grace Archives | These Three Remain

27Oct201526Oct2015

He will Not Waste a Single Strand

Erica Hale Faith faith, God is Good, grace, grief, pain 3 Comments

Warp and weft, words for the crossing threads of a weaver’s loom. Warp, running from sky to soil…weft, the length of the distant horizon. I’ve been thinking lately of the One who weaves our lives together, and how He takes those threads and works them into something new, something good. Sometimes, He chooses threads that […]

10Dec201308Jun2017

When You Want to Press Rewind

Erica Hale Faith, Family faith, grace, grief, kids, teens 6 Comments

It’s a strange feeling, standing here in this mostly empty house. It has been nearly 3 years, but it still feels like home. It’s hard, renting out the place that once was your home. Hard to let it go and hope that another loves it half as much as you. What’s harder, though, is the […]

20Nov201326May2016

Shelter

Erica Hale Faith faith, grace, homelessness 3 Comments

We drive past the railroad tracks, scars cut thick through the dirt at the end of some road that I’ve driven past a hundred times, but never seen. The shelter is behind a chain link fence, just a low warehouse like any other and who ever thinks about what those buildings contain? Only in this […]

04Nov201329Jul2014

On Autumn (the dying of the year)

Erica Hale Poetry faith, grace, grief 0 Comment

There is beauty everywhere, in unexpected places, yes even in the spaces where it seems least likely of all. All around me, the leaves are falling. This is a season of dying, of beautiful dying: the colors burn from every tree, they fly like sparks through brisk air scented with woodsmoke. It is beautiful, all […]

21Sep201221Sep2016

A Gift

Erica Hale Dyslexia, Faith, Family faith, grace, hippotherapy, horses, mercy, salvation, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Sometimes God gives you a gift, a special gift just for you to let you know that He knows the desires of your heart and He delights in your joy. The sort of gift that is wrapped up in beautiful paper and tied with curls of brightly colored ribbon, the kind with your name on […]