reconnecting

i am returning to this blog after starting a different one. not sure why i started the other one and when i figure out how to get rid of it i will do so.
i have been reconnecting with souls from my past lately. friends with whom i was privileged to journey for a season. students we worked with when we were at ubc, austin and who became dear to us. time has passed. they're lives have taken many different paths and they are in many different places in life.
we have reconnected through facebook. i got on facebook when it first came out because i was working with college students and it was the best way to remind them of meetings, etc. i never dreamed it would reconnect me with so many friends.
i have always been one to try to keep up with my friends. ask any of them and they will tell you i have been sending them Christmas cards (until i lost track of them) and with many i have written letters. i am not sure why it is important for me to keep up with friends who are no longer along my path, but i guess it is my way of keeping them with me. i do love my friends. i do love people.
i am thankful to fb for this gift of reconnecting. and grateful to God for keeping them all in His care.

i live a little life...

i live a little life in a big city and live a good life with a great God. i am content. i am blessed.

long time no write

it has been a while since i last wrote in this blog. so much has happened this summer. i have had to look deep into my soul to find God there. i have been frustrated, stressed, depressed, pained. but, i have known God is with me through every experience. that is good. i am beginning to know communion with Him as i have never known. i am glad for that. thank you God!!!

silence

silence
so hard to achieve living in the city
but God is in the city
if He speaks in the "sheer silence"
when does He speak?
still my mind, my heart, my soul
i want to listen, really listen.
silence

home

i am visiting my parents at their home in north carolina and realizing i think of baltimore as home. we have only been there for 7 mos but it is home. why is that? we have lived other places for much longer. maybe it isn't that baltimore is home but my heart is home and that is where it wants to be. teaching my 4 teenage girls in Bible study, meeting my new neighbors, learning the city through the people who live there, loving our congregation, praying for them daily, working my job to help another church serve God, bringing grace and peace to those who need it. i love doing these things and for now that is baltimore. i never would have imagined it...but God did.
my heart is also pleased to know that my oldest son, adam, is going to be living with us for the next 8 mos while he takes a certification course from hopkins in digital game design. i pray that this will be his bridge to life independence. i will enjoy each and every moment i have with him because i know it will be our last sharing home space. he will be busy and i will not see him much but will cherish each moment.
as i am here i keep taking pictures of my parents. i have this desire to cherish each moment with them. maybe it is because so many of my friends don't have their parents here on earth anymore. i am thankful that they are well and getting along very well. i just want to hold little things close to my heart, such as my momma making apple cobbler, daddy making a fire and tending to it, talks around the kitchen table, watching them bow their heads and thank God before each and every meal. oh how i do love my parents. i hold them deep within my heart.
home is my heart and it is full.

beginnings

Abba, may this blog be for Your glory. may it bring me to the center of my soul where You, O Lord, reside. amen.