Love considers the sad struggle of the storm bird

May 11, 2012

source God has power. The stormy struggle has power. I, you, we also have power. The noblest way of confronting a life storm is that way of the eagle… yielding to the power of God… moving boldly of our own volition… stealing the storm’s power and rising above it. In the comments last time Rebecca, […]

Read the full article →

Love steals power from the storm

May 9, 2012

It’s a real picture…from yesterdays post about a real heart shaped cloud… next to a real rainbow… just after a real storm… Almost as soon as the heart shaped cloud took form, it began to break apart. I then took another shot…and there is something there that my naked eye couldn’t see… at first just […]

Read the full article →

Love sees storm, rainbow, heart, and beyond (thank you’s #895-901)

May 7, 2012

Sunday afternoon… bright sunshine… an earsplitting clap of thunder… Laska the Love Kitty startles, ears back, tail down, feet wide apart. He tiptoes to the window. I go outside to get a better look. It’s clear skies in every direction… except… a violently churning storm cloud directly above… lightning bolts flash from one side to […]

Read the full article →

Love requires perspective…and perspective requires “looking around”

May 4, 2012

source   It was 65 degrees… resplendent sunshine… Cinco de Mayo in L. A. After lunch at a very festive Mexican restaurant, my friend Laura and I headed out into that sunshine, into a boat, and onto the Pacific Ocean. Sunlight has a magical quality as it’s reflecting off of blue waves. No? The boat […]

Read the full article →

Love is never abandoned by the unforgettable

May 2, 2012

source I remember… literally. not. breathing. I remember, like 5 seconds ago… the world fading to background… the first time she smiled at me. I can’t forget her gaze, at first cast down to her feet… then shimmering gray-blue eyes meeting mine… the warm of blush on my cheek…and hers. And the first time she […]

Read the full article →

Love sees deeper…and fumbles through thank you’s #889-894

April 30, 2012

I don’t much heart moths. Moths are… dusty. Butterflies are more elegant and alluring. But you work with what you’ve got. It’s time to see the dusty stuff better anyway… circumstances…the odds, long and short… and alongside it all, a little more, a little deeper. Time to see with better eyes… in this year I’ve […]

Read the full article →

Love nurtures life…even when life is lost.

April 27, 2012

source Kristin is a mom of three… one child here, two in heaven. Her second baby nearly died at 10 weeks from liver failure. Later it was discovered that he had an immune disease called HLH. And so it began. Her baby underwent three bone marrow transplants within two years. Before I knew this story […]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →