Frankly, I was an unbeliever. When my husband harvested seeds from a roadside lotus plant a few years ago, I didn’t believe we could really grow it. But I kept my mouth shut as he dug a deep hole, set a plastic garbage can, and planted the seeds in soil weighted with stones in …
Author Archives: Karen
The Possiblities of Loss
For the past 10 years of our 36 year marriage, my husband and I have slept in different rooms. I resisted that for several years, but finally we decided we really had to sleep apart if either of us were to sleep well—I snored, his legs twitched. I cried myself to sleep, pouring out my …
Dream Change
Last week, the devotional took an hour to write. I was done by 10:00 a.m. This week, it’s 11:00 a.m. and I’ve just started writing this sentence. I had a vision last week, though it was changed by the time I got to the middle of the writing. I didn’t know when I started that …