Look for them in the moments…

Christmas with dad I woke up from a strange yet comforting dream today. The message reverberated in my head as I tried to rub the sleep off my eyes. “Look for them in the day to day moments…”Right away, I knew what ”them” was referring to. Them, in the dream meant our loved ones who…

Wintering – Finding rest in a season of quiet

It’s my first ever winter in America. For someone who doesn’t do very well in the cold, it’s not a season that I look forward to. I love fall and spring but winter is another story. We arrived here a few weeks ago when the country was still in the throes of fall. Winter doesn’t…

My Grown Up Christmas List

I’m writing this on the 10th anniversary of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary which claimed the lives of 26 people, twenty of them, children between the ages of seven and eight. To a parent who has lost a child, 10 years feels like a blink of an eye. Imagine losing a son or…