Amy Secrist

Tag: love

  • Some opportunities to love

    Some opportunities to love are tiny and pass beneath our hands unnoticed. Some opportunities to love are great and frighten us into running, unable to look them in the eye. Some opportunities to love are persistent and flow through our days, unyielding, water over rock. I pray to see the tiny meet the great and jump…

  • Thankful

    The littlest one is fifteen months old and he throws fits now. They are classic ones, head thrown backward, back arched, legs kicking and every effort is made to get flat on the floor. He scrunches his face and cries. He pushes out his lower lip. He huffs and humphs. He gets his head on…

  • Have I?

    If I hurl the half-empty bottle into the sink, have I nourished? If I admonish through clenched teeth and growl, have I taught? If I bristle and attack as a defense, have I understood? If I sigh and huff, and bemoan through the house, have a done my work well? If resentment and bitterness ooze…