We are continuing our road trip. We spent the last eight days in Redding, California at a marriage seminar. It was impacting and refreshing. Today we packed up the car and drove to Reno through the Sierra Nevada Mountain range.
Destiny in Bloom
The wind broken lives of Ethiopia’s Jews move my heart in compassion. Destiny in Bloom, a women’s online magazine, published an article of mine about these precious people last week. Find it here.
Desert Dreams
If you know me, then you are aware that I LOVE the desert. Its beauty is singular and magnetic from the heat, sand, lizards, muted colors, and prickles. I am captivated by the creativity and unusual life I find here. I can’t get enough. My husband and I are on a road trip making a…
Praise… Why Do I Withhold it?
Syndicated advice columnist, Ann Landers offered guidance for free to Americans for many years. And she became a legend in her day — a cultural icon — synonymous with modern-day social experts like Dr. Phil or Dr. Laura. Her popularity grew because her readers applied her suggestions and discovered what she proffered was deeper than…
Words to Honor Her
I heard someone say once that poetry is simply the right words placed in perfect order. Well, if you have ever written a poem, you know how challenging and yet fun it is to find the appropriate words and arrange them perfectly to express your heart. Hard work and rewarding work. Here are a few…
About the Royal Wedding…
A European couple gets married — and in a church — honors traditional values and the sanctity of marriage. Yes, the royal wedding was an important statement in our world today. It doesn’t matter what the couple did before or will do after marriage. This event spoke volumes about the significance of sure foundations in…
His Big Shoes
Evangelist, pastor, writer, speaker, and radical life changer, Reverend David Wilkerson, died in a car accident yesterday in Texas. The world has lost a servant and heaven is richer, but how we will miss him. My heart goes out to his wife and four children. May God comfort their grieving and heal their loss. The…
Bruised Reed
Bruised Reed Hollow face pressing desperate upon stones built by Herod. Grief lines penetrating fragile bones, tear stains etching cold outlines. Bruise reed, shivering upon the wall, cast your wound into the sea’s deepest part, salve in its forgiving depths. Justice slept in your seed and awoke to plane the unequal surface square. ~bsw
Texas, Tornadoes, and Trips
One thing about Texas the spring weather can be crazy with cold and warm air fronts clashing and bringing strong wind storms, thunder and rain, hail, and sometimes tornadoes. I have lived here off and on since 1975 and have had to take cover — or the best cover I could — during near-by tornadoes…
Symbol of Love
My beloved is to me a pouch of myrrh which lies all night between my breasts. –Song of Songs 1:13 A few years ago, I wept through a message, delivered at my home church, by Gary Wiens on the above Scripture. I am still moved to tears when I remember his beautiful, life-giving words about the love between the…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 