On the way home tonight, I stopped by the car wash. I inadvertently ended up on a dirt road on my way to the funeral home for a coworkers family member’s visitation. I had a coating of red dirt on a dark vehicle that just had to get washed off. When I pulled in to …
Villains and Victors
When I think about the times in my life when I’ve been hurt the most by another person, it’s not the kind of person most people would imagine. It’s not a monster of a person, skulking around in the shadows ready to throw a crowbar into your forehead. No, in my experience it has been …
Sisters By Choice
Mama never had a sister, only two brothers. She was the baby of the family and raised around rough and tumble boys. They were much older when she was born so she grew up following in the footsteps of her dad and brothers, learning things like the mechanical workings of tools. These were things that …
The Collection of Things
Want and need are two things that we begin learning the difference of at a very early age. We learn that we need food and we want certain kinds. The two things, though similar, are distinctly different yet the dissimilarity sometimes has a blurred line. I think back to when I graduated high school. I …
The Battle is Not Yours
Revenge can be so tempting. The urge to hurt those that hurt us can be so overwhelming, especially when people kick us at our most vulnerable. I've been there. I've wanted to have the last ugly word, the last snarly laugh, and the last dig. I've wanted to give people an ounce of the mess …
Why Not?
There are going to be some folks who are in shock when they get to Heaven. There will be people there they never would’ve imagined. People who don’t look like them, maybe people who didn’t even act the way they thought they should act. But that’s the miracle of Jesus. He loves regardless. And so …
All Is Calm
In the still of this early morning on Christmas Eve, I listen to the world around me. Cars whiz past my house every now and then but between that and the furnace, those are the only noises I hear. It's calm. It's quiet. The world is mostly at rest. There is peace in the early …
Christmas’ed Out
Whew!!! For the last few weeks, I’ve been really busy at work planning and executing holiday events. I haven’t had much time to do much else than get ready for holiday lunches and Christmas parades. If I haven’t been working on it, I’ve been shopping for it. This has meant weekends that have flown by …
Faith, Wisdom, and Love
Early this morning around 3:30 a.m., I was startled awake by some sort of noise outside of my bedroom window. In my slumber, I thought that it sounded a lot like someone rattling the screens of the window. I jumped up out of bed and stood silently in the quiet of the bedroom. I listened …
Tender Heart
I have always been a very sensitive person. I don’t know how I got to be this way and I honestly wish sometimes I wasn’t. I can remember hearing a song on the radio or a song in church and the tears would just flow. It’s always been like I feel things more than most …
Messpot Diaries 