Category: TAPESTRY TIME
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SHHH… DON’T SAY IT

I talk too much! I think it is somehow programmed in my DNA. I am prone to speak. Listening is a skill; I am still working on it. I talk to my husband, my children, friends and family. I even talk to myself, when no one is around. Thankfully the walls are not talking back,…
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WHERE ARE YOU, LORD?

Lord, are you there? I remember asking that question as a child. Are You there? Are You real, or a figment of my imagination? When I was about ten or eleven years old, I saw a dead body. I had never seen a dead body before. She was in her early to mid twenties, we…
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OH YES, HE LOVES ME

Why do we stray away from You? Was it intentional? Did I wake up one morning and say to myself, “I will stray from the Lord today”? More than likely, it started off slowly, giving in a little here and little there, gradually drifting away. Lord, sometimes I forget I have an enemy, whose primary…
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HERE WE GO AGAIN…

What’s the point of an argument, Lord? Who wins? Is that the point of the argument? For someone to be victorious? A winner and a loser? Although most arguments begin with a point, I believe as it continues it becomes about winning and losing. Words volleying back and forth and back forth. Beginning by making…
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GOD’S PORTRAIT OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN

A few years ago, in our Sunday school class, the ladies studied out of a book entitled ‘God’s Portrait of a Beautiful Woman‘ by Dorthy Davis. GOD’s Portrait; not A portrait…implying that any portrait will do, not Benny’s portrait, nor is it even my portrait. God’s portrait of a beautiful woman! Would she look like me? Would…
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RUN, BABY, RUN!

When I was around fifteen years old, I spontaneously decided to participate in my school’s track and field sports event. I was not a runner. At the time, I only ever ran if someone was chasing me. I had not taken part in any of the training activities, prior to the games. I didn’t know…
