When your life depends on it

When your life depends on it

When your life depends on it, trust what you know, not what you feel Less than a second passed between rippings – claws through canvas; teeth through flesh. The powerful jaws of a momma grizzly snapped the ulna and radius in two. A visceral scream preceded...

Don’t say you will be praying for me

Please don’t say you will be praying for me, for crying out loud, just stop. My cavernous need for prayer over the last three years put my name on more prayer lists than there are mosquitoes on my porch. Goodness those prayers strengthened me when I couldn’t drive or...
Where is God when I need Him?

Where is God when I need Him?

A shadow grows above my left shoulder and I can’t breathe. Well I can, but it sounds more like controlled gasping. This is the steepest slope I’ve ever climbed. Not on my road bike, in my life. And I’m suffocating. Where is God when I need Him? Though I haven’t...