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Frustrated Will

I had a  dream just before I woke up this morning.  It seemed like it lasted forever, although I know that’s never true with dreams.  Somehow they capture in moments what, in “real life”, would take hours or even days to occur.  A little glimpse of...

The Thing About Things…

A whirlwind of activity is flying through my brain – Things to buy. Things to send. Things to decorate. Things to bake. The more I do, the more I need to do – Things to buy. Things to send. Things to decorate. Things to bake. Time is ticking away and...

Creative License

I saw a quote on Pinterest this morning that brought me to tears.  And it wasn’t even an emotional quote, but it stirred up unexpected things inside me and kind of hit me sideways.  In a good way. “I want to make beautiful things, even if no one...

Seventh of Eight

It’s been a week since I left home to come up to Washington.  Tomorrow I leave to head back to Pleasanton. But with all that’s happened in the past week, all the people that I’ve seen, places I’ve been, it could easily seem like it’s been...

Fire, Fragrance, Friendship

The warm glow of the crackling fire that burns in front of me. The warm fragrance of the steaming homemade peppermint mocha made for me. The warm comfort of great friends who always open their home to me when I’m in town. There is something about the combination...

Jumping Off The Stage

“What if I get up there and don’t have one single word to say?” That was my conversation with God in the bathroom just minutes before I went up to talk last night. Because I was about to embark on a new adventure of trust with Jesus.  A place and...