Know-Love-Obey God

A vertical from sea level to where we stand
measures better than 12,000 feet. We begin
at the elevated backbone dividing a continent. Here
a raindrop falls and makes its way
to the Pacific Ocean. Another raindrop landing
just a little bit east takes a very different
course to the Atlantic. Just a small step
in the beginning [...]

Did I hear her right? With the phone at my ear, I felt a familiar excitement; my pulse was already quickening even in the middle of her question.
“Would you lead one of the ensembles at the Women’s Tea?”
I can’t say for sure, but I think I began to drool. Of all things in [...]

We named our second son Ne’eman because we wanted him to be. Ne’eman—it means faithful. (He can truly say, literally, “You want someone faithful? My middle name is faithful!”) Our other sons’ middle names mean kind and generous.
Funny, the one we named Faithful often shows strong in the kindness [...]

January clouds
break
into new
clarity,
new
stability.
Could this be yet
another
“New Me”?
I can
think
again,
and breathe
without
that catch,
and smile
new
lines
into a face
looking up
but this time
not because
I am at rock
bottom
but because
my Rock
was holding
me
all
along.
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(A High Calling Blogs Random Act of Poetry)

Too many times I see the clock show 2:00 a.m. A nervousness burns in my legs, and they twitch at having to hold still under the sheets. My heart beats fast, pumping blood to the lump in my throat. I minimize my frame into a ball and tuck the covers under me, [...]

I am looking back to see what the Lord has done in me, and I look forward to see how He wants me to follow from here. God has taught me much about myself these past several months. Part of what He teaches me, I see in the plumeria.
In Maui, plumeria trees line [...]