“People throw around the word hero pretty flippantly these days, but today we said goodbye to a hero in the very truest sense of the word. My uncle passed away getting re-certified to jump out of airplanes. He wasn't an adrenaline junky or an adventurer. He was a rescuer. Since 2007, he has put his... Continue Reading →
I was 16. The sun hung bright and felt impossibly near with its heat. The ground appeared to waver, distorting from steam whipping up off of scorched earth. I sat on the edge of the bed of a stranger's red truck (Where I grew up, if a truck bed was opened at a gathering, it... Continue Reading →
Friday, we focus on the sacrifice, the death. Sunday, we celebrate the fulfillment of a promise…of THE promise and the resurrection of Jesus, Who still lives. But what about the day between? What about the day between the grief and the glory? Saturday. Today. This day was a day of confusion, of sorrow, of lost-ness.... Continue Reading →
I feel like, to some very small degree, that I was prepared to live as a widow. People talk about that life. You know when you meet someone, when you marry someone, that at some point one or the other of you is going to live to see the other one die. That made sense... Continue Reading →
In early September, in the darkness that comes between the close of one day and the start of another, Jesse awakened to his new reality. We have been walking and trudging and sprinting and schlepping through the past several months, eyes on one goal ahead of us...Jesse telling others about Jesus with his own mouth.... Continue Reading →
They rest upon my counter gleaming silver, catching light Just an ordinary object in a kitchen, so they seem But those salt and pepper shakers display less than they really mean Arriving in the mail one day with a brightly colored note, "Your Uncle Rodney wanted you to have these", my aunt’s hand once wrote.... Continue Reading →
Before moving to Northwest Houston for Jesse to become the lead pastor at what is now the Church at Cross Lake Before you watch, if you will, extend your hands in front of you with your palms down and clench them into a fist, then try to pick something up with your closed hand. Now... Continue Reading →
March 10, 2016. It's just a date. Maybe it's a significant one to you, maybe not. For us, it was another meaningless day on our calendar until last week. On January 19, we had an MRI and an appointment to review the scans with our oncologist immediately following it. At the end of that appointment,... Continue Reading →
Every now and then, Jesse does something so normal that I almost forget anything has happened. . .almost. It's funny how common words take on new depths as life goes on. Words like "almost", for example. It's almost Christmas. It's almost 2016. It's almost our 14th wedding anniversary. "Almost" indicates one of two things: Anticipation... Continue Reading →
"For all that He has done, for all that He is doing, for all that He'll ever do for us...[We give thanks]." Jesse can read, you guys. And more than that, he can understand what he reads. That is a grace we were not expecting to receive so quickly. We are exceedingly grateful for such... Continue Reading →
Every Little Jot & Tittle 