quick emotional melt down right before bedtime. With consistency, it’s … Continue reading
down the trail.
Same mistake …again. Words, emotions, actions, all lit by the heat of the moment. Right there. Right in front of us both. Regrets pile high once dust settles and calm returns. Losing sight of who they can be and how … Continue reading
God in context.
I went away alone for a four day writing weekend to make progress on finishing my book, the first one that I’m writing. 60,000 words or so all dripping with life, mine. A view fixed from my eyes at life … Continue reading
I pushed her into the water.
Clean. Pure. Sacred. Water, a symbol of new. Our hearts, no matter how young, dirty with old bearing the weight of choices as old as humanity. Sweat dripping from brow returning to the dust from which it once came living … Continue reading
Daddy’s standard.
:: by Rachel McGowan The reason I have such high expectations in my future husband is because of the way my daddy loves me. I am my father’s first born, his only daughter, a full-blooded daddy’s girl, and the second … Continue reading
things she wants to say.
It’s in the remembering that we live braver, hungrier and more convinced of hope and grace and beauty swallowing. I have noticed small bright pink post it notes lying around in the same spot. At first glance, I paid … Continue reading
what makes love live.
“Well, do you love her?” Quiet. Blank stare. Long. His look part anger, part remembering, part brokenness. I had no wise words to offer greater than the realization settling back into his world. Something blocked it all, what he … Continue reading
a shadow.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1 “The nights are loneliest.” Standing there in a room of his most loved, he was all alone. So was I. … Continue reading
the beholder.
“If we shield the canyons from the wind, the beauty of a new creation may never be gained.” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Grief never goes away. To be repetitively honest, I hate writing about it. Pull the covers back waking to a … Continue reading