by Deb Farris | Dec 30, 2022 | Mental Health, Musings, Pets, Writing
Fear is a waste of time. Perfect love casts out fear that’s why we need a perfect God, but I didn’t always know how to push through my fear to find my way to Him. If fear grabbed hold, I would feel faint, a spinning outside of body kind of faint. Like in the early...
by Deb Farris | Feb 1, 2020 | Devotions
Heart be still to heaven’s sound as the gull’s call greets the day. Joy, water’s ripples ever-widening, beyond all senses, beyond all knowledge, still bears fruit from long years’ past. Love’s rhythm alone shall last. 7 7 5 5 5 5 7...
by Deb Farris | Jun 6, 2019 | Greater Good, Musings
A fall leaves you shaken. Failure is no fun. Frankly, who wants to fall and as a dancer, I did everything possible not to, to the point of hurting my dancing. So in the end, in not wanting to fall, taking every precaution possible not to, I failed. If managed...
by Deb Farris | Jan 26, 2018 | Musings
Old white van parked on the roadside, mud speckled in snow. Marble streaks and tire tracks from window frame could be a photograph. Consider miles traveled through rain and ice, her engine puttering sparks of life as shiny sedans and semi road hogs blast their horns....
by Deb Farris | Nov 4, 2017 | Musings
Just as the whiff of lavender wafted through the air of my bedroom a year ago this week—and I was certain it was her—my mother’s essence had enveloped me as I sat reading the Creation story. In seven days, what was unseen became seen. At the end of Mom’s last...