Lord, Refine Me….on Medium-Low

My friend, author and fellow LITle Krishana Kraft messaged me this morning and asked if I had any prayer requests. Ya’ll will not be surprised to know that my answer was wordy. “…I think God is smelting out my people pleasing tendencies and some pride issues right now. Both very ingrained, deep issues that I…

Out of Control

It’s 3:34 a.m. and I’m blogging. Why up so early, you ask? Well, at 2:50, when my husband’s stupid early alarm started whining, instead of rolling over and slipping right back in dreams, I started worrying. Instantaneously upon awakening, I found myself consumed with anxiety that I might one day develop urinary incontinence. I have no…

Dear Women of the Church

Dear Women of the Church, I owe you an apology. I have sinned against you and I am sorry. Ladies, I have been called to love you and I have failed. Instead, I have idolized you. I have typecast you. I have oversimplified you. Mostly, I have feared you. For the entirety of my fourteen…

Questions

how do you know when you have what you wanted? does it come barging in like thunder claps, shaking your core? or tiptoeing in on silken feet, waking your soul? is love a passion that consumes and devours? or rather a comfort that envelopes and protects? or is it simply the absence of fear?  …

Counting

In your presence, I count      Profile lingered on hungrily      Pretending not to feel      Eyes tracing my face           Hand never left empty for long           Soon satisfied with yours           Sweet sufficiency in touch      …