Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from November, 2014

Dear God. I'm Scared. The End.

"Yellow!?!?"  One of my favorite greetings to hear at the end of the line coming from a sweet lady aged in her years.  It makes me laugh every time, but so thankful that some things never change.  "Well...Derrica-Do...how are you?"   The next thirty minutes we share recipes, talk about the kids, the weather and things to come.   I pray for the right words to say to bring comfort and encouragement for the storm she is facing...in reality the storms we are all facing.  I come up short, my words feeling inadequate.  And then she reminds me of a story and I am reminded.  "You remember how you told me that story about Reid...riding in the car with you when it was raining really hard?"  Her words bring back a simple, sweet little story I had shared with her awhile back.  I was driving with the twins through one of those fierce, pouring rain kind of storms.  Trying to hide my own fear, I became very quiet, gripped the wh...