Read Part One: Girl in Black here. I couldn’t quite believe I was there, sitting across the desk from the owner of the dojo, signing up for karate lessons. I had no great, specific reason why I was doing this; I only knew I had enjoyed my free month of classes, I could use some […]
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Karate and the Kingdom Part 1: Girl in Black
My coworker approached me where I sat at one of the computers at work. “Next month, I get to bring a friend to karate for free, and I’m inviting you,” she said. “You can come two times a week for the whole month, or you can come to one class and if you don’t like […]
He Didn’t Come As a Royal King Should Have
He didn’t come as a royal king should have The High King of Heaven come down to earth Unwelcomed by fanfare or clamoring crowds Quietly humble, His miraculous birth Curled up inside of a womb He’d created No guards to protect this valuable life Only to outcasts His birth was announced By angels and a […]
The Inescapable Presence of Immanuel
Immanuel- the name given the Messiah, the Promised One who would come to earth to rescue His beloved creation from the horrid mess they had gotten themselves into. Immanuel. God with us. No man made religion can offer real closeness with the real God. Always, in the religions man has made up, we make it […]
Why Your Bible is Like a Grapefruit
She sat at our kitchen table, eating half of a grapefruit. I could hear her dentures cutting through the pulp of the tangy fruit as I sat with her, eating my own grapefruit. My mouth puckered as I ate the pink colored triangles drizzled with glistening honey, like evening sunlight gilding a flower. That was […]
Why It’s Good to Give Thanks for Everything – Even Fleas
It was almost too much to bear. They were in the infamous Ravensbruck concentration camp, the worst of all concentration camps, being transferred to more permanent quarters. Corrie had already cried when they first arrived as she had cut Betsie’s long chestnut hair off because of lice, and now this. The two Dutch sisters, Corrie […]