Shattered Glass

One morning when I was a young girl, I was helping my mom unload the dishwasher and I dropped one of the glass cups. I can remember the way it shattered across the floor and we paused. Embarrassment and worry flooded me, I felt the heavy weight of failure pressing on me and moved to […]

Sun of My Soul

Silence. Do you ever crave it, wondering just what secrets lie in its wake? Sometimes, I find myself wishing for the pause of a moment, for the simple elegance of bliss. That sort of feeling when for once you don’t have to wake up to an alarm, but rather to the silence of a room […]

Scatter Sunshine

In life we have innumerable choices we can make. Some are important and others are simpler—yet one of the most important is how we choose to respond to life’s circumstances. I will be the first to tell you that I was the emotional child of the family—the kid who made sure the entire house knew […]

You Will Walk Free

I’m a visual person. But not in the way you’re thinking. Perhaps there is a term for it that I’m unaware of—but my form of visual learning comes through words that create pictures. It is no shock to me as I tend to view and see things in this way. Perhaps it is a way […]

Clean Your Windshield

“I want to be broken over the sins of my heart. I wish I grieved over them more—even the little sins.” A friend said this to me recently and I have been pondering her words ever since. She was concerned about the casualness of her heart toward those sins we deem “small.” Her reasoning? Not […]