“Do you take your kids to church?” My breath stopped as I scrambled for an answer. I was standing in the pet store chatting with a very nice former graphic designer who had just helped me obtain a photo of…
A New Nose
Pip just asked God for a “circle nose.” The adult in me says “look out, God might give it to you and how would He do that – YIKE” and then I realized that when we pray like children, He…
When Real Life is Dust and Ashes
There is pain in this world that no words can touch. It slapped me in the face this morning with the news that a fellow photographer had lost her almost-three-year old this week. I searched in vain for words, anything…
Dear God: What in the World?
So when You step in, it becomes apparent that it was You. Because nobody else could have thought of a judge in his seventies with a short fuse and 30 years of experience who would turn down a motion and…
Dear God – I Am a Wife Who Worries About Her Husband
He’s at work today, and there’s a hearing. He said he felt sick about it, sick with fear, worry, shame, that sense of failure and the weight of the world being so heavy on his shoulders. At least I think…