When life throws you change-ups
Routine, are you friend or foe? How I do love to know what to do and when to do it. That feeling of confidence when, like clockwork, this ticks so that tocks. The alarm goes off at 5:45. The morning coffee. The paper. The blog post. The conference call. The lunch hour. The 5:00 rush […]
In the eye of the beholder
Sunset, Sunrise. 5:20pm 7:00 am Oh, how the light of a new day paints things differently. And imagine, just this morning, I sat back and pondered this whole scene from a distance. 7 am Whoever thought this up knew what they were doing.
Taking the long view
The further away I am, the more perspective I have. The closer I am, the more the seismograph is jumping off the paper. Imagine the view God has. From His distance he has perfect perspective. Small perturbations. Small waves. Very little noise. The further you can reach, the greater the distance from which to gain […]
An exercise in humility
Bending awkwardly to lower the bowl full of water to my elderly husky, I wait while he takes his time. Lapping aimlessly. I am off balance and teetering, wishing he would just hurry up and get his drink. I steady myself to square the offering of bowl and water and to wait. This is the […]
Looking for truth through fallible eyes
See is believing, right? Well, yes and no. I was talking with an elderly man who has been colorblind since, well, at least the 10th grade. That’s when they discovered it. When they showed his class the disk with the pixels and everyone else saw 9. He saw 27. He’s red-green colorblind which is, apparently, the […]
My dot-to-dot life
I jump from moment to moment, flying, arching through death-defying leaps. Often landing just short of my target and kicking furiously to hoist myself onto it. Onto the lily pad, floating in welcome. Is life just a series of these landing pads? Mere dots? Seen from God’s vantage point, the distance between them diminishes. Closer […]
