You call me out upon the waters ( Read more... )

On this last day of 2013 I am very sad for many people.  I woke up this morning to find that an old school mate's son had passed away.  He was critically injured in a fight with his sister's boyfriend.  Here today and gone tomorrow is such a true statement today.  A few more old school mate's parents have passed away in the last month.  I know I am ( Read more... )

As communion was being passed, I slipped my arm into my husband's arm and hugged him gently and I slipped my other arm around my mother.  It was such a special moment for me to have my loved ones with me today.  My cousin Tracy was seated beside my mother and I was so thrilled to have him there, too.  Tracy kept saying "this place is so big" and I ( Read more... )

I can't believe the opening of Southland Richmond Road campus is finally here.  It has come so fast and yet I thought I would have to wait forever for it happen.  This has been my heart for so long.  With every mention of that place I would tear up because I knew and know that God has something grand planned for the people in that area.  Lives are ( Read more... )

I've been at my new job a month tomorrow.  I feel very blessed to be there.  I was so used to things being so hectic at Galls and this place is nothing like is nothing like that.  Its a lot like the first job I had when I got out of college.  It was announced on Monday that 3M will be buying us.  Many of the long timers 30 & 40 years are kind of ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I will embark on a new adventure in my life.  I am excited and anxious at the same time.  I had been with Galls for 11 years.  That was a big chunk of my life.  The last three years have been the hardest and the most stressful for me.  When Billy was brought in and Ken was more or less forced to leave is when I became depressed.  Ken was ( Read more... )

This place is trying to break my belief ( Read more... )

Ever since I went to the Steven Curtis Chapman concert Tuesday night I've been thinking about adoption again.  I go through spells where I think about it constantly and then where I don't think about it at all ( Read more... )

This song resonates with me in desperate ways.

I am the sea on a moonless night
Calling falling, slipping tides
I am the leaky, dripping pipes
The endless, aching drops of lights

I am the raindrop falling down
Always longing for the deeper ground
I am the broken, breaking seas
Even my blood finds ways to bleed

Even the rivers ways to run
Even the rain to ( Read more... )

I hate it when Dave penetrates my dreams.  I always wake up with a horrible feeling and it takes a long time for that feeling to leave me.  This morning I was dreaming that he was following me.   He had grey hair and a grey beard (which he probably has by now).  I was trying to meet up with some guy at a concert and Dave stayed right behind me the ( Read more... )