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I love trees. I crave being around them. It soothes my soul. I love hearing the wind playing in the leaves and seeing how the sunbeams get filtered through the branches in different patterns depending on the weather and the season. It’s comforting and calming to me. And up-lifting. Like a fresh breath of air to my soul, not just ...

Someone was watching her. She could feel it. This invisible companion. This presence in the room.  It didn’t bring discomfort.  It just kind of unsettled her.    What would she do with it? Should she address it?  Or keep ignoring it? Sometimes it tugged on her heartstrings with a wooing hunger she didn’t know where it came from, like a ...

We live in a peculiar time when we are more connected than ever electronically, but also more lonely than ever. News travels faster than lightning. There is so much noise and a constant bombardment of information. We are constantly pulled to the surface and our biggest struggle is to find a quiet place where we can unplug and listen to ...

As a dog person I’ve somewhat learned to “speak dog”. At least I can read my own dogs pretty well and tell when they’re uncomfortable or they’re getting ready to react to something (suspicious objects like umbrellas, strollers or a man in a baseball hat, or a leaf rustling in the wind). Cats are a different story. I do not ...

In our digital culture the beauty standards our generation is bombarded with daily are almost unattainable since they’re not real. Eating disorders, identity confusion and self harming run rampant among our youth. It’s a silent – yet loud – cry of despair. I believe that we as human beings have a God given longing for beauty and glory. It’s really ...

I saw a bumper sticker once that left me uneasy and sort of sad. It awakened me to the skewed view many people have of God and Christianity. It said: “Don’t make me come down there – God”. Sadly, this might be a view of God that even some believers hold subconsciously – that God is like a grumpy, old ...

My heart is an open book. But I haven’t paid attention. Now I’ll actually read it. The words are blurry and jumbled up. I need glasses. Glasses of love. Glasses of compassion. I need really strong glasses. The letters are so small. All piled up in one corner, trying to behave. We have loose tooth T, skinned-knee D, and stubbed-toe ...

Once upon a time there was a girl born in the land of the Midnight Sun, on the longest day of the year. The sun would barely dip beyond the Horizon on the day she was born. She grew up in a loving yet fearful environment (which she later pondered – could that really have been love, since there’s no ...