On a Lunchable Restored and a Kindness that Leads to Repentance

On a Lunchable Restored and a Kindness that Leads to Repentance

  Son, you get the Lunchable. Would you like some ice cream too?  Those words cut across every grain of my don’t-back-down, actions-have-consequences, hold-the-line parental instinct. And then some. On the table was an “Uploaded Pizza Lunchable.” Despite the absence of whole food health, these had somehow weasled their way as a field trip lunch tradition. But…

In The Flood: What We Do Understand When God’s Voice Thunders And We Don’t Understand

In The Flood: What We Do Understand When God’s Voice Thunders And We Don’t Understand

PTSD-like, I jolt upright, eyes saucer-wide in midnight’s strobing light. At a single crack, I’m on high alert, as the thunder rolls and the lightening strikes. As the rain pours down, again. Because it used to be that I’d snuggle cozy undercover in a thunderstorm, as the rain poured down. But that all changed last week….