“the value of the earthly and the wonder when what happens here moves us to the heavenly” – in an email from my friend and former fellow team blogger at Ishshah’s Story, Pat Joyce – *** She’s ba-a-ck. I heard the ‘Ding. Ding.’ My week opened up and lots of prayerful processing has been going […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Ten
To the chief musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; O God! You cast us off; You broke us; You who were angry; take us back. You made the earth tremble; You tore it; heal its breaks, for it is shaking. You have shown Your people hardship; You made […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Nine
“The Progressive Order of the Holy Spirit” Nancy C. Bentz As I write this, it is the day before Donald Trump becomes President of the United States. By the time you read this the Oath of Office will have been taken and his first day will be a marker in the annals of America’s history. […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Eight
To feel need is to receive grace. Frances J. Roberts I don’t know about you, but I enjoyed the quiet holiday we had last week. With weather like a Currier and Ives painting, my husband and I never left the house the two days of Christmas. Sheltered within from the falling snow without, we ate, […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Seven
Welcome back with Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Seven. We’ve had a bit of a break between rounds. A ‘one-minute’ hiatus to concentrate on other things, like Christmas. Not to mention the daily affairs of life being lived and laid to rest, procrastinated about or simply ignored, chased down or chased by, embraced or resisted. […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Six
By the time one hits Round Six in the boxing ring, it means they have some fight in them. It also means they likely have a cut lip, black eye and some sore ribs. They didn’t make it through five full rounds by dancin’ pretty. Welcome to round six of reflections of an election heart. […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Five
1976. America celebrated its two hundredth birthday midway through the year. My husband and I married in September. Rocky, a low-budget film about a Philadelphia small-time boxer who gets a rare chance to fight heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, was released (against all box office odds) on November 21. 2016. Forty years later. While America was […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Four
A soldier, a scientist, and an RN walked into a bar. They each had a piece of the whole. So did the welder ordering a root beer and the secretary nursing a diet Pepsi. Did you know that at any given time, that’s all any of us really have? A ‘piece of the whole’? Of […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Three
If you’ve ever had a major operation you know there is an increase in pain a few days post-surgery. The anesthesia that was delivered into your system, so that what needed to be cut into and explored, repaired, removed or realigned could be, has worn off. A couple days later, the undeniable realization that your insides […]
Reflections of an Election Heart, Round Two
Today the sun was shining with unseasonably nice temps for a third of the way through November. Since I live on the west coast of the United States at this writing, Mr. O and Mr. T have already shaken hands and ‘struck the pose’ for the White House press and paparazzi. After which they presumably […]