On this lovely afternoon, while playing ball with our rescue dog, I had quite a revelation regarding my relationship with God. Our dog, who loves to play ball almost as much as she loves to eat (and that’s a whole lot), kept trying to run by me on the deck just after she caught […]
Archives for March 2016
A Forced Healing
Yesterday, I bumped into a contemporary who was diagnosed with a different form of advanced stage cancer not long after I became critically ill from multiple myeloma. When I asked how she was doing, she told me that she had just undergone another surgery. And as I marveled at how well she appeared to be […]
Who and How God is
Just this week, from a woman who appears to be very kind and well-meaning, I heard a comment about God that I believe would have put me in a place very far off from God had I heard it years ago when I was at quite a different place in my relationship with him. This […]
Fear or Freedom
For many years, I’ve been told, via words from God himself, that perfect love casts out fear; and I’ve continued to wonder, relentlessly, why I cannot seem to find a way to live life down here with less fear and more freedom. And it occurred to me as I read a book yesterday, written by […]