All this timeA conciliatory promise,that You are morethan just vaporBut the rush of windmy Spirit craves.
1 day ago • 1 min read
I'm letting space infiltrate my brain and lungs again. I get deeply focused on the same thing, wearing it round and round until it's threadbare, and I take to mending it. A friend of mine and I were discussing how raising kids with ASD and ADHD has given us an opportunity to look deeper within. And I know I'm on the spectrum. It used to bother me, my differences. But I also see how God uses them. I think I might disarm people. I imagine it might be like looking at a child and thinking, "They...
1 day ago • 1 min read
I guess sometimes, I getchinks in this armorfrom where I rub a holeWith my wayward thumb. My prayer?For a stronger mind,an obedient heart,An understanding That all my faultsCould never EvenClaim to measureUp againstAll YourGoodness.
2 days ago • 1 min read
Is there anything harder than removing your heart, watching it grow legs, and then leaving it at the side of the road? No, probably not. As a mother, this is my constant feeling, but also, inside that heart are my insecurities, my wrong turns, my doubts, and the revelation that the way I think is different, not the same. That I'm alone in the world with my thoughts, even when I'm not lonely. And for all of these things, to the third and fourth generation, amassed and alighted within a single...
2 days ago • 1 min read
All my life,You've spread the cardsFor me to pickThe one that Reflects the pathMy walking feetWere meant to take.But there they go,My unwashed hands,Picking and loosingthe pile only for Youto gently pick them backUp and offer them allAgain.
3 days ago • 1 min read
Once upon a time, my dreams were big. I wanted to be published and well-known and for everyone to love me. Now my dreams are bigger. I want to serve my husband and my daughter even when that evil niggling serpents itself around my shoulder. "What happened, Ericka? Where did you go wrong?" But everything is so right. My daughter has done a 180. She's focused on being a nurse and will be volunteering at the hospital where she wants to work one day. My husband has a new job, and we continue to...
5 days ago • 1 min read
T.S. measured the monotonyIn coffee spoons,And I can do the same,But also in every prayerWhisperedOr groaned,The way the lights dimWithout our doing,And in the sunYou always manageTo bring upEven as weClaimWe are the onesIn control.
6 days ago • 1 min read
Yesterday, I was scrolling through YouTube and found a 60 Minutes clip about people who are in "real" relationships with their AI companions. I, of course, didn't click on it because I didn't feel in the mood to tear my clothes and cover myself in ashes (feels more like a weekend thing, you know?). Everywhere I look, there are people searching for God's love, His eternal peace, and they don't even know it. So instead, they look to their manmade devices, their manmade ideals, their manmade...
8 days ago • 1 min read
How bone-faced in the deadOf winter do we have to be To remember the slightCurve of a hip,The fat in one's chin,The forever He madeThat we've tradedto watch ourselves starve?
9 days ago • 1 min read