A Glimpse Beyond

Sometimes when I’m watching my daughter, I get a glimpse of some other Jennifer…an older Jennifer, who is more developed and mature and grown.  It is like a glimpse into the future, or like I am peeking into the window of something I’m not supposed to see yet.  Or...

In Memory of Jasmine

“Maybe the reason for the world is to make us long for home.” ~Matthew West This is Jasmine.  She was – IS – a beautiful little girl from my church community who earned her angel wings last weekend after a long struggle with cancer.  She was only 2 1/2…just a few...

My husband bought a pink house. (Part 2)

I wrote last week about how our house, now gray, has been hiding a bright pink secret for a few years now.  The strange hidden hue spoke to me, as strange things in life seem to with me.  (I’m wondering more and more if perhaps I’m the strange one, since “strange...

Letting Go and Moving On

After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could...