Two for Love
Waiting at a red light, I start to think about her and wonder if she is thinking of me. Here we are, two women, not all that different, yet a world a part. We’ve both had our share of moments; moments in triumph, shame, joy, melancholy. The sum of those moments has brought us to the state we find ourselves in today. Now we travel from our separate lives to meet at the same place, at the same time for one purpose: love, the love for two wonderful little boys. As I pull into the parking lot of Child and Family Services, I spot her bleach blonde pony tail; she quickly puts out her cigarette and goes inside. At 5-foot-10, I rarely meet women who are taller than me. She ju

Paradoxes of God
There are reasons why Jesus spoke in parables. One is to make it necessary to seek and work to find Him. I have recently been working to reconcile a couple contradictions around the idea of God and Christianity. The first example is the thought that God is more vast than the entire universe–the ENTIRE universe. Not just our solar system, or our one galaxy, but ALL of it. The smarties who study that stuff say there’s hundreds of billions of galaxies. I try to wrap my head around that and then think He knows the number of hairs on my head (Matt 10). What? He knows me better than I know myself, right? And not just me, everyone. How can a God so indefinite also

Be careful what you pray for.
I’ve been saying I need to pray more since I became a Christian. That’s probably what every Christian thinks at some point in their journey. Life is busy and noisy. It’s difficult to find long periods of quiet alone time with God. We are fostering twin 2 year old boys, hoping to adopt them, so you can imagine the craziness that ensues! I’m grateful to be able to stay home with them, but sometimes I envy women who drive to work…in a quiet car…all alone. So when I do carve out some quality time with the Lord, I often find myself praying with intense passion and love. I’m sure part of the reason for that is God motivating me to pray more often, but also