Timing is Everything, and God's is Always Perfect

I just got done cursing, literally, the F bomb was used, winter.  I may have also beaten the ever living crap out of a pile of snow on the side of our driveway that I slip on every blessed day while I unbuckle/buckle my son in and out of his car seat.  I may have some anger issues.  Normally, I can regain...

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When "They" Become Real People

I've been struggling to get so many of these words out for a long time.  No words seem to do justice to explain what I have been feeling in my heart.   I have been having an internal struggle for the last couple of years when it comes to what I feel is a division in The Church that is growing wider and wider.  There are those that will preach "the Truth" and follow The Bible and everything in it to a T,...

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I Hold You

I wrote this on Saturday morning in my journal and I'm finally getting around to sharing it now. ----------------------------------------------------- It is 5:45 in the morning.  I am in a hotel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  I should be sleeping, but I can't.   The sounds of two of my children breathing deeply as they sleep fill the air.  I am lighting the page on which I write with the glow...

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From Deliverance to Freedom

Since we're still getting to know each other, I figure it is as good of time as any to tell you that I am an incredibly broken individual.  I've kind of always been that way, at least as long as I can remember.  As early as 6 or 7, I can remember trying to go to sleep at night but not being able to because I just kept replaying every big mistake I'd ever made in my head.  Like the time I broke my grandparent's...

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