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"With all I am, I long to see Your beauty. Just one glance can change my whole perspective… I'm ready. To see You, see You rightly, just as You are To see You in all Your Glory, just as You are… You're beautiful You're beautiful You're beautiful You're beautiful…."   With my eyes closed, I try to calm my mind to see His beauty. There are times in my life when I KNOW I've seen glimpses. In Africa, when the city's lights went out, and the sky exploded in stars, unfazed by our manufactured light. Standing in the downpour spray...

I am sharing an older writing today that showed up as a facebook memory from 2015.  I can't even remember what the issue was that prompted all of my late night worry.  I didn't edit it or rework it.  I left it in raw form because it impacted me today when I re-read it.  When something blesses me that I've written, it basically assures me it was God, not me talking :)    "Longing for Calm" prints can be ordered off my website.  Be blessed today! Amanda   Do you wake up in the middle of the night and can't...

What is the ace you keep up your sleeve?  What is the one thing (or is it even multiple things) you secretly hold on to?  Your safety net, your just in case?  I think there are many reasons we guard these pieces for ourselves. For me, I am facing the reality head on that I have spent years clinging to my ace because I am afraid that playing it will reveal that my hand isn’t actually good enough.

I had a feeling. I knew it was not going to be good news. We were driving down the road when I noticed a dark, new spot on my calf. I called my dermatologist the next morning. I was around eleven when I had my first scary spot taken off. Most of them are nothing…today it’s melanoma.   This is my second battle against the bad skin cancer. My last one was fifteen years ago. At least this time Brad was stateside. Last time he was in China, and it was the loneliest I've ever felt.   I’m not sure...

What does the path your life is on feel like? Has it been a scary, fearful flight through a dark and looming forest? Has it been a leisurely walk through the woods, picking flowers, yet wandering aimlessly? Has it been so focused on a goal that you’re exhausted and sweaty? What season are you in? Winter? Summer? Spring? Fall? Have you found the path that leads to the clearing where you can suddenly see? What was your journey like before you met Him?   How did you find the narrow path that lead to Him?   Did someone invite you...