In Moments Like This

”I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.“ John 17:4 ESV The elderly woman opens her eyes, waking from a deep sleep, sensing someone is standing beside her bed. An angel gently touches her hand, waiting with a smile while she orients and pulls herself into a sitting […]

I take in the scenery as Jesus and I walk the path He has chosen for me.  I stop suddenly, the path narrowing with cliffs dropping downward on both sides into what seems to be a bottomless vastness.  My fear of heights freeze me into place. “Why did you stop?” Jesus asks me from where […]

The older woman makes a soft shuffling sound with her feet as she makes her way back to her room and the safety of her chair.  Pain throughout her body makes each step difficult, but she is determined to overcome it. This is her time to meet with God in prayer, and she can’t delay.  […]

Luke 1:26-33 The young mother rocks her baby, singing him softly asleep with a lullaby. The baby’s lashes close and lie softly on His cheeks; His breathing becomes even as he falls deeper into his sleep.   The mother continues to hold Him, not wishing to move for fear of waking the sleeping child. Kissing […]

I walk into Jesus’ presence, feeling weighted down by my spiritual armor that appears worn and faded due to the many dents and dings, as I awkwardly approach Him, dragging my sword of the Spirit behind me and my shield of faith hanging at my side. “Where are you coming from, Child?” Jesus asks me […]

“Emmy! Open it! Open it!”  My young grandson calls me by my grandparent name as he places my Mother’s Day gift on the kitchen counter in front of me.  “Hurry up and open it so I can play with it!” He exclaims excitedly, so proud of the gift he had chosen for me; his honest […]

I step into God’s presence lugging a bundle of broken and shattered pieces I call my life, and lay them at the feet of Jesus.   “Wow, that’s quite a load you’re dragging.” Jesus states quietly, at the same time opening the bundle and dumping all the assorted broken pieces, making a good sized pile. […]

The look of devastation in my nine-year-old grandson’s eyes tore at my heart. Because of a positive covid test I had had early the same morning, we had to cancel his birthday trip to Seattle to visit his cousin and best friend. I had no longer dodged the covid bullet, and it had come at […]

I watched my four year old granddaughter, Aubrey, flop backwards over the chair she had been sitting on, right at this moment, unhappy with the specific directions I had just given her. She decided she would demonstrate how unhappy she was with me and wasn’t about to change her floppy position. Recently, I also have […]

“They’re just flowers.” I thought, as I made my way inside the house after finding out my calla lilies had been trimmed by a family member during a yard work day. Not just the dead calla lilies, but all of them, leaving only the green leaves of the bush. The greatest disappointment about the trimming […]