Light in This Present Darkness

I don’t know about you, but I don’t do too well when the power goes out at night. If I know there is a storm coming, I prepare, of course – but in those few moments in my life when a power outtage came out-of-the-blue?  Well, it wasn’t pretty....

The Fingerprints of God

There’s nothing that’s quite so arresting as awareness of God around us. I mean really near. Not just the cursory acceptance of the verse “I am with you always”, but the raw knowledge that Someone has direct involvement in our lives. It can be...

Giving UP just before the view

Our family is on vacation this week in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and we happened to visit a place called Chimney Rock yesterday. It’s one of the sites used in the filming of the movie Last of the Mohicans – a fantastic mountain...

Once Upon a Time…

Okay – so I’m a sucker for fairytales. Just ask my mom. Growing up I practically lived in a little fairytale world. Gee, as an aspiring author, I kind of kept that mentality into adulthood. 🙂 So when the season finale of Once Upon a Time came on last...

Visiting Old Friends in the Bookstore

I’m a big fan of bookstores, and although I’m not against e-books, I think I’ll always find something comforting about holding a book in my hands, smelling the pages, touching the print… yeah, I’m a geek – but I embraced that fact...

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