Archive for the ‘Suffering’ Category

I’ve got a Lazy Boy chair.  I love it!  Nothing better than putting up my feet after a day’s work and settling into it’s comfy goodness. It’s a family tradition.  My dad has one too, and more often than not he can be found wrapped in it’s leathery embrace as he reads, meditates or watches [...]

Birds are Optimists

Posted: April 5, 2010 in Holiness, Prayer, Suffering

As I swish my way down the street (I love the sound of windbreaker pants – woosh, woosh, woosh), I tip my chin towards the rain and observe the honking formation overhead.  Here it is, early April, and there they are, heading north.  Don’t they know it could still snow yet? I’ve come to realize [...]

Life is Not an Emergency

Posted: November 29, 2009 in Prayer, Suffering

“You’ve got to be kidding me!”  The cacophony of fire alarms were rattling my brains.  I looked up at the hairstylist, who had set her jaw and increased her pace.  Layers of foils floated around my face.  “Do you think we should stop?”  I asked.  “I’m comfortable going on if you are.”  I had visions [...]

Bread and Whine

Posted: November 23, 2009 in Suffering

I came limping into the prayer room the other day, feeling bruised by life circumstances – a downturn in my daughter’s health and a car repair that seemed unattainable.  Knowing that I needed, as David did when confronted by Ziglag, to strengthen myself in the Lord, I opened to the Psalms.  Psalm 16 seemed to [...]