To my dearest Kaia, I know you long for the letters to make sense, to unite themselves and speak to you. I know each syllable is a battle for you and I see you fighting. By the time you are able to read this well, you will have won the battle. You will have put in the hours of tracing your finger along the page and sounding out each painstaking phonics rule with your brows knit tight and the corner of your lower lip tucked between your teeth. You will have arranged letter tiles, your tiny …
Writing
It Speaks to Me
It's been a long time since I've done a links post partly because I've been busy with my book and haven't been reading as much, but there's some good stuff out there so I resurrected ~It Speaks to Me~ so you'd have a chance to read these too if you missed them among the 180 million blogs in the world. How Culture Affects Our Expectations of Leaders by Sandra Maria Van Opstal for Christianity Today Gender, ethnic, or socioeconomic biases affect how we choose leaders. In his book on Asian …
Let Us Be About Kingdom Come: An Incourage Post
My granddaddy on my father’s side had klan ties. He wasn’t blood related, my dad never knew his real father, and somehow that makes me feel better, as if blood has anything to do with the way we’re blinded by hate and lies and all the separating we do when we make people less than or other. I’ve come to know that blood is the only thing that sets us free but that’s another story. Needless to say, I never really knew him. My dad was born into the dirty south in the 1950s. He was threadbare …
