Tag Archives: 2020 quarantine

Dear One, I feel like I’m being held hostage at a roadside rest stop, and it’s COVID blocking the on-ramp back to my life. As I write this, it’s day 15 of my sickness, and never before have I experienced this … Continue reading →

Dear One, It was my 6th day of COVID when I crawled into my morning chair for some time with God. My chest was tight from all the coughing spasms. I was over (but not over) being confined to a … Continue reading →

Dear One, What can you set down? A friend of mine was in a season of grief. She likened the weight of it to that of carrying an over-grown child in her arms. She was holding the heavy, and it became … Continue reading →

Dear One, I was in a meeting last night. All was rolling along smoothly until we got to the point where several of us didn’t see eye to eye on a certain matter. I felt the cogs in the wheel … Continue reading →

Dear One, I wrote a column yesterday, titled: The Seed, the Sower, and the Soil. In it, I proposed: Sometimes we are the seed, planted by God in specific places to take root, grow, and bear much fruit. Sometimes we are the sower, planting … Continue reading →

Dear One, This week will be different. This week I’m not so much giving you words, as I am asking for yours. Please. They’re needed. The goodbye’s have begun. Nineteen little bodies, two teachers, and one grief-stricken husband are being … Continue reading →

Oh Dear One, It feels like we are coming apart at the seams, like a ship in a violent storm. Our nation, our world, pummeled by wave after battering wave.  Our moaning now exceeds that of the raging winds. I … Continue reading →

Dear One, How do you live with something? A debilitation, a diagnosis, a disease. A situation or circumstance that’s difficult day in and day out? How do you deal? How do you live with it? In it? Through it?  A new friend of mine wanted to know. How do … Continue reading →

Dear One, I don’t walk many labyrinths. Mostly because my precious feet don’t appreciate it when I spend too much time on them. Therefore, I let my fingers do the walking😉. Literally. I bought a labyrinth on Etsy that allows for such … Continue reading →

Dear One, What are you preoccupied by these days? When I think of the word occupied, I think of a neon flashing light saying there’s no vacancy here. This suite, this seat, this space is taken.  Occupied means full.  Preoccupied means … Continue reading →