They are leaving their own problems behind. Breakdowns, financial woes, planting, harvesting and milking. Leaving it behind for 10 days. These farmers are stepping away from the land they love, to go. Many of them needing much help. Have much to do. Pressing deadlines. But in the middle of a cold and snowy winter, they are boarding planes. From Iowa, from Vermont; they are going. They have felt the call; the nudge to do more. To be a people that says, "yes". They will build in the sod of this earth, with ... View Post
Those Ancient Words
. The Ancient Words Helping. Spreading hope. Our compass. Guiding and encouraging. Truth. And a reminder in a song. Those words are holy. Handed down through generations. Faithful ones, sharing their journey. Changing us. Molding us into the children we were created to be. The sustenance in my life. Evermore so these past 17 and a half months. When time stopped. The Ancient Word breathing life. Word by word. Though by thought. Reminder by reminder. The Captain at the ... View Post
Letting Go Of Fear and Being Hope For Someone This Year
It's here. Another year. Looming before us. Choices. Unknowns. 2014 came and went. And here we are. Wondering. What will this year hold? Hope. It is a gift. One to look for and embrace. To grab hold of and seek. It is hope that spurs us on. Hope that reconciles the rough way. Right close behind is fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of what is known. Fear can paralyze us. Blind us to truth. To a future. We are reminded to not fear. We are given a promise of ... View Post
If He Asks, Are You Willing To Do The Hard Thing?
Most mornings I still wake with a longing for things to be different. The piercing ache still very present. Images of my red head running through my mind. Reconciling the reality. His life here, on this earth, finished. My life continuing. Striving to push against the tide that will threaten to pull me under. 2014 is coming to a close. A year that never held my son. A year we battled cancer. A year we walked on the wings of grace and mercy of friends and community. A year where the God of ... View Post
For 17 Months Our Hearts Have Been Held By; God, A Community and Family, We Are So Grateful
A silent, still night. The ache remains. Even after 17 months. 2 birthday's. 2 Christmases. And much in between. A loneliness along with the ache. I have lost my child. Our family so changed. And sometimes I feel lonely. I feel like I was part way through a really great book, one I have loved to read. And now the rest of the book is gone. Never to be finished. Year One, you are numb when you decorate the Christmas Tree. The Ornaments, they leave you gasping ... View Post
Bringing Order Out Of Chaos
He rings the bell. The bell rung to celebrate the end of chemo. I try to take a video. My hands shake. We are done with chemo. Unexpectedly. We thought we had one more week. They had miscalculated. Last week was the last treatment. The toxic cocktails have ceased. We are on to the next steps. Life after cancer, and life without our son. I fight back the tears that threaten to spill. They let me ring the bell. I ring it loud. I ring if for my mom, for my husband; for my son that I so desperately miss. I ring it for ... View Post
