As the sea tide comes into the shore, the sun sits just above the horizon, peeking through clouds, turning the sky golden, and the water silvery-white.

Still be my vision

  • Post category:Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post. A prayer song that gave me words when I had none.

My beautiful, long-haired, brown-and-black cat Tessa sleeps on a pillow on the carpet in a shaft of sunlight.

Tessa and the lion’s den

  • Post category:My Story
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

My finicky and beloved cat Tessa lived for 17 years. She inspired this post one night in 2004 – the year I first found myself in a den with lions that tear people apart.

Map of Europe that shows the western part of the Soviet Union and the places there where I went in 1991.

From the Black Sea to Red Square

Thirty years after I first heard this song - and visited these places - I'm listening again and crying and praying again for the peoples of Ukraine and Russia.

Pink flowers in a green woodsy setting, opening to the sun shining directly above

What about women, Lord?

Two weeks after I asked readers to pray with me for wisdom and strength for a final push, my updated e-book is live! It tells my story of all the ways God answered, from the moment I finally asked him: “What about women, Lord? What do you say about how women in your kingdom relate to other people and to you?”

Silhouette of a woman standing with raised hands in the first light of dawn

Jesus taught us to pray for God

Jesus taught us to pray for God. He taught us: In order to pray powerfully and effectively for people, pray first for the Father to rise up in his own behalf.

Six wooden, little-people figures of children from around the world, standing side-by-side on a plank, arms outstretched, holding hands

Prayer for the Body of Christ

"I would like to share this prayer with you and ask you to pray with me that, as the Bride of Christ, we will continue to learn to 'walk in beauty' with our fellow man and God." - Mark Charles

A double rainbow arches across a wooded mountain and the grassy valley at its base.

Profound forgiven-ness

“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves ... then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”