Open your Hands

Like a knife slicing through butter, I stepped out of my house and into the crisp yet somehow damp with humidity morning. It’s not abnormal for Texas to provide such paradoxical weather. I clomped over to my car door and noticed a butterfly perched on the handle with outstretched wings. Instinctively I froze and gentlyContinue reading “Open your Hands”

Chair of Hope

“Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.” (Proverbs 31:10) During the service at our church this morning, this scripture came to mind as Brenner and I sat beside my dear friend who had two of her children clinging to her. “Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.” (Proverbs 31:10). Powerful stuff. .Continue reading “Chair of Hope”

My now

A face smudged with charcoal, and paint streaking the tips of my long blonde hair, that’s how you will find me these days. Who knew I’d become an artist in my twenties? Not me. As I uncovered painful and suppressed moments from my past, beauty was risen out of my ashes. Not a beauty thatContinue reading “My now”