Family Dilemma:
She wants a connection, yet she keeps burning the bridge we’re meeting on. I see it. I get it. I’m just not here for it. I’m over all this foolishness in my life.
Category Archives: Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace
Set Fire to the Rain…
Set Fire to the Rain is a therapeutic letter featured in Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace. It was written three years after the addressee, Peewee, died. The letter represents the tiers and nuances of love and forgiveness that entangles and confuses interactions between an abuser and the abused.
Love Anyway: Things I Learned During My Harvest
Love Anyway began as a deep **sigh** in response to wrong treatment. It developed into a list of personal affirmations to choose to love even while rejecting and battling hateful behavior.
Verdant Valley ҉ Faith Challenges
Verdant Valley ҉ Faith Challenges is the title of the first section of Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace. This is a sampling from the section.
On editing an autobiographical work
There was no struggle with the first steps or middle ones. Only eagerness, a sense of purpose and a need to follow-through. The final actions carried the most anxiety because of their finality, perhaps because of the level of commitment and trust required to let go of the life I had been building for over twelve years.
Stork Delivery, Part 3: A Tree & Its Fruit
We can hold our thoughts up to a greater truth. For me today, that Truth is the Word of God. In my youth, that truth was what I thought of myself – or who I knew myself to be.
Stork Delivery, Part 1: When a 22yo Dropped Into My Life
Last summer some misguided and unrepentant stork dropped a 22-year-old prima donna aspiring hardcore rap superstar into my quiet solitary life.
A week of prayer, fasting and protest
Jesus didn’t come to tell us how horrible we are. He’s not about condemnation. Jesus is love.
An Open Letter: Woman to Man
Relationships are built on mutuality and thrive on reciprocity. I cannot build with someone who is constantly attacking me. Passive aggressive behavior is violent in nature. You may “only” be emotionally dismissive, neglectful, and stoic, but each instance is an attack on everything I see in and believe about you….I will not chase anyone who is not pursuing me. I am the good thing you are responsible for shepherding, but I am also responsible for where I choose to go. You lead, I follow. When you stop leading, I stop following. Remember that.
How a Man Treats a Woman Reflects on Him.
The way a Man of God treats a Woman of God says a lot about what he truly believes and who he truly serves.
Harvest Life 