Small Prayers ~ Stepfamily Tuesday
I walk into the room, and morning light spills soft and glowing across tiled floors and a rug of robin’s egg blue. Pulling back a silky, chocolate comforter and shaking floral sheet, I watch crumbs of food, smuggled into bed after hours, fly through the air like...
Off With Their Heads! ~ Stepfamily Tuesday
It is one of those days when I feel like the Queen of Hearts in Alice In Wonderland. I ready to yell, “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” It is 2:45 in the afternoon and I have been working for two days trying to prepare for out of town guests who will be arriving...
Healing Scars from the Past ~Stepfamily Tuesday
One of the most difficult things to do is live in a stepfamily. Scars on our soul and voices of the past can torment our sleeping and waking hours. All who come into a stepfamily bring with them wounds, and images from the past. Some images are of a family that...
What It Takes To Fit In
I see you, there, and the sunlight warming you – golden and glowing in the late afternoon. Dressed in camo capris, trying to blend in with your surroundings. Trying to be same as all that surrounds you – just trying to fit in. The ravenous hunger to fit...
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