Forty Plus Miles

          I sit here with a blank screen, just writing thoughts. Nothing is showing up that's worth writing; still I'm writing, just writing. I sit here in the loud around, in the middle of another busy day where something else on a to-do list is being done while I wait. I reflect on past choices, timeless truths and promises, and collect myself in the middle of a valley; one of busy, in between tasks. I sit here as I seek to empty the heavy, the weight of aging, of an ever-challenged margin, and I write.       I can still walk. I can still process, seeing through the fog of all-at-once moments. I am still continuing forward by the grace of God. I sit here with a black and white screen now, one of white background and black writing that shows I'm not held, just heavy; where I'm grateful for this release of busy living, where grace is coming through, and I'm grateful to Jesus for it.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a goo...

             "Just one word." , I think, "Start there." , I continue to consider, starting from the beginning; with just one word. Soon it's two, then three, writing to process and find a healthy outlet. Soon it grows, little by little, as a man takes a walk, making his way through city streets and back to a cul-de-sac where he first began, embracing what he may. It wasn't grandiose, or undeniably memorable, only welcomed to the tired old man as he returns to himself after a visit with family and a long trip; returned before physically and now mentally, much more than before. After reflecting back on the drive there and back not long ago, on his short walk through the small town, then back to home. After his moment of remembrance and gratitude that came, grateful to remember what's good. This nameless fictional man and I share new, share reflections, share gratitude for the grace to remember, and a start to an unknown day a little at a time; and with i...

Days driving. Resilence rising. Grace given. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!

The land rises and falls in our days.  Here we travel on these unknown roads.  Here we hope regardless of changing days.  The land rises and falls in our days.  We hope in the unchanging. We hope in Jesus who sustains.  The land rises and falls in our days. Here we travel on these unknown roads.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! -

          It's sunny outside, and still I feel clouds. It's warm and clear (even after morning fog); and still rain pours down within. So I look past the pleasant atmosphere outside, moving deep into a God-given imagination that reminds me to dream, dream past the nine-to-five I'm at. They walk somewhere on a new world, two explorers with great hopes of new horizons that break past every limitation of the everyday. They dream as they walk, seeing each new discovery with fresh eyes as remarkable and wonderful, adventurous! They walk a new terrain through some old neighborhood that becomes the wild adventures of space in their imaginations. They walk, I walk, and we all see the extraordinary in the ordinary world around us, as fictional characters and I engage a real willingness to see the remarkable again; as we all look through worlds of God-given imaginations that see it all larger than just life.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a go...

       A little expression, to ascension. A word or two, to make it through. A sentence to climb higher, rekindle hope's fire. A little expression today, looking to Jesus to lead the way. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!