(The experience of the Children’s Memorial at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel) A million points of light.  More than a million in fact, time and a half, like stars blanketing a night sky but they surround you, envelope you. Each light representing a life, a child, that lived, laughed and then in one […]

Oh, Wonderful LORD, You have broken the darkness in my heart, pierced it with Your great and brilliant Joy.  Joy is bright and light and beautiful – this is why it’s so attractive.  Within Joy is Peace – bone strengthening, up-lifting, deep breathing, refreshing Peace.   Within Joy there is Hope.  Hope that looks beyond the morrow and into eternity, Hope […]

“Wholeheartedly fling yourself upon Him”. This always seemed about salvation to me. Oh, I’ve given Jesus my life, but this, there is more…  Today I’m given a vision, the next step in understanding.   Today it looks like a fisherman’s net being cast.  My life, your life, is the net.  I get the image of the net being cast […]

I hardly know how to put it into words.  Yesterday my heart took a hit, and the breath knocked from my lungs, as I saw in black and white that your name had been erased from the list of our family.  Oh, it’s just business, but the shock of it stirred the pain that now lives in […]

So, this just happened.  Got hit broadside with a life lesson, and right in the midst of it I knew it wasn’t just for me, but also for someone dear to me who’s grappling with grace, and for you.  You too, if you’re reading this, it’s for you. The past few years of life have been, well, […]

Sometimes life is like walking through the ocean wearing a trench coat.  And the weight of the sea-soaked garb drags like an anchor.  And the waves crush in from every direction.  And you realize the salty spray upon your cheeks is a trail of tears and the briny sea you’re trying to navigate is the sum of them.  […]