I'm not sure how long it took to get here on Charlie, but from the way the sun shone through the trees, I guessed it was after lunch now. We found the old cabin easily enough, although it had been a few years since I'd been here. Could have been more than a few years. …
A Note from God (at Christmastime)
Dear One, I made the world so that there were sunrises and sunsets, with birds and oceans and lakes and rivers and streams. I made the world so that the deserts would stretch from the east to the west and from north to south; I made the world with cactus and wolves and prairie dogs …
The Gift
As she sat on top of the cliff overlooking the valley, she knew it was the most beautiful day of her life. Two red-tailed hawks glided on a gentle wind-song, and a couple of quail scurried across the brown-tromped dirt. A cactus bloomed, the kind that bloomed in early spring here in the desert, where …
Heart
Bacon sizzled: Finding its way to me Was easy... Peace, it settled deep and soft and warm in my heart as the rooster crowed And sun spilled in -- Lilacs, heavy and purple, they drooped their heads outside the bedroom window and Bees buzzed Singing a song to me as the sun grew higher …
What is Before Us
Many things are before us: Sunsets we have never seen, places we have read about only in books, to be lived in the imagination. But oh, there are places to explore, mountains we have never scaled, and rivers unseen. We have the sunrise to greet us, come morning, and the call of birds at daybreak, …
What They Knew
I am shocked at my lack of patience at times. Things don't happen fast enough for me, things take too long, and sometimes I wonder if I could command the seeds I plant to become tall and ready within a week, I would! Hurry, I tell the car (rather than the individual) who is ahead …
Life is Now
"Life is now," I heard him say, and he said it like it was, indeed, fact. I pondered it over in my head, rolled it over and over, because those three words were powerful. Life is now, not yesterday and certainly not tomorrow. We aren't promised another trip to the ocean or to Texas to …
…and There Were Roses: One More Story
Spring was approaching, and Lewis desperately wanted his roses to bloom in full profusion this summer. He was missing Janice more than usual. Why, he didn't know. She had died years and years ago, before he met his wife. But Janice clung to his heart and to his very spirit, like one of the first …
A Mountain’s Song: Like a Symphony
Just before night extends to the door, the world awakens. It doesn't awaken just anywhere, but it awakens in a part of the world full of beauty and grace. It's a place where mountain meets sky, snow becomes a river, and nature abounds endlessly. In a place tucked into a corner of this great world, …
The Song: A Wedding’s Wish
It was in the middle of summer, not spring, because spring is what many people think about when they think of love and falling into it, with a wedding there on a grassy hill and everything is blooming and new. No, it was hot-summer-July, and Louis was home from the Army on leave. He had …
New Beginnings 