Love says thank you 1,000 times…in dark…especially in dark (#731-#741)

January 9, 2012

source And it’s dark… feels hopeless… I want to talk to no one… write… nothing. #731… that You’re there…even in darkness. A year named connect… last year… so much connecting… But right now I only want to disconnect. I want to sit in the dark, alone, no phone, no internets, nobody knocking at the door. […]

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Love begins a new habit…and gives the year a perilous name…

January 5, 2012

source I believe there was a prophet…Samuel… shopping for a new King for Israel a few thousand years ago… and not even considering the scrawniest son of Jesse. I believe that Our Lord told him… “God does not see as a mortal, who sees the appearance. The LORD looks into the heart.” (1SAM 16:7) What […]

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Love sees the beauty in the severity

January 3, 2012

source The most beautiful and breathtaking spots on earth… are in the most absolutely severe environments. Within severity is beauty – but in the severity it takes eyes of love to see. I need a name for 2012… thoughts have been swirling… hints only so far…but as yet…no name. Anyway…there’s this… Where can I go […]

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Love says thank you 1,000 times (#722-730)

January 2, 2012

source I’ve been there…the desert. Wind flies free of any barrier. Heat sits like a Sumo… atop its defeated opponent… the cracked…parched…ground… no life… …unless I see with better eyes. I’ve been there…the peak… in blinding blankets of white… the highest point in this land… cold stabs with a thousand blades of frost… source Nothing […]

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Love winds its way through injury

December 29, 2011

source Were they wrong? Yes. Were they cruel? Yes. Was it a one-time thing that blew over? No. It spread. Gossip, rumor, and innuendo always spreads. I don’t want to point fingers or lash out. Well… I do… but I won’t. That’s not love…and love is the thing. So how does love handle this injury? […]

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Love becomes a habit (and my first givaway ever)

December 28, 2011

source A couple of hundred pairs of feet mulling around… hardly any of the feet knew each other… it was a Christian writers’ conference. Every day there were writing classes, but the big thing was grabbing 15 minute, face to face appointments with editors from Christian magazines and major Christian publishing houses. It was the […]

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Love finds a way through the impassable

December 27, 2011

source So I thought I had this blogging plan. I prayed, planned, and prepped for more than a year before I started. It began magnificently… and in the first week it fell apart… challenges that no preparing readied me for… mistakes I had no idea I was making. But I didn’t give up. I addressed […]

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